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Postural entrainment by vocal effort in singing and speech
(2009)
This study assesses the interaction of the postural control system and the production of expressive vocal behavior during speech and singing. In particular, we focus on the head, whose motions have been implicated for both ...
Psychological and physiological influences in chord progression including the prohibitions
(2009)
Harmony is one of three major elements in the music. Harmonics are the basic theory of composition. There are several kinds of prohibitions in relation to the chord progression in the rules of Harmonics. When composers ...
Researching ensemble teachers’ assessment criteria and values from a dialogical theoretical perspective
(2009)
Since the beginning of the 1980s, playing in pop ensembles and rock ensembles has been an integrated part of both Swedish music teacher education and the Swedish national curricula for music. However, there is little ...
Returning to musical universals - Question of equidistant scale
(2009)
It is widely accepted that asymmetries in intervals of the musical scale (i.e., inequalities of the interval steps) serve as “orientation points so that we can know ‘where’ we are in the scale” (Krumhansl, Snyder). This ...
Self-Efficacy of Piano Teachers’ of Specialized Music School
(2009)
The piano teachers from specialized music schools have been often criticized for a lack of psychological and pedagogical competences, i.e. emotional instability, proneness for engendering fear, inability to motivate pupils ...
Serial position effects in a singer's long term recall identify landmarks and lacunae in memory
(2009)
An experienced singer learned Stravinsky’s Ricercar 1, for soprano and small instrumental ensemble for public performance and annotated copies of the score to indicate the location of musical features that she attended to ...
Singing and laughing with those who have advanced dementia - Songs connect Archie & Ethel
(2009)
The purpose of this study was to find ways of making those with dementia happier and to make a DVD based on those findings for use in training programmes with care staff and families. With financial help from the U.K. UnLtd ...
Singing as a form of vocal imitation - Mechanisms and deficits
(2009)
There has been a recent upsurge of interest in the neural and cognitive bases of inaccurate singing, commonly referred to as “tone deafness.” Explanations of this deficit have commonly focused on perceptual and motor ...
Sonic Strokes and Musical Gestures - The Difference between Musical Affect and Musical Emotion
(2009)
Musicological theories traditionally address the expressive powers of music within a framework of signification, in which musical affect is considered as a meaningful musical gesture. Consequently, affect is regarded as a ...
Sparse Multiview Methods for Classification of Musical Genre from Magnetoencephalography Recordings
(2009)
Classification of musical genre from audio is a well-researched area of music research. However to the authors’ knowledge no studies have been performed that attempt to identify the genre of music a person is listening to ...