【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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Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re...
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Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati...
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Audiovisual synchrony perception for music, speech, and object actions
We investigated the perception of synchrony for complex audiovisual events. In Experiment 1, a series of music (guitar and piano), speech (sentences), and object action video clips were presented at a range of stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) using the
Music, madness and the body: symptom and cure
Building on Sander L. Gilman's exemplary work on images of madness and the body, this article examines images of music, madness and the body by discussing the persistent cultural beliefs stemming from Classical Antiquity that underpin music as medicinal.
A new 17th-century Iberian source of instrumental music
The finding of a new musical source is always exciting. It helps to fill in gaps and bring up new questions to Music History. The recent rediscovery of a new Iberian source for instrumental music is no exception. From the rich musical tradition of the San
N-gram inverted index structures on music data for theme mining and content-based information retrie
Content-based music information retrieval and theme mining are two key problems in digital music information systems, where themes mean the longest-repeating patterns in a piece of music. However, most data structures constructed for retrieving music data
TR-MUSIC - A robust frequency estimation method in impulsive noise
Sinusoidal frequency estimation has been studied for many years. The MUSIC method represents a class of super-resolution methods based on subspace decomposition. However, the MUSIC method has poor performance in impulsive noise environments due to the pre
Permanent confrontations in artistic activism
The present article proposes to discuss the importance and urgency of the artivist actions in the present times, especially with regard to dance. To this end, we use the term hegemony in the terms proposed by the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci, a
Saartjie Baartman, Nelisiwe Xaba, and me: the politics of looking at South African bodies
Dance Artist/Choreographer Nelisiwe Xaba's They Look at Me and That Is All They Think (2006) 'refers to the story of Sara[tjie] Baartman [horizontal ellipsis ] the Hottentot Venus' (2006. 9th Jomba! Contemporary dance experience 2006 programme, p. 7) w
Analysis of the physical development and somatotype of girls and females involved into dancing and g
Purpose: The comparative analysis of the physical development and somatotype of girls and females involved in dancing and gymnastic sports (acrobatic rock and roll, sports aerobics). Material: The study involved 45 girls and females. Group 1 - acrobatic r
Flamenco and emotions: New techniques of Socio-Educational intervention with minors at risk of socia
This paper attempts to explain the use of dance, especially the flamenco dance, as a useful tool for to promote the identification of emotions in children at risk of social exclusion with the aim of contributing to the personal and social development of t
Genre transformation in the musical folklore (Shamil's Prayer case)
This article uses the Caucasian dance Shamil's Prayer to examine the complex processes of genre transformation of folklore verbal and musical texts in the North Caucasus region. The dance was improvised by a Kumyk harmonist in the early twentieth century
Towards effective content-based music retrieval with multiple acoustic feature combination
In this paper, we present a new approach to constructing music descriptors to support efficient content-based music retrieval and classification. The system applies multiple musical properties combined with a hybrid architecture based on principal compone
Evidence for tempo-specific timing in music using a web-based experimental setup
Perceptual invariance has been studied and found in several domains of cognition, including those of speech, motor behavior, and object motion. It has also been the topic of several studies in music perception. However, the existing perceptual studies pre
Gendering the semitone, sexing the leading tone: Fourteenth-century music theory and the directed pr
Johannes, the eleventh-century glossator of Guido of Arezzo, is the earliest of several theorists who indirectly associate the semitone with cross-dressing, using a Vergilian citation about Phrygian men. Taking this as a starting point, this paper explore
Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlates with damage to the parahippocampal cortex
Music is typically a pleasurable experience. But under certain circumstances, music can also be unpleasant, for example, when a young child randomly hits piano keys. Such unpleasant musical experiences have been shown to activate a network of brain struct
Musical countertransference experiences of music therapists: A phenomenological study
This study investigated the experience of musical countertransference, defined as a musical reply in response to feelings, thoughts, images, and physical reactions evoked by the client. Eight psychodynamically oriented music therapists of various psychody