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Fantasies of the Dialectical Imagination: a Response to James Davis
Music Analysis, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 369-381, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article responds to the various criticisms raised against my work on the nature and function of music analysis by James Davis in his article ‘Against the New Musical Idealism: Or, Listening for What May Be Otherwise’, Music Analysis, 45/i (2026).
Julian Horton
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The Rhetoric of the Troubadours
Musical 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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Polyrhythm Perception and Production: A Scoping Review
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1561, Issue 1, July 2026.Findings from 64 empirical polyrhythm studies, comprising 96 experiments, indicate that these studies focus on simple ratios and auditory stimuli, and rely on relatively small sample sizes. We conclude that polyrhythmic complexity can be roughly estimated using ratio sum and Farey trees, that tempo influences beat perception within the constraints of a
Patti Nijhuis +3 more
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Orientalism and New musicology
Rasprave 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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MusicSwarm: Biologically Inspired Intelligence for Music Composition
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.Biologically inspired swarms of frozen foundation models self‐organize to compose complex music without fine‐tuning. By coordinating through stigmergic signals, decentralized agents dynamically evolve specialized roles and adapt to solve complex tasks.
Markus J. Buehler
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.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
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Commentary on Huovinen's "Varieties of Musical Empiricism"
Empirical Musicology Review, 2006 Erkki Huovinen’s “Varieties of Musicological Empiricism” provides a valuable analysis of some of the theoretical predicaments raised by pursuing an empirical musicology.
Eric F. Clarke
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Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
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Nursing 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
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Melodies of the forest: Nature as an improvisational space for shared creative embodiment
People 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
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