【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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Relational IBL in classical music
It is well known that many hard tasks considered in machine learning and data mining can be solved in a rather simple and robust way with an instance- and distance-based approach. In this work we present another difficult task: learning, from large number
A semantic web ontology for context-based classification and retrieval of music resources
In this article, we describe the MX-Onto ontology for providing a Semantic Web compatible representation of music resources based on their context. The context representation is realized by means of an OWL ontology that describes music information and tha
The music experience questionnaire: Development and correlates
The authors introduce the Music Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), a self-report measure of individual differences in reactions to music. In analyses of responses in a derivation sample of 211 undergraduates and a replication sample of 105 undergraduates, sc
Learning outcomes of two approaches to multicultural music education
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of multicultural music instruction on classroom learning outcomes. Fifth-grade children (10-11 years of age; N = 170) from four schools were randomly assigned to one of two instructional treatments: musi
Thoughts on an empirical approach to the evolutionary origins of music
ONE YEAR AGO WE PUBLISHED a review article in Music Perception surveying and summarizing the empirical literature relevant to the evolutionary origins of music. Seven pieces commenting on our review have appeared in the present issue. In this reply we dis
Kathoey Sub-culture and Ronggeng Dance at the Orak Lawoi Pelacak Festival in Southwest Thailand
This article focuses on the Orak Lawoi (semi nomadic sea people) in Phuket and Ko Sireh islands and their biannual ritual celebration called Pelacak, celebrated for three days during the full moons in May and October. During this celebration, sea-gypsy co
How to Design Experiments in Animal Behaviour 4. How Do Bees Estimate the Distance Flown?
This article describes simple experiments that show that honey bees estimate the distance they have flown, by means of 'optic flow', i.e., the extent of image motion experienced by their eyes. The estimated distance is then communicated to the bees at h
Past, Present, Future: A Program Development Project Exploring Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS)
This program development project integrated dance/movement therapy concepts and Dr. Joy DeGruy's Post traumatic slave syndrome (PTSS) theory, with the goal of helping African American adolescents in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood understand, explore an
'It's my dream come true': experiences and outcomes of an inclusive dance talent deve
There are few opportunities for young disabled dancers to develop their talents, and even fewer studies investigating their experiences of such opportunities. The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives and outcomes of an inclusive talent develo
A new incremental and comprehensive approach to preschool dance education
The article describes the new technique of teaching the basics of choreography to 3 to 6 years old children using the methodology of Russian classical ballet school, modern ballet rhythmoplasty and authors' many years teaching experience. The article pro
On the biology and evolution of music
I SUGGEST THAT THE QUESTION of whether music is an adaptation has been overemphasized in recent discussions of the biology and evolution of music, because the subtleties of this question combine with our poor fossil record for musical abilities of extinct
Toward intelligent music information retrieval
Efficient and intelligent music information retrieval is a very important topic of the 21st century. With the ultimate goal of building personal music information retrieval systems, this paper studies the problem of intelligent music information retrieval
Multifractal analyses of music sequences
Multifractal analysis is applied to study the fractal property of music. In this paper, a method is proposed to transform both the melody and rhythm of a music piece into individual sets of distributed points along a one-dimensional line. The structure of
Automatic mood detection and tracking of music audio signals
Music mood describes the inherent emotional expression of a music clip. It is helpful in music understanding, music retrieval, and some other music-related applications. In this paper, a hierarchical framework is presented to automate the task of mood det
Experiencing groove induced by music: Consistency and phenomenology
THERE IS A QUALITY OF MUSIC THAT makes people tap their feet, rock their head, and get up and dance. The consistency of this experience among listeners was examined, in terms of differences in ratings across 64 music examples taken from commercially avail