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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"language and music"”.
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The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability
This study investigates the effects of language background (monolingual/bilingual and early/late bilingual exposure), knowledge of a tonal language and music experience on auditory discrimination by employing tone and vowel discrimination tasks. A total number of 8,769 observations were analyzed …
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Relationships between musical and linguistic skills in early development: the role of informal musical experience in the home
Research on the relationship between formal musical training and cognitive abilities has been burgeoning over the last decade, with a specific focus on the relationship between language and music skills. However, a significant gap exists when looking at the start of the developmental path of the …
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The Touching Rooms
… are a place of encounter between the living and the dead. We traverse the stages of grief through memory, dreams and magical realism, through language and music. In this work, I explore how paying attention, the art of seeing and describing, helps us through deep loss. Our daily rituals and …
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Métis or Moniyâw: Explorative stories of decolonizing my Métis identity
… an overview of Métis history, identification, and decolonization, especially written by and for Aboriginal peoples. Using a decolonizing framework of Indigenous métissage (Donald, 2012) – which brings together complex, and nuanced influences to build knowledge – and an autoethnographic …
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Modes of Resistance: Memory, Language and Identity in the Performance of Assyrian Liturgy in Iraq and Beyond
… rite, the Assyrian Church of the East liturgy and music have been the guardian of the Assyrian Christian faith, language and culture for more than a millennium. With the Church’s core activities happening in Mesopotamia, its liturgical music provides additional insight into the history of …
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Cultural identity and Galician folk music
… study is concerned with the roles Galician folk music has played and plays in the promotion of national/cultural identity in the two revivals, the first of which (Rexurdimento) arose towards the end of the nineteenth century and the second (Recuperación) in the mid nineteen-seventies. Events are …
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'n Musikale model van koherensieverhoudings getoets aan die hand van J.S. Bach se Schübler-koraalvoorspele : 'n loodsstudie (Afrikaans)
… seen as one of the key factors in communication and textual interpretation. Text linguistics, as an inter-disciplinary field of study concerning the textuality of texts in conjunction with coherence, can probably be of great importance in current musicology, especially as the problem concerning …
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Music Inspired by the Works of Robert Frost
… gift. As a child, I enjoyed his rhyming schemes and the characteristically simple, beautiful, natural imagery he portrayed in his verses, but the deeper meaning of the words was largely lost on me. As I grew, I would revisit the poems from time to time and would enjoy discovering a subtly hidden …
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Language on music : Beethoven, Mann and the absolute
This dissertation investigates the general use of language on instrumental music. Three types of linguistic usage are identified: the metamusical, the systemic, and the metasystemic. In the first section, various forms of the metamusical - description, attempts at "recreation" and formal analyses …
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Unexpected Accompaniment: Cognitive Mechanisms for Language-Music Mismatch in Time
… Huron 2006). Employing the terms 'anticipation' and 'expectation' interchangeably, these studies emphasize only the temporal sequentiality between elements taking place at different points in time, a relation parallel to the progression of time. In modes of communication where simultaneous events …
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Spot the Odd Song Out: Similarity Model Adaptation and Analysis using Relative Human Ratings
Understanding how listeners relate and compare pieces of music is a fundamental challenge in music research as well as for commercial applications: Today’s large-scale applications for music recommendation and exploration utilise various models for similarity prediction to satisfy users’ …
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Exploring the Influence of Racial Diversity on Church Growth: A Case Study of Buffalo Suburban Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lancaster, New York
… happens in more homogenous congregations, more and more churches are growing that are multiracial. This case study focused on the growth of Buffalo Suburban Seventh-day Adventist Church (BSSDAC), a multiracial church in Lancaster, New York. Data collection was done through focus groups of church …
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Rhythmic perception and entrainment in 5-year-old children
… is an important component of early literacy and many children struggle to master its key elements, such as the ability to hear syllables and rhymes within the speech stream. The hypothesis explored within this study is that since music and language have parallel auditory perceptual mechanisms …
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Julius Otto Kaiser and his method of systematic indexing: an early indexing system in its historical context
… Otto Kaiser (1968–1927) was a special librarian and indexer who developed, in last years of the 19th, and the first years of the 20th, centuries, an innovative method of subject indexing known as systematic indexing (SI). Although Kaiser has long been recognized as a pioneer in the field of …