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Consonance and Dissonance of Simultaneous Trichords in Western Music: A Listening Experiment to Test Models of Harmonicity and Roughness

open access: yesPsychological 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 Case for Reproducibility in MIR: Replication of ‘A Highly Robust Audio Fingerprinting System’

open access: yesTransactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2018
Claims made in many Music Information Retrieval (MIR) publications are hard to verify due to the fact that (i) often only a textual description is made available and code remains unpublished – leaving many implementation issues uncovered; (ii) copyrights
Joren Six, Federica Bressan, Marc Leman
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A new approach to onset detection: towards an empirical grounding of theoretical and speculative ideologies of musical performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article assesses aspects of the current state of a project which aims, with the help of computers and computer software, to segment soundfiles of vocal melodies into their component notes, identifying precisely when the onset of each note occurs ...
Bailey, Nicholas   +2 more
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Influence of Music on Cortisol Levels in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review

open access: yesNursing in Critical Care, Volume 31, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Music has been proposed as a simple, non‐invasive intervention to modulate stress responses in patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). Its potential impact on cortisol levels represents a promising approach to mitigating physiological stress in intensive care.
Carmen Fernández‐Álvarez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Rhetoric of the Troubadours

open access: yesMusical Offerings, 2010
The medieval troubadours were no wandering musicians, casually improvising their songs as they strolled from town to town, but trained artists who lovingly crafted their songs to please and woo their listeners. The art of rhetoric deeply affected the art
Mary C. Abraham
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Melodies of the forest: Nature as an improvisational space for shared creative embodiment

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 871-885, April 2026.
Abstract In an era marked by increasing disconnection from nature, innovative approaches to reconnect with the environment are crucial for both ecological and psychological well‐being. This paper explores how natural environments (a deciduous forest of Quebec in the present case study) can serve as an improvisational space for shared creative ...
Antoine Bellemare‐Pepin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Musicology (Only) One of the Humanities?

open access: yesPannoniana, 2020
Today, a general definition of musicology is both precise and imprecise: it is a study of music. This recent scientific discipline was established by Guido Adler in his 1885 paper The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology, although there had been many ...
Ana Popović
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Guest artist recital: James Winn and Greg Neil, April 29, 2001 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This is the concert program of the Guest artist recital of James Winn and Greg Neil on Sunday, April 29, 2001 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Sonata in D Major, Wq.
School of Music, Boston University
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Social transformation through community music projects: A scoping review

open access: yesReview of Education, Volume 14, Issue 1, April 2026.
Abstract This article investigates the hypothesis that music can be a powerful catalyst for social transformation within specific territorial and social contexts. To explore this, a scoping review was conducted, aiming to identify the participants, networks and contexts described in the scientific literature on community music and to critically examine
Noemy Berbel‐Gómez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orientalism and New musicology

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2018
The aim of this paper is to outline the history of the concept of Orientalism in the field of New musicology and to point out that musicological discussions of Orientalism significantly changed disciplinary profile of musicology in the direction of ...
Sanela Nikolić
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