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Musical tastes of secondary school students' with different cultural backgrounds: a study in the spanish north african city of Melilla
(2010)
The purpose of this study is to analyze the musical tastes of secondary school students in terms of cultural origin, in the Spanish city of Melilla, a North African enclave bordered by Morocco and characterized by its ...
The use of experience-sampling methods to monitor musical imagery in everyday life
(2006)
Little is known about the prevalence or nature of the everyday experience of imagining music in the "mind's ear". An obstacle has been the reliance on indirect, retrospective reporting. Musical imagery research to date ...
Impact of melodic organization on perceived structure and emotional expression in music
(2006)
The traditional view of tonality has been criticized for being static in neglecting the impact of other musical features such as melody, rhythm and loudness on tonality. The purpose of this paper was to investigate a ...
Transportation distances and human perception of melodic similarity
(2007)
This article describes how transportation distances such as the Earth Mover s Distance can be used for measuring melodic similarity for notated music. We represent music notation as weighted point sets in a two-dimensional ...
Studying a creative act with computers: Music performance studies with automated discovery methods
(2005)
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how advanced computer methods may be able to provide new insights into a complex creative activity such as music performance. The context is an inter-disciplinary research ...
Melodic similarity as a determinant of melody structure
(2007)
This paper presents an approach to the analysis of melodic similarity as a determinant of melody structure, which has been applied successfully as a computational system of analysis for the prediction of segmental structure ...
Der Singstreit in humanethologischer Perspektive
(2008)
Traditionen gesungener Wortgefechte sind von zahlreichen voneinander unabhängigen Kulturen in der ganzen Welt bekannt. Ethnographische Quellen über mehr als 20Singstreit-Traditionen, unter anderem auch moderne subkulturelle ...
Perception and performance of aksak metres
(2006)
In this paper different aspects of the fast odd metres found in the Balkan (aksak) are studied. Comparing their temporal characteristics with thresholds of rhythm perception, it is shown that the basic regular unit is ...
Audience responses to a live orchestral concert
(2006)
A sample of concertgoers attending a concert of orchestral music was asked to give ratings of the performance during the interval. Analysis of the data suggested that listeners with higher levels of formal musical training ...
Musical elements in human infants cries: In the beginning is the melody
(2009)
Crying is the earliest sound production of human infants on their long way toward language. Here, we argue that infants' early crying contains melodic constituents for both musical and prosodic structures. This view ...