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A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period Open
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The academisation of popular music in higher music education: the case of Norway Open
With a hundred years (1912–2012) of Norwegian master's and doctoral theses written within the field of music as a backdrop, this article reports from an extensive study of the academisation of popular music in higher music education and re…
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This study aimed at determining whether adolescents and young adults use music as an agent of consolation when dealing with daily sorrow and stress. We furthermore tested whether three aspects of music listening, i.e., the music itself, it…
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Aesthetic Emotions Across Arts: A Comparison Between Painting and Music Open
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Electronic and experimental music: pioneers in technology and composition Open
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How much do the majority of people value music, and can or should that level of value be reflected in music’s economic value? The dramatic decline in the economic value of recorded popular music in the 21st century has prompted much debate…
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Application of Music Artificial Intelligence in Preschool Music Education Open
AI teaching is an important part of Internet + education and intelligent education, and also an inevitable trend of the times. Through the automatic language and language sense recognition processing technology, the robot can sense the lif…
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The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between music preference and music education, informal influences (attending classical music concerts and musical theatre productions) and familiarity of music. The research incl…
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A Probe into the Integration of Traditional Music Culture in Vocal Music Teaching in Colleges and Universities Open
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Music and Language Open
This review presents a highly selective survey of connections between music and language. I begin by considering some fundamental differences between music and language and some nonspecific similarities that may arise out of more general c…
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Ancient tragedy, yet modern music: musical compositions in the classical performances (1921–39) Open
This contribution aims to analyse the role of music in the revival of Greek theatre that characterized twentieth-century Italy. In particular, it explores and compares the music composed for INDA productions between 1921 and 1939. From the…
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Geography and film music: Musicology, gender, and the spatiality of instrumental music Open
Film and music are key concerns in human geography. But rarely has film music been considered. Here, the scores of James Horner (1953–2015), one of the most successful Hollywood composers of recent decades, are used to explore future direc…
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Introduction Listeners in Music History: Studying the Evidence Open
This themed issue focuses on the study of listeners in history. The articles address the personal responses to music of ‘ordinary listeners’ – that is, people whose experiences of music are recorded in personal documents and third-party de…
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Music Emotion Recognition: Intention of Composers-Performers Versus Perception of Musicians, Non-Musicians, and Listening Machines Open
This paper investigates to which extent state of the art machine learning methods are effective in classifying emotions in the context of individual musical instruments, and how their performances compare with musically trained and untrain…
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EmotionBox: A music-element-driven emotional music generation system based on music psychology Open
With the development of deep neural networks, automatic music composition has made great progress. Although emotional music can evoke listeners' different auditory perceptions, only few research studies have focused on generating emotional…
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An Enactive Approach to Learning Music Theory? Obstacles and Openings Open
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The Female Voice in American Musical Theatre (1940-1955): Mary Martin and the Development of Integrated Vocal Style Open
This study examines the changing manner of female vocalisation in the American Musical (1940-1955) through the development of the integrated singing techniques of Mary Martin, an icon of American Musical Theatre. It suggests that the vocal…
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This article proposes a virtual reality-based management system for vocal music instruction. Additionally, this article proposes an improved algorithm for automatic vocal main melody extraction. The pitch saliency function calculation meth…
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Process theories have identified empathy and contagion as mechanisms by which music may induce emotions and recent studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscience have started to examine these hypotheses. After showing how music listening…
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Music Pluralism, Music Realism, and Music Archaeology Open
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Why Live Music Matters: Implications from Streaming Music Festivals in the Chinese Indie Music Scene Open
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a new form of live music – streaming music festivals – has been popularised in China. With a particular reference to the Chinese indie music scene, this article critically examines the changes that streaming m…
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Musical backgrounds and musical identity development in pre-service music education and primary education students: a narrative study Open
This study examined Finnish first-and second-year music education major students and primary education students who participate 25-credits minor subject studies in music, childhood and adolescent musical experiences and musical paths. The …
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Optimization of Multimedia Computer-aided Interaction System of Vocal Music Teaching Based on Voice Recognition Open
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Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students Open
The classical music sector faces an urgent challenge as increasing numbers of performance graduates struggle to establish themselves as full-time professional musicians. In part, this situation relates to narrow higher music education curr…