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The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010 Open
In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal rather than s…
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Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking Open
Creativity can be considered one of the key competencies for the twenty-first century. It provides us with the capacity to deal with the opportunities and challenges that are part of our complex and fast-changing world. The question as to …
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Classical music as enforced Utopia Open
In classical music composition, whatever thematic or harmonic conflicts may be engineered along the way, everything always turns out for the best. Similar utopian thinking underlies performance: performers see their job as faithfully carry…
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Classification of Indian Classical Music With Time-Series Matching Deep Learning Approach Open
Music is a heavenly way of expressing feelings about the world. The language of music has vast diversity. For centuries, people have indulged in debates to stratisfy between Western and Indian Classical Music. But through this paper, an un…
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Emotional responses to Hindustani raga music: the role of musical structure Open
In Indian classical music, ragas constitute specific combinations of tonic intervals potentially capable of evoking distinct emotions. A raga composition is typically presented in two modes, namely, alaap and gat. Alaap is the note by note…
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Neoliberalism and the Musical Entrepreneur Open
In 2012, the flutist Claire Chase, founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble, received a MacArthur Award for her work as an “arts entrepreneur and flutist.” The award's emphasis on Chase's entrepreneurship reflects the growing dem…
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African American music : an introduction Open
Designed for an introductory course in African American music, this title focuses on musical genres & styles, moving chronologically from folk traditions to modern forms. A final section discusses the aesthetics of African American culture…
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Origins of music in credible signaling Open
How did music evolve? We show that prevailing views on the evolution of music — that music is a byproduct of other evolved faculties, that music evolved for social bonding, and that music evolved to signal mate quality — are incomplete or …
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Music information visualization and classical composers discovery: an application of network graphs, multidimensional scaling, and support vector machines Open
This article illustrates different information visualization techniques applied to a database of classical composers and visualizes both the macrocosm of the Common Practice Period and the microcosms of twentieth century classical music. I…
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‘McDonald’s Music’ Versus ‘Serious Music’: How Production and Consumption Practices Help to Reproduce Class Inequality in the Classical Music Profession Open
This article draws on two empirical studies on contemporary engagements with classical music in the United Kingdom to shed light on the ways in which class inequalities are reproduced in practices of production and consumption. It discusse…
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Music therapy for mental disorder and mental health: the untapped potential of Indian classical music Open
Music is a universal human trait. The healing power of music has been acknowledged in almost all traditions of music. Music therapy is moving from a social-science model focusing on overall health and well-being towards a neuroscience mode…
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Music and Emotion—A Case for North Indian Classical Music Open
The ragas of North Indian Classical Music (NICM) have been historically known to elicit emotions. Recently, Mathur et al. (2015) provided empirical support for these historical assumptions, that distinct ragas elicit distinct emotional res…
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Imagined salad and steak restaurants: Consumers’ colour, music and emotion associations with different dishes Open
The aim of the present study was to examine people׳s colour, music and emotion associations with dishes from two imagined restaurants. We conducted an experiment where we asked two study-participant groups to match interior colours, backgr…
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The Effect of Classical Music on Anxiety and Well-Being of University Students Open
Psychological and spiritual effects of music on people have been revealed by various studies and still continue to be investigated. The sound which has existed since the first formation of the universe; and music and music therapy which ar…
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Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity Open
Contents: Preface. Part I Musicological Narratives of Creativity: Approaching the study of musical creativity: musicologies, discourses and others. Part II Creativity in the Iranian Context: Discourses and Structures: Discourses of creativ…
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Behavioural responses of piglets to different types of music Open
Music or other background sounds are often played in barns as environmental enrichment for animals on farms or to mask sudden disruptive noises. Previous studies looking at the effects of this practice on non-human animal well-being and pr…
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The musical body : how gender and class are reproduced among young people playing classical music in England Open
Scholars of western classical music have predominantly studied it as a text and positioned it a site of ‘absolute value’ through which musicians and listeners ‘transcend […] the bodily’ (Johnson 2002). This thesis uses ethnography in order…
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An Independent Psychometric Evaluation of the PROMS Measure of Music Perception Skills Open
The Profile of Music Perception Skills (PROMS) is a recently developed measure of perceptual music skills which has been shown to have promising psychometric properties. In this paper we extend the evaluation of its brief version to three …
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Music preferences with regard to music education, informal influences and familiarity of music amongst young people in Croatia Open
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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Emotional Effects of Live and Recorded Music in Various Audiences and Listening Situations Open
Background: We assume that the emotional response to music would correspond to increased levels of arousal, and that the valence of the music exemplified by sad or joyful music would be reflected in the listener, and that calming music wou…
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Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses Open
In music studies, genre theory has primarily been used to study popular music rather than classical music. This article demonstrates how genre theory can be applied to studying classical music production in order to understand how its valu…
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A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Influence of Timbre on Affect Perception in Western Classical Music and Chinese Music Traditions Open
Timbre is one of the psychophysical cues that has a great impact on affect perception, although, it has not been the subject of much cross-cultural research. Our aim is to investigate the influence of timbre on the perception of affect con…
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Structures in Sound: Analysis of Classical Music Using the Information Length Open
We show that music is represented by fluctuations away from the minimum path through statistical space. Our key idea is to envision music as the evolution of a non-equilibrium system and to construct probability distribution functions (PDF…
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Mental imagery boosts music compositional creativity Open
We empirically investigated the effect of mental imagery on young children's music compositional creativity. Children aged 5 to 8 years participated in two music composition sessions. In the control session, participants based their compos…
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To Love or Not to Love (Western Classical Music): That is the Question (for Music Educators) Open
In this article, I transpose the word "love" for "be" in Hamlet's existential question in his soliloquy concerning life and death penned by William Shakespeare, "To be or not to be: That is the question." Thinking through the ethical imper…
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Performance values - an artistic research perspective on music performance anxiety in classical music Open
Music performance anxiety (MPA) has been studied mainly within the field of psychology and has been defined as a sub-type of social anxiety. Musicians suffering from MPA are commonly referred to individual psychological treatment, but the …
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Evaluation of the Effects of Music Therapy Using Todi Raga of Hindustani Classical Music on Blood Pressure, Pulse Rate and Respiratory Rate of Healthy Elderly Men Open
Several studies have indicated that music therapy may affect cardiovascular health; in particular, it may bring positive changes in blood pressure levels and heart rate, thereby improving the overall quality of life.Hence, to regulate bloo…
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Comparing the aesthetic experience of classic–romantic and contemporary classical music: An interview study Open
Current models of aesthetic experience of music (AEM) have emerged in the recent years capitalizing on evidence from psychology and neuroscience research, thus modeling mainly cognitive and information processes in the brain. However, a la…
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Time-Based Raga Recommendation and Information Retrieval of Musical Patterns in Indian Classical Music Using Neural Networks Open
In Indian Classical Music (ICM) perspective, Raga is formed from the different and correct combination of notes. If it is observed the history of Indian Classical Raga in ICM, the playing or serving each of the ragas has some unique sessio…
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A Bevy of Biases Open
This article is in response to and in broad support of Philip Ewell’s keynote talk, “Music Theory’s White Racial Frame,” given at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, and essay, “Music Theory and the White Racial Frame”…