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The twentieth-century revolution in string playing as reflected in the changing performing practices of viola players from Joseph Joachim to the present day: a practice-based study [PDF]
, 2008 The aim of this Ph. D. is to investigate string performance practice issues in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century viola repertoires. The study will focus especially on the use of vibrato and portamento, as well as tempo modification and rhythm
Fang, Heng-Ching
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Effects of Classical Music on Behavioral and Physiological Stress Markers in Socially Isolated Prairie Voles. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciSocial isolation contributes to behavioral, physiological, and neuroendocrine dysfunction. In prairie voles, classical music exposure significantly reduced validated anxiety‐ and depression‐related behavioral responses and improved cardiac and endocrine measures as a function of chronic social isolation, with minor sex differences.
Chavez Y +10 more
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The bidirectional role of music effect in epilepsy: Friend or foe? [PDF]
Epilepsia OpenAbstract Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disease that impacts around 70 million individuals globally. Anti‐seizure medications (ASMs) are the first choice for clinicians to control unprovoked epileptic seizures. Although more than 30 ASMs are available in the market, patients with epilepsy (PWEs) still show poor responses to adequate drug ...
Gao S, Gong Y, Xu C, Chen Z.
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Cortical and behavioral tracking of rhythm in music: Effects of pitch predictability, enjoyment, and expertise. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciThis study compares rhythm processing under two conditions—high pitch predictability (tonal music) and low pitch predictability (atonal music)—while keeping the temporal information of the stimuli constant. More predictable pitch is associated with better behavioral rhythm tracking (finger‐tapping) and decreased cortical rhythm tracking, potentially ...
Keitel A +8 more
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Audio-visual concert performances synchronize audience's heart rates. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciPeople enjoy engaging with music. In the current study, we assessed engagement in a live concert setting using synchrony of cardiorespiratory measures. As engagement might be enhanced in a concert setting by seeing musicians perform, we presented audiences with audio‐only and audio‐visual piano performances.
Czepiel AM +5 more
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What Is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?
Music Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 163-187, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The middle section of John Field's Nocturne No. 13 in D minor, published in 1834, towards the end of the composer's life, begins with what appears to be a quotation from the start of the finale of Haydn's Quartet in E♭ major Op. 76 No. 6. Apart from the transposition of Haydn's theme to D major and the use of a different medium, the respective
W. DEAN SUTCLIFFE
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Notation, Performance, and the Significance of Print in the Music of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780)1
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 185-211, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The posthumously published correspondence of the Black British writer, butler, musician, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780) has received extensive critical attention in recent decades, especially because it contributed to opening a space for Black authorship in the Atlantic world.
Rebecca Cypess
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Music Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 43-73, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The Formenlehre (theory of the musical form), inaugurated by Adolf Bernhard Marx after Beethoven's death and witnessed by several treatises at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, has left traces in the writings and works of Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.
Gianmario Borio
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Music‐based interventions for community‐dwelling people with dementia: A systematic review
Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 30, Issue 6, Page 2186-2201, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The majority of people with dementia (PwD) live in the community. Compared to institutionalised PwD, their access to formalised music therapy is limited. Initial works suggest that non‐therapist‐led music‐based interventions (MBIs) may be an accessible and effective alternative.
Lena M. Hofbauer +2 more
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RiCognizioni, 2023 The aim of this paper is to highlight an aspect of Mozart's production that has long been neglected by contemporary musicology: the strong influence of Orientalism in some of the composer's works.
Cecilia Conte
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