【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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Personal orchestra:: a real-time audio/video system for interactive conducting
We present the first multimedia system to conduct a realistic electronic orchestra. Users can control tempo, dynamics, and instrument emphasis of the orchestra through natural conducting gestures with an infrared baton. Using gesture recognition and tempo
Nonlinear phenomena in contemporary vocal music
Complex and multiphonic voice signals of vocal improvisors are analyzed within the framework of nonlinear dynamics. Evidence is given that nonlinear phenomena are extensively used by performers associated with contemporary music. Narrow-band spectrograms
Schoenberg-Hartleben's Pierrot Lunaire: Speech - Poem - Melody - Vocal performance
This work presents detailed examination of the various aspects of the vocal part of Pierrot Lunaire: literary, linguistic, melodic, acoustic, and vocal performance, and their interrelations. An examination of Hartleben's German translation reveals the de
No effects of a combination of caregivers support group and memory training/music therapy in dementi
Objectives To evaluate the impact of a combination of caregiver support group and memory training/music therapy in dementia patients on behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) and caregiver burden compared to a control group. Method Eighteen patient
Linking life and lyric: The Federico Garcia Lorca Course
Diverse print materials and media are readily available to support a varied and engaging curriculum on the lie and works of the Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The content of this monographic course encompasses biography, personal correspondence, a f
Racialized sexualization & agency in exotic dance among women
Through the analysis of two years of ethnographic observations and 40 in-depth interviews with a collective of Black and Puerto Rican exotic dancers (referred to herein as Divine Dancers) who perform exotic dance for other women, this article explores how
Letters of a Relational Dance
The text invites to reflect on performance procedures mediated in four conceptual letters, written as part of the project @body. preexistente, which comprised, in its totality, the creation of videos transmitted and produced in encounters that took place
The Hollywood Dance-In: Abstract and Material Relations of Corporeal Reproduction
This essay asks what the figure of the Hollywood dance-in-a dancer who performed in place of a star prior to filming and who assisted the choreographer in the creation of dance numbers-can reveal about the reproduction of corporeality as an operation that
Gesture, Repertoire, and Emotion: Yiddish Dance Practice in German and Yiddish Literature
Dance plays an important role in Jewish culture, yet it is frequently relegated to the margins of eastern European Jewish performing-arts research. Folk dance documentation is difficult in the best of circumstances, a it Yiddish dance poses a particular c
MUSICALITY, AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT IN THE TEACHING OF CLASSICAL DANCE
Methodology of Classic Dance need music to be an essential part of the education of pupils. Music and Dance are two artistic disciplines closely linked from the very beginning of teaching, so that the academic study may be joined with music through two ma
The effects of music on helping behavior: A field study
Several studies indicate that mood can influence the likelihood of an individual demonstrating instances of helping behavior, and one previous laboratory study has indicated that music can be used to bring about manipulations of mood to such an end. To in
The great tunes of the Hough: Music and song in Alan Garner's The 'Stone Book Quartet'
Although song and music are often elements in children's books, little critical attention has gone into examining their literary uses. Alan Garner's The Stone Book Quartet is an example of four texts for children in which music plays a vital role. The s
Values education in Hong Kong school music education: A sociological critique
This article examines the social development of Hong Kong's cultural and national identity since its return from the UK to the People's Republic of China (PRC) nearly six years ago, focusing on the extent to which Hong Kong students are now inculcated i
Rock art and rock music: Petroglyphs of the south Indian Neolithic
The rock art of Kupgal, south India, represents an archive of images amassed over five millennia. The author works out a first sequence and shows how the Neolithic petroglyph site may have functioned in its landscape-as a ritual locality at which not only
Personality, intelligence, and art
This study looked at the relationship between personality, intelligence, art experience (i.e. art interests, activities, and knowledge), and a test of art judgement. Participants completed the Graves Maitland Design Test (Graves, 1948), an intelligence me