ESCOM 2009: Recent submissions
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Adaptive memory representations of musical tempo and pitch
(2009)Recent studies showed that the perception of extremely shifted versions of familiar pieces of music affects judgements about the original tempo and pitch. This paper aims to give an overview on musical adaptation effects ... -
Tacit tonality - Implicit learning of context-free harmonic structure
(2009)Musical knowledge, like native language knowledge, is largely implicit, being represented without awareness of its complex structures and incidentally acquired through interaction with a large number of samples. Two ... -
Time reproduction of structured auditory events by deaf and hearing subjects
(2009)Congenital deafness affects different aspects of information processing and time perception. In deafness the accuracy of duration judgments seems to be linked to differences in the use of conventional time units, applied ... -
Embodied Metre in Spontaneous Movement to Music
(2009)Listening to music is often associated with spontaneous body movements, frequently synchronized with its periodic structure. The notion of embodied cognition assumes that intelligent behavior does not emerge from mere ... -
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 ... -
Modeling a Melody Recognition Task using a Cohort Network
(2009)Dalla Bella, Peretz, and Aronoff studied the effects of musical familiarity on melody recognition by comparing performance between musicians and nonmusicians in a melody gated-presentation (MGP) task. They identified three ... -
From the vocal gesture to the writing of music
(2009)In the present study I will analyse the multifaceted functions of the external vocal gestures of the chironomical type and their influence on the first trace-forms of music writing : neumes. I will also outline the impact ... -
Groove Experience: Emotional and Physiological Responses to Groove-Based Music
(2009)Theories of music and emotion suggest that subjective affective experience and physiological arousal are elicited by anticipation of musical-structural events. However, little is known about to what extent groove-based ... -
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 ... -
Tension design of contemporary orchestral music in different performances of "Sula" by Helena Tulve
(2009)Cognitive musicology is a psychological domain of music which attempts to proximity several interpretations as notation in a score, analysis, performance, and perception. The previous study of the authors developes the ... -
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 ... -
What makes us like music?
(2009)Why do we like the music we like and why do different people like different kinds of music? Existing models try to explain music preference as an interplay of musical features, the characteristics of the listener, and the ... -
Do absolute pitch possessors have a field independent cognitive style?
(2009)The factors contributing to the development of absolute pitch (AP) are still not fully understood. It seems to be neither completely inherited nor completely teachable. This study tested the hypothesis, that individual ... -
Evidence for strong immediate well-being effects of choral singing – With more enjoyment for women than for men
(2009)Choral singing as a leisure activity is associated with increased well-being effects. It is also known that women engage more often in singing activities than men do. The objective of the study was to investigate how ... -
Health anxiety instead of performance anxiety among opera singers
(2009)Opera singers experience certain work strains; they work as soloists, depend highly on their vocal functioning and have to exhibit a consistent level of superior performance throughout a long career. The literature also ... -
More similarities than differences among elite music students in jazz, folk music and classical genre – Personality, practice habits, and self-rated music-related strengths and weaknesses
(2009)The aim of the study was to investigate a) if music students have a unique personality profile, and b) if music students in different genres differ in practice habits and musical self-image. Participants were music students ... -
Emotional self-regulation through music in 3-8-year-old children
(2009)The current study explored the role of music in children’s emotional self-regulation. Music is shown to be a common and effective way of self-regulating emotions in adolescence and adulthood. It is also widely known that ... -
The contribution of talk to generating flow experience in the music classroom
(2009)People can experience flow whilst taking part in a range of activities such as painting, sport and music and work. A flow state is achieved by balancing high levels of skill and challenge in a cyclical process that involves ... -
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 ...