【Music】Article four: 'Digital music and critical music literacy'
The Society of Music Analysis report indicated that digital music often sits uncomfortably within a curriculum where the main focus is on the non-digi... [more]
【Music】Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea
Music teacher identity is constructed at the intersection between musician and teacher. This study investigated the meaning of music-making among Kore... [more]
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A fuzzy model for optical recognition of musical scores
Optical music recognition aims at reading automatically scanned scores in order to convert them in an electronic format, such as a midi file. We only consider here classical monophonic music: we exclude any music written on several staves, but also any mu
Synchronization of musical words
We study the synchronization of musical sequences by means of an operation defined on finite or infinite words called superimposition. This operation can formalize basic musical structures such as melodic canons and serial counterpoint. In the case of cir
The social uses of the walkman in urban daily everyday life - Or the musical era as element of trans
Nowadays, it is necessary to enlighten the consequences due to the technical innovations, regarding the links maintained with music. The effects from these innovations combine to totally change the relations between the auditor and the music. It is then i
Do you love the one or the other or just disappear ...: On an experience today on French song
What is the meaning of the professional musical pratices in Aimez-vous les; uns les autres ou bien disparaissez... by Juliette Greco, (Universal, 2003) ? This paper gives informations about the different professional roles in this kind of musical producti
A musical communication - A study of the collective practice of techno music, from Alfred Schuetz
This article deals with the collective practice of techno music in a festive situation, First of all, one has to understand how the music takes part in the setting of the rave party, determining its spatiotemporal borders. Secondly, we will move on to the
A sociology of attachments - From a sociology of culture to a pragmatics of the amateur
By focussing on music lovers' practices, this paper aims at providing a verbal account of musical taste as an accomplishment, a situated activity, with its tricks and bricolages, far from any public space of self-justification but cautious to its own fel
Using music as a therapy tool to motivate troubled adolescents
Children and adolescents with emotional disorders may often be characterized by having problems in peer and adult relations and in display of inappropriate behaviours. These include suicide attempts, anger, withdrawal from family, social isolation from pe
What song and dance, cutting and flying, and coming from the north at the same time? Flamenco: a com
According to the Diccionario critico etimologico castellano e hispanico, by Corominas & Pascual (1980: 906), the etymology of flamenco in its meanings of flamingo and 11 music and dance of Gypsy Andalusia is Flemish, native of Flanders because of the supp
Behavioral and neural correlates of perceived and imagined musical timbre
The generality of findings implicating secondary auditory areas in auditory imagery was tested by using a timbre imagery task with fMRI. Another aim was to test whether activity in supplementary motor area (SMA) seen in prior studies might have been relat
Music performance anxiety and occupational stress amongst opera chorus artists and their relationshi
This study explored the inter-relationships among state and trait anxiety, occupational stress, perfectionism, aspiration, and music performance anxiety in a group of elite operatic chorus artists employed full-time by a national opera company. The chorus
Thin ideals in music television: A source of social comparison and body dissatisfaction
Objective: The study investigated the impact of thin idealized images of women as presented in music television, a popular form of entertainment for young people. Methods: A sample of 84 women viewed a videotape containing either appearance music videos (
Melody-based retrieval of music
Nowadays, available music information is increasing rapidly from fast growing digital libraries and the Internet. How to effectively retrieve music data is a challenging task and content-based retrieval of music is a relatively large area. Much work that
A sound education for all: Multicultural issues in music education
Establishing the legitimacy of the arts within the larger school curriculum is a defining issue in arts education. Within the context of this perennial challenge, this article examines two multicultural issues in music education: equal music education opp
Digital libraries for creative communities
Digital library technologies have a great deal to offer to creative, design(1) communities. They can enable large collections of text, images, music, video and other information objects to be organised and accessed in interesting and diverse ways. Ordinar
Music and the global order
Often music is used as a metaphor of global social and cultural processes; it also constitutes an enduring process by and through which people interact within and across cultures. The review explores these processes with reference to an anthropological an