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CFI. A Working Hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Il saggio propone un'ipotesi di lavoro per verificare il significato di un'opera d'arte, basandosi sul concetto di 'call for interpretation'. La struttura profonda e il ruolo sociale dell'arte è produrre una richiesta di interpretazione, dato il ...
Gigliucci, Roberto
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Music Biology: All This Useful Beauty [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2014
Some healthy people fail to derive pleasure from music despite otherwise preserved perceptual and reward responses. Such 'musical anhedonia' implies the existence of music-specific brain reward mechanisms, which could provide a substrate for music to acquire biological value.
Clark, Camilla N.   +2 more
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Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The word ukiyo-e comes from a combination of “Ukiyo” , which means “floating world,” and “e” , which means picture or image. So, ukiyo-e offer both a description of the world of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—in particular the pleasures, foods, daily life, and ...
Binns, Alexander
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No-one is Unmusical:Elizabeth, Everyday Cheermongery, and Active Musical Citizenship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Everyday cheermongers spread positive emotion through social contagion. This capability is illustrated here through a portrait of Elizabeth, a ‘Suzuki method’ violin teacher in Edinburgh.
Thin, Neil
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Putting it together and finishing the hat? Deconstructing the art of making art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Contemporary Theatre Review is one of the leading peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of theatre studies. This special issue, ‘The Broadway Musical: New Approaches’, was put together by contributing editors Dominic Symonds and Dan Rebellato ...
Symonds, Dominic
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Understanding Musical Beauty

open access: yesEmpirical Studies of the Arts
An exploratory study was conducted investigating the concept of beauty related to music listening—“musical beauty.” The study implemented an online qualitative questionnaire aimed to evaluate how listeners construe the concept of beauty, the pieces of music considered to be beautiful, and the intrinsic and/or extrinsic features that listeners ...
Fleckenstein, A.M.   +2 more
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From Pythagoras to Johann Sebastian Bach: An Exploration in the Development of Temperament and Tuning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Temperament and tuning are at the core of all music—they are the embodiment of the correlation of music and mathematics in every musical work. In examining the shift from Pythagorean tuning to well temperament, compositional style and philosophy governs ...
Anderson, Molly
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Eduard Hanslick's Formalism and His Most Influential Contemporary Critics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The paper deals with the formalistic view on music presented in Eduard Hanslick’s treatise On the Musically Beautiful, which is taken to be the foundingwork of the aesthtetics of music.
Sreckovic, Sanja
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Lisp, Jazz, Aikido -- Three Expressions of a Single Essence

open access: yes, 2018
The relation between Science (what we can explain) and Art (what we can't) has long been acknowledged and while every science contains an artistic part, every art form also needs a bit of science.
Verna, Didier
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Minding the aesthetic: The place of the literary in education and research. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The article discusses the significance of aesthetic as a mode of cognition and means of social cohesion. It notes the relation of aesthetic knowledge with the perception or intuition, the emergence of such awareness into something durable and the ...
Locke, Terry
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