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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"music listening"”.
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Music-listening systems
When human listeners are confronted with musical sounds, they rapidly and automatically orient themselves in the music. Even musically untrained listeners have an exceptional ability to make rapid judgments about music from very short examples, such as determining the music's style, performer, …
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Music Listening as Therapy
<p>Music is a universal phenomenon and is a real, physical thing. It is processed in neural circuits that overlap with language circuits, and it exerts cognitive, emotional, and physiological effects on humans. Many of those effects are therapeutic, such as reduced symptoms of physical and mental …
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After Silence: Improvised Music, Listening and Environmental Sound
This research concerns the practice of Improvised Music. It was originally prompted by a musical episode that took place in 2007 whilst I was involved in a dance and music festival, organised in Turkey by French choreographer, Yanaël Plumet. During that time in Istanbul, I participated with other …
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Pre-adolescent music listening behaviours on the Cape Flats
This chapter investigates the origin and statement of the problem. It examines the point of departure and theoretical framework for the investigation. The importance of the problem 1s examined. The investigation poses questions which are central to it and proposes a hypothesis for the study. The …
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An empirical investigation into music listening behaviour in the presence of the network effect
… of NEs and their influence on users’ online music listening behaviours. In the first study, a systematic and rigorous approach was adopted to develop an NEs measurement scale. Drawing on social network and social action theories, we developed a novel NEs model with two subconstructs: social …
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The Application of Monroe Beardsley's Theory of Aesthetics to The Structuring of Music Listening Experiences
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Designing a Music Listening Program for the Junior High School General Music Class of Columbia View Intermediate School
Faced with the need for providing a listening program without the assistance of an available curriculum guide in junior high school music for the Reynolds School District No. 7, it was the purpose of this writer to construct a design for a program of instruction in music listening. The suggested …
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THE EFFECTS OF MINDFUL MEDITATION ON STRESS, RESILIENCE, AND WORK-FAMILY-SCHOOL CONFLICT
… of guided mindful meditation compared to a music-listening control group on four stress-related variables: mindfulness, perceived stress, work-family-school conflict, and resilience. Contrary to expectation, both the mindful meditation group (<em>n </em>= 22) and music-listening group …
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Music and its meaning: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of chronic pain sufferers use of music as a therapeutic intervention
… alternative approach to ‘dealing with the pain’: listening to music (Schorr, 1993; McCaffrey & Freeman, 2003; Gold & Clare, 2012). Participants’ self-selected music-listening is a documented therapeutic intervention that offers the potential to improve psychological and physical well-being in …
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Music and suggestion : an exploration of the effects and mechanisms of an arts-based mind-body intervention for pain.
… of arts-based mind-body interventions, such as music and suggestions, in multidisciplinary pain management. However, it is largely unknown how, and for whom, these treatments may be most beneficial. It has been proposed that music and suggestions may be an effective adjunct in pain management …
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Effects of Music on the Pain Response in the Central Nervous System Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The oldest procedure for pain relief has been music. There is abundant behavioural evidence to support music’s pain relieving properties, however, studies to date have yet to investigate music-induced analgesia via imaging. Our first imaging study used thermal stimulation just below pain threshold …
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Working it Out: Examining the Psychological Effects of Music and Exercise and Exploring the Theoretical Background of Health Behaviors
<p>Exercise has been linked to mood benefits, and music may increase these effects. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the psychological effects of music and exercise. Exercise was hypothesized to increase mood more significantly in those who listened to music. Listening to music …
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Teaching General Music through Harmonic Experience in the Seventh Grade at Ritzville, Washington
Prior to the school year 1963-64, general music at Ritzville Junior High School was primarily music listening-oriented. There was an obvious need for a more balanced music program that included singing, playing instruments, creativity, listening, and rhythms to provide the students with a broader …
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Internally and Externally Oriented Perception of Music
… time interact with each other when we listen to music. The goal of this study is to investigate the difference between internally and externally oriented perception of music. Using two different music data sets, we measure internal and external time perception through specifically developed …
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Hypnosis, hypnotizability, memory and involvement in films
… involvement in reading (Baum and Lynn, 1981) and music-listening (Snodgrass and Lynn, 1989) tasks during hypnosis. We predicted a similar effect for film viewing of greater absorption and involvement in an emotional (<em>The Champ</em>) versus a non-emotional (<em> Scenes of Toronto</em>) film …
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The Benefits of Adult Piano Study as Self-Reported by Selected Adult Piano Students.
… were consistent with the findings of other adult music research. Students indicated the existence (yes or no) of each benefit and rated the importance of existing benefits on a scale of 1-10. The category of Skill Benefits was the most agreed upon and highest rated category in the study, with over …
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Instrument identification through a simulated cochlear implant processing system
… sounds, and can cause distortion of music. Although some studies of implanted listeners have demonstrated their limited ability to identify instruments, these results do not suggest whether the sound-processing system or the subjects' physiological state is the limiting factor. In …
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Musical identities and health over the youth-adult transition
This thesis concerns musical identities and how they affect health as young people make the transition to adulthood. The primary focus is on music listening, since this is widely reported to be a key feature of adolescents’ and young adults’ leisure time (Roe 1999; Tarrant, et al 2000). Previous …
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Improving music mood classification using lyrics, audio and social tags
The affective aspect of music (popularly known as music mood) is a newly emerging metadata type and access point to music information, but it has not been well studied in information science. There has yet to be developed a suitable set of mood categories that can reflect the reality of music …
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