【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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Adults and children processing music: An fMR1 study
The present study investigates the functional neuroanatomy of music perception with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Three different subject groups were investigated to examine developmental aspects and effects of musical training: 10-year-ol
Musical structure modulates semantic priming in vocal music
It has been shown that harmonic structure may influence the processing of phonemes whatever the extent of participants' musical expertise [Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., D'Adamo, D. A., & Madurell, F. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on pho
Vernacular culture and the place of folk music
This paper focuses on an evening event at the Community Centre, Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire, UK in 2001 featuring a group called The Chase, performing folk music and dance from France and other European countries. It raises a series of issues concerning th
Music composition by interaction between human and computer
This paper aims at constructing a music composition system that composes music by the interaction between human and a computer. Even users without special musical knowledge can compose 16-bar musical works with one melody part and some backing parts using
Don Juan de Austria and the venetian music trade
A recently discovered document sheds new light on the musical patronage of the Spanish royal family in the late Renaissance, and on the international music trade based in Venice. Don Juan de Austria, Philip II's half-brother, ordered the Spanish resident
Refugee children and body politics. The embodied political self and dance movement therapy
This article looks at the link between social exclusion and migration, in particular for children. It highlights the impact that being a refugee may have on one's sense of self. Beyond the concept of acartesian self, our working model suggests a dialogic
Extraversion in women with fibromyalgia as a predictor of better prognosis: an intervention model in
This study examined the relationship between extraversion, the ability to identify emotions in observed movement and quality of life (QoL), among women with and without fibromyalgia (FM). The sample was 50 adult women. Participants were asked to fill out
Description and evaluation of a dance/movement therapy programme with incarcerated adolescent males
This article describes and evaluates the effectiveness of a dance/movement therapy (DMT) programme to improve self-restraint skills, a predictive factor of recidivism, of adolescent males incarcerated in Non-Secure Placements (NSP). Three adolescent males
The somatic education perspective in the curriculum of primary and secondary school: dance and power
Dance as a mandatory discipline presents tensions regarding the mismatch between dance knowledge and other hegemonic knowledge at school. This text discusses problems faced by a dance teacher during the establishment of a curriculum for the discipline of
Dance/Movement Therapy in Cross-Cultural Practice: Fostering Assertiveness with Torture Survivors
A U.S. dance/movement therapist's report on case histories of three adult African survivors of human rights abuse, this narrative addresses approaches taken to foster assertiveness following exposure to torture and trafficking. The author points to dilem
Music therapy as a tool for assessing hand use and communicativeness in children with Rett syndrome
A six-year-old girl with Rett syndrome was assessed in a multi-disciplinary specialist therapy clinic and aspects of her responsiveness and developmental potential were found in the music therapy assessment. Functional hand use, eye-referencing, motivated
Adolescent boys' use of Emo music as their healing lament
Emo music is one avenue through which God can begin or continue a process of healing found through connectedness, sharing, and understanding. God can use songs of lament to bring awareness of pain. Emo music can also offer an environment for the suffering
Automatic identification of music performers with learning ensembles
This article addresses the problem of identifying the most likely music performer, given a set of performances of the same piece by a number of skilled candidate pianists. We propose a set of very simple features for representing stylistic characteristics
'Madama' Margaret of Parma's patronage of music
Margaret of Parma [Margherita d'Austria, Marguerite de Parme, Margaretha von Parma] (1522-86) was a notable patron of music. This article examines her patronage of music based on archival documents. Since Margaret and her husband, Ottavio Farnese, lived
Metonyms of modernity in contemporary Syrian music and painting
This essay examines painting and music in modern Syria as cultural practices that give voice to modernist sensibilities. I argue that two important spatial and temporal tropes structure the aesthetics of authenticity in Syrian visual and musical arts: the