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Exploring the Musical Taste of Expert Listeners: Musicology Students reveal Tendency towards Omnivorous Taste

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The current study examined the musical taste of musicology students as compared to a control student group. Participants (n=1003) completed an online survey regarding the frequency with which they listened to 22 musical styles. A factor analysis revealed
Paul eElvers   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Co-Structuring of Gesture-Vocal Dynamics: An Exploration in Karnatak Music Performance. [PDF]

open access: yesCogn Sci
Abstract In music performance contexts, vocalists tend to gesture with hand and upper body movements as they sing. But how does this gesturing relate to the sung phrases, and how do singers’ gesturing styles differ from each other? In this study, we present a quantitative analysis and visualization pipeline that characterizes the multidimensional co ...
Pearson L, Nuttall T, Pouw W.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Emergentism and musicology: an alternative perspective to the understanding of dissonance. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In this paper we develop an approach to musicology within the discussion of emergentism. First of all, we claim that some theories of musicology could be insufficient in describing and explaining musical phenomena when emergent properties are not taken ...
El-Hani, C. N.   +2 more
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Creativity and its link to epilepsy

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Creative thinking represents one of our highest‐order cognitive processes, involving multiple cortical structures and an intricate interplay between several cortical and subcortical networks. It results in novel ideas that translate to useful products or concepts. The evolutionary purpose of creativity is therefore apparent, as it advances our
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Phillip L. Pearl
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Eric Clarke and Nicholas Cook, eds. 2004. Empirical Musicology: Methods, Aims, Prospects. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2005
Empirical Musicology is a collection of articles exploring the potential for a greater integration of empirical methods into musicology and music theory.
Johanna Devaney
doaj   +1 more source

Biography and the New Musicology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Traditional musicology has long resisted biographical interpretations in favor of formalistic approaches. While the so-called “New Musicology” has more recently redressed this imbalance by encouraging the contextualization of music, including critical ...
Wiley, C.
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Reflecting on ethno/musicology from an alternative angle: “Lives in Musicology” in Acta Musicologica [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija
This article examines the “Lives in Musicology” column in Acta Musicologica (introduced in 2017 by Federico Celestini and Philip V. Bohlman) as a lens for reflecting on the discipline of musicology.
Marković Tatjana
doaj   +1 more source

Elisabeth Le Guin. 2006. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2007
In early 2006, I did something I had never done before. I sent a musicology book as a gift to a friend. No, to two friends, one a former musicologist who now works as a gambist, the other a former musicologist who now works as a writer.
Suzanne G. Cusick
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