ESCOM 2009: viimeksi lisätyt
Aineistot 81-100 / 101
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Designing New learning Environments for Music - Implementing the MobiKid experience
(2009)In 2006-2008 a mobile software application MobiKid for children aged 3-6 was developed to allow children to sing, record and listen to the songs independently at home. They could even forward the recorded songs to be ... -
Personality correlates of music preferences in the Czech Republic
(2009)This study examines the structure of music preferences in the sample of participants from the Czech Republic (n=521), differences in structure of music preferences among various age groups and the associations between these ... -
Measuring music transcription results based on a hybrid decay/sustain evaluation
(2009)Although much work is being done in music transcription research, the evaluation of these techniques is less addressed by the research community. The lack of widely accepted metrics and databases presents an obstacle to ... -
An integrative dual-route model of rhythm perception and production
(2009)An integrative dual-route model of rhythm perception and production is proposed here. Furthermore, an empirical study illustrated in the second part of this paper provides evidence of the existence of two different cognitive ... -
Musical pitch in nonsense syllables - correlations with the vowel system and evolutionary perspectives
(2009)In a first step we present correspondences between the inventories of vowel systems and musical scales across cultures. These correspondences concern an upper limit of roughly 12 elements, a lower limit of 2-3 elements and ... -
Out of time? - Music, consciousness states and neuropharmacological mechanisms of an altered temporality
(2009)Drug-induced altered temporality is a well-known effect of cannabis action that is utilised from musicians and music listeners for music appreciation since the early days of jazz. Cannabis has an influence on timing processes ... -
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” ... -
Music preferences based on audio features, and its relation to personality
(2009)Recent studies have summarized reported music preferences by genre into four broadly defined categories, which relate to various personality characteristics. Other research has indicated that genre classification is ambiguous ... -
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 ... -
Establishing Usability for Interactive Music Applications that Use Embodied Mediation Technology
(2009)This paper proposes a research method to address usability issues in the early stage of development of interactive or collaborative embodied music applications. The central topic is how concepts of usability testing, goal ... -
Absolute pitch and tone language - Two new studies
(2009)Two new studies provide evidence in favor of the hypothesis that absolute pitch is strongly influenced by a speech-related critical period. The first study examined the prevalence of absolute pitch among students in at the ... -
What do Singers Say About the Effects of Choral Singing on Physical Health? - Findings from a Survey of Choristers in Australia, England and Germany
(2009)This paper presents evidence on choral singers’ perceptions of the physical health benefits of choral singing. It is based on a thematic analysis of answers given to a single open question included in a questionnaire survey ... -
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 ... -
The Influence of Music Genre, Style of Singing, and Gender of Singing Voice on Music Preference of Elementary School Children
(2009)Hargreaves’ (1982, 1995) research on childrens’ development of music preference, which led to the hypothesis of “open-earedness”, has often been replicated and initiated empirical studies on different aspects. The presented ... -
Considerations Concerning a Methodology for Musical Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
(2009)Robot technology is increasingly employed in artistic (musical) applications and as modeling tool for the investigation of general cognitive abilities and music related behavior in particular. Apart from the specifications ... -
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 ... -
A military brass band study on Bakhtin - State nation identity and carnival atmosphere in a village
(2009)Communication, dialogue, carnivalesque, military brass band, M.M. Bakhtin, the identity nation-state -
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 ...