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Communicating voice emphasis in harpsichord performance
(2009)
We investigated the means used by harpsichordists to communicate voice-specific melodic emphasis. Twelve harpsichordists were asked to perform a short Baroque polyphonic piece by Frescobaldi (1583-1643) on a harpsichord ...
Mental practice in music memorization - an ecological-empirical study
(2009)
Mental Practice (MP) refers to a complex network of strategies for improving musical performance without physically performing at the instrument. The present study represents an attempt to describe cross-individual differences ...
Movement and the Practice of Meaning in Song
(2009)
This study intends to provide some evidence about the body involvement in the meaning production in song performance. It analyzes body actions that are not basic requirement for sound production, during the elaboration ...
Analysis of Early 20th century Chromatic Modal Music with the use of the Generative Theory of Tonal Music - Pitch Space and Prolongational issues in selected modal idioms
(2009)
The Generative Theory of Tonal Music in its original form (Lerdahl & Jackendoff 1983) applied to music belonging to the Western tonal idiom only. However, during the last decade, theoretical and analytical research has ...
The effect of singing the melody in the practice of the piano
(2009)
The aim of this study was to test a hypothesis that if learners created more precise auditory representation from singing a melody, they could learn piano playing to reach at a higher level of performance. Seven novice ...
The Relationship between Auditory Imagery and Musical Synchronization Abilities in Musicians
(2009)
Musical ensemble performance requires precise action coordination. To maintain synchrony in the presence of expressive tempo variations, musicians presumably anticipate the sounds that will be produced by their co-performers ...
Music-related motor skills in pianists - Predictors of skill acquisition in childhood and of maintenance in adulthood
(2009)
Background and Study Aims: Previous research on musical performance achievement has focused on the overall musical performance and on musical subskills. Two studies were conducted to identify predictors of motor skill ...
Intuitive parenting performance - the embodied encounter with Art
(2009)
Intersubjectivity experiences established between adults and infants are partially determined by the particular ways in which adults are active in front of babies. An important amount of research focuses on the “musicality” ...
Towards a dynamic systems approach to the development of language and music - Theoretical foundations and methodological issues
(2009)
Music and language are considered as distinct auditory systems that serve different communicative uses. From the perspective of infants rather inexperienced with their native musical and linguistic systems, these differences ...