【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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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
AROUND THE IDENTITY OF THE GO-GO DANCER
The artwork Go-go Dancing Platform (1991) created by Felix Gonzalez-Torres leads us to think about some issues present not only in contemporary art, but also in today's society. By creating an artwork in which dance is the main subject, the artist addres
Ghosts in the Bedroom: Embodiment Wishes in Couple Sexuality: Qualitative Research and Practical App
Theories about embodied knowledge have emphasized the importance of familiarity with the socio-physical aspect of sexuality. The present study examines the kind of embodiment knowledge that contributes to the formation of wishes in intimate physical inter
Regarding the Processes of Making Tradition in Romances de ciego: The Woman Dead by Her Lover / The
This paper intends to produce a comparative analysis of 49 oral samples of the kind of chapbook known as romance de ciego and titled The Woman Murdered by her Lover or The Dance. The main goal here is to acknowledge the traditionalizing mechanisms involve
The representation of Louis XIV in the dancing art: from the ballet de cour to the royal ballet
The court ballet as a genre of French musical theater appeared at in the late 16th century. In later years French kings used dancing productions more than once to create their positive social image. But since the adult rule of Louis XIV these performances
The Transient Ideals of the Odissi Body and the Changing Place and Role of Odissi Dancers in History
This article revisits the history of the Odissi dance's formation and development in order to explore the changing ideals of the Odissi body and the transformation of the Odissi dancer's agency, and their place and role in history. I review the trajecto
Exposure to degrading versus nondegrading music lyrics and sexual behavior among youth
BACKGROUND. Early sexual activity is a significant problem in the United States. A recent survey suggested that most sexually experienced teens wish they had waited longer to have intercourse; other data indicate that unplanned pregnancy and sexually tran
Stream segregation algorithm for pattern matching in polyphonic music databases
As music can be represented symbolically, most of the existing methods extend some string matching algorithms to retrieve musical patterns in a music database. However, not all retrieved patterns are perceptually significant because some of them are, in f
Music: a strategy to promote health in rehabilitation? An evaluation of participation in a 'mus
This study illuminates the role and significance of music listening in everyday life for the long-term ill. Twenty-two participants, aged 34-65 from Oslo and Akershus in Norway, were recruited as a strategic sample and took part in eight in-depth intervie
The effects of music tempo and loudness level on treadmill exercise
This study examined the effects of loudness and tempo of background music on exercise performance. A total of 30 volunteers performed five 10-min exercise sessions on a treadmill. The music listened to whilst exercising was either fast/loud, fast/quiet, s
A generative model for music transcription
In this paper, we present a graphical model for polyphonic music transcription. Our model, formulated as a dynamical Bayesian network, embodies a transparent and computationally tractable approach to this acoustic analysis problem. An advantage of our app