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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"music psychology"”.
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Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography
Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its philosophical context. Tone-eurythmy, carried out by performers moving in space and time, makes music …
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Hearing the Film: The Emotional Effect of Sound in Film
… nothing without the accompanying audio, music especially, to give the picture its feeling and emotion. Music in the film subconsciously affects the viewer, whether they specifically listen to it or not. Darth Vader is just a man in a black suit without his musical introduction in the Star …
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Lives and careers in music: a social identity perspective on brass music-making
… presents a qualitative investigation of brass musicians’ identities. It explores the lives and careers of 40 elite musicians through narrative interviews, and of 572 amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals in an online survey. Combining theories from social psychology and music …
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The Roles of Gesture in Piano Teaching and Learning
The experience of engaging with music through listening, teaching and learning would be impossible without a bodily interface, through which movement and music can be physically produced, experienced and understood. Physical gestures form a central part of the communication established between the …
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The Sampling of Bodily Sound in Contemporary Composition: towards an embodied analysis
… crossed, bringing about a reconfiguration of the musical subject. Furthermore, the celebration of the bodily origins of these works complicates notions of recorded sound as disembodied. The analytical methodology developed in this thesis derives from a consideration of approaches in a number of …
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Evoked emotional responses in the performance practices of selected Yorùbá dùndún ensembles
… the communication of emotion through dùndún music of the Yorùbá ethnic group of Nigeria. The two-pronged focus is on (a) the strategies that dùndún performers employ to potentially arouse emotions in their listeners, and (b) the responses elicited in the listeners. The study is situated in …
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Functional Analogies: Hans Keller's Wordless Functional Analysis as a Theory of Musical Comparison
… to commonalities and differences in the flow of music in time. But few musicians and curators make explicit their theories of how musical comparison works in the mind. Writer and broadcaster Hans Keller (1919-1985) was a notable exception. In addition to publishing and lecturing on the topic, he …
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Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: Experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture
… the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation. To explore the cognitive underpinnings of the collaborative process, a series of experimental case studies was undertaken in which expert improvisors performed with an artificial agent. The research connects ecological …
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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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The Human Faculty for Music: What's special about it?
… thesis presents a model of a narrow faculty for music - qualities that are at once universally present and operational in music across cultures whilst also being specific to our species and to the domain of music. The comparative approach taken focuses on core psychological and physiological …
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Aural training at a selected tertiary institution in South Africa, 2015-2019: Student perspectives, motivation and problem-solving strategies
… forms a vital component of conventional music education and practice and has done so for a considerable amount of time, yet it remains a difficult area with regards to student engagement in its practice and application both at school and university level. Apart from extensive scholarly …
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Towards Elucidating Psychological Arousal in Response to Music Theatre
… psychological effects of observing experimental music theatre performance video recording. Experiencing music theatre can evoke a range of aesthetic and psychological emotions in audiences. These include joy, sadness, fear, unease, excitement, and empathy. Immersion in stories and characters can …
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Swinging the Score: Compositional and empirical investigations into the performance of swing and groove rhythms by score-reading musicians
… explores the effect of habitually playing from music notation on classical musicians’ ability to play by ear and produce the jazz phrasing structure known as “swing”. Swing and its relationship to groove are explored from musicological and psychological perspectives, focussing especially on its …
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Performance anxiety in violin playing
… students at the University of Illinois School of Music, and related literatures.
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ImponderableSound: Using infrasonic frequencies within sonic art installations
Imponderable Sound is immersive sonic art sculpture designed for the installation environment that emits infrasonic frequencies with the intention of affecting the human body both internally and externally. Imponderable Sound looks at sensation and the experience of sensation through haptic …
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An analysis of music teacher effectiveness and employment selection criteria
This study sought to improve overall music teacher effectiveness through the selection and employment of effective music teachers. The problem in this study was to identify, from a population of music teachers, effective music teachers who possess personal traits or success criteria that were …
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Experiencing Music
I am exploring the way music alters or enhances the perception of our environment. This creative project allows me to explore and visualize several issues that intrigue me: music (sound), emotion, and visual imagery (film). My goal in developing this topic is to allow others to have an experience …
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