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Causal Analysis of Carnatic Music: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The musicological analysis of Carnatic music is challenging, owing to its rich structure and complexity. Automated \textit{r\=aga} classification, pitch detection, tonal analysis, modelling and information retrieval of this form of southern Indian classical music have, however, made significant progress in recent times. A causal analysis to investigate
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Learning Hierarchical Metrical Structure Beyond Measures [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Music contains hierarchical structures beyond beats and measures. While hierarchical structure annotations are helpful for music information retrieval and computer musicology, such annotations are scarce in current digital music databases. In this paper, we explore a data-driven approach to automatically extract hierarchical metrical structures from ...
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Creativity and its link to epilepsy
Epilepsia 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
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Emergentism and musicology: an alternative perspective to the understanding of dissonance. [PDF]
, 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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Psychological Topics, 2023 Previous empirical studies have suggested that the perceived consonance/dissonance (C/D) of a musical chord depends on its psychoacoustic smoothness (lack of roughness), spectral harmonicity (perceptual fusion), and/or musical familiarity. We tested the
Richard Parncutt +2 more
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A New Approach: The Feminist Musicology Studies of Susan McClary and Marcia J. Citron
Musical Offerings, 2014 One of the currently prevalent analytic approaches in academia is feminist theory and criticism. Its combination with musicology has influenced the field for the past four decades.
Kimberly Reitsma
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Musico-acoustic Depictions of Laminar and Turbulent Flows in Ligeti Piano Etude No. 9 and a Novel Method of Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The relationship between musical material and physical phenomena has become a topic in the musicological literature over the last several decades, particularly concerning elements of the musical system itself, and constructions found in the work of contemporary classical composers such as Gyorgy Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis.
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Musical instruments are indispensable to music traditions worldwide and often made from natural materials derived from species that are increasingly endangered. International trade threatens the survival of some of these species, as addressed by their inclusion in the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...
Silke Lichtenberg +15 more
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Biography and the New Musicology [PDF]
, 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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Current 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
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