ESCOM 2009: Recent submissions
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The Effects of Melodic Grouping and Meter on Eye Movements during Simple Sight-Reading Tasks
(2009)This study concerns the processes of eye movements during simple sight-reading tasks, concentrating on the processing of melodic groups separated by larger intervals and the effects of metrical placement of such groups. ... -
JamMo - Developmentally designed software for children’s mobile music-making
(2009)Mobile learning is one of the most recent branches in educational research. In contrast to traditional classroom learning, mobile learning extends outside the classroom, allowing mobility and flexible interaction between ... -
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 Meaning of Redundancy for Opera Choristers - an investigation of musical identity in the context of job loss
(2009)This study looks at the impact of job loss for seven professional opera choristers. The individual aspects of such change are not always addressed by traditional methodologies. Motivated by these concerns, this study takes ... -
Towards new social dimensions for children's music making - JamMo as a collaborative and communal M-learning environment
(2009)Children’s collaborative music making has recently gained a lot of interest in the field of musical development and learning. Mobile learning (M-learning) is a relatively new field of educational research and so far there ... -
Formal Concept Analysis of Musicians' Awareness for Musical Expression
(2009)This paper proposes a logical framework that visualizes musicians' conceptual structures that are acquired in skill communication processes for musical expression as rhetoric. Generally, these conceptual structures are ... -
Verbal effect on memorisation and recognition of Wagner’s leitmotifs
(2009)This study aims to investigate the different listening experiences of Richard Wagner’s leitmotifs with and without verbal (external) information provided about the leitmotifs, their meanings and the librettos of the work. ... -
An approach to Children’s singing between Forty to Fifty Months Old
(2009)In early childhood, the first vocal attempts follow the general contours of the target melody. Those attempts gradually improve, turning into a more accurate performance both in melodic shape and tonal stability. The aim ... -
Performing in concert and in rehearsal - a comparison using audio, video and movement data
(2009)As a musician it is clear that a concert performance involves a specific engagement. Both the physical attitude and the musical expression change through the interaction with the public. However, the mechanisms involved ... -
The Brain, Memory, and Oral Tradition in Music
(2009)Recent studies of the brain in various subfields have shown that memory is really a type of re-creation—piecing together many elements stored separately. Memory, creativity and their connections have been focal points in ... -
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 ... -
Embodiment in dance - relationships between expert intentional movement and music in ballet
(2009)Embodied music cognition posits that there is a relationship between the emergent properties of a musical piece and the way musicians, dancers and listeners experience them in their body-minds. Musicological analyses assign ... -
Importance of Enharmonic Tone Spelling in Computational Analysis of Tonal Structure
(2009)This paper will discuss various instances of enharmonic spellings of chords. Selected characteristic enharmonic chords in compositions of the tonal period will be presented. The paper's main purpose is to show: (1) the ... -
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 ... -
Personality traits correlate with characteristics of music-induced movement
(2009)Individual factors such as personality are essential for understanding musical experiences and engagement with music. Personality has been shown to be related to musical preferences and experiences, but little is known ... -
Interacting with music mediation technology for hearing impaired - first tests with normal hearing subjects
(2009)Interaction with embodied mediation technology for musical activities is a fairly young but intriguing research domain that requires building and testing of paradigms. In this paper an experimental framework is presented ... -
How the mind is easily hooked on musical imagery
(2009)Recent studies show that nearly all people living in western societies are affected by involuntary musical imagery, or “earworms”. It has been suggested that prior exposure to music is an important predictor of this ... -
Exploring relationships between audio features and emotion in music
(2009)In this paper, we present an analysis of the associations between emotion categories and audio features automatically extracted from raw audio data. This work is based on 110 excerpts from film soundtracks evaluated by 116 ... -
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 ...