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Adolescent boys' use of Emo music as their healing lament

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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

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'Madama' Margaret of Parma's patronage of music

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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

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Metonyms of modernity in contemporary Syrian music and painting

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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

Dancing on ice: mathematics of blade tracings
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Dancing on ice: mathematics of blade tracings

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The art of ice dancing offers many possibilities for mathematical modelling. In this article, we present an artistic model-eliciting activity (MEA) based on skates' blade trajectories formed by skaters' bodily movements which uses mathematical content f

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EXPLORING THE ROLE OF DANCE IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

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The dance_space project is an exploratory workshop with the objective to facilitate improved spatial design outcomes in first year architectural design students. In architecture, certain abstract spatial concepts are difficult to teach through the medium

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A music recommendation system based on music and user grouping

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In this paper, we present a music recommendation system, which provides a personalized service of music recommendation. The polyphonic music objects of MIDI format are first analyzed for deriving information for music grouping. For this purpose, the repre

Heart rate variability with repetitive exposure to music
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Heart rate variability with repetitive exposure to music

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Previous studies of physiological responses to music showed inconsistent results, which might be attributable to methodological differences. Heart rate variability has been used to assess activation of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous syste

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Music-selling in Boccherini's Madrid

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Luigi Boccherini remained for most of his creative life in Madrid, at a court traditionally viewed as peripheral, and in remote places such as Arenas de San Pedro. How this situation determined his musical style, the possibilities of coming into contact w