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Student musicians' self- and task-theories of musical performance : the influence of primary genre affiliation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
165 undergraduate music students studying in Scotland completed a 30-statement Q-sort to describe their self and task-theories of musical performance. Statements reflected the importance of effort, confidence, technical ability, significant others and ...
Hewitt, Allan
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Beat Synchronization across the Lifespan: Intersection of Development and Musical Experience. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Rhythmic entrainment, or beat synchronization, provides an opportunity to understand how multiple systems operate together to integrate sensory-motor information. Also, synchronization is an essential component of musical performance that may be enhanced
Elaine C Thompson   +3 more
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Musical Expertise and Executive Functions in Experienced Musicians

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2023
Extensive music practice has been suggested to enhance the development of cognitive abilities over and above musical expertise. Executive functions (EFs) have been particularly investigated, given their generalizability across different domains and their
Edoardo Passarotto   +3 more
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Hebbian learning with elasticity explains how the spontaneous motor tempo affects music performance synchronization.

open access: yesPLoS Computational Biology, 2023
A musician's spontaneous rate of movement, called spontaneous motor tempo (SMT), can be measured while spontaneously playing a simple melody. Data shows that the SMT influences the musician's tempo and synchronization.
Iran R Roman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The performative pleasure of imprecision: a diachronic study of entrainment in music performance [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
This study focuses in on a moment of live performance in which the entrainment amongst a musical quartet is threatened. Entrainment is asymmetric in so far as there is an ensemble leader who improvises and expands the structure of a last chorus of a piece of music beyond the limits tacitly negotiated during prior rehearsals and performances.
Geeves, Andrew   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Musical timbre: bridging perception with semantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Musical timbre is a complex and multidimensional entity which provides information regarding the properties of a sound source (size, material, etc.). When it comes to music, however, timbre does not merely carry environmental information, but it also ...
Zacharakis, Asterios
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A cultura musical erudita na universidade: refúgio, resistência e expectativas

open access: yesEstudos Avançados, 1993
O ensino musical do Brasil Colônia à atualidade. A decadência dos conservatórios. A música na Universidade: graduação e pós-graduação; publicações; gravações. A performance musical e a pesquisa, dentro e fora da Universidade.
José Eduardo Martins
doaj   +1 more source

The musicality of non-musicians: an index for assessing musical sophistication in the general population.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Musical skills and expertise vary greatly in Western societies. Individuals can differ in their repertoire of musical behaviours as well as in the level of skill they display for any single musical behaviour.
Daniel Müllensiefen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring individual differences in musical rhythm and grammar skills in school-aged children with typically developing language

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
A growing number of studies have shown a connection between rhythmic processing and language skill. It has been proposed that domain-general rhythm abilities might help children to tap into the rhythm of speech (prosody), cueing them to prosodic markers ...
Rachana Nitin   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

A generative model of teachers' thinking on musical creativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article draws on and extends a four-year investigation of creativity in music education with particular reference to the perceptions of six secondary school teachers (Odena & Welch, 2007; Odena, Plummeridge, & Welch, 2005).
Oscar Odena   +5 more
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