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Songs Of Change: How Music Helped Spark The Arab Spring Revolutions In Egypt And Tunisia, Brendan Thabo Eprile
Songs Of Change: How Music Helped Spark The Arab Spring Revolutions In Egypt And Tunisia, Brendan Thabo Eprile
Honors Papers
This thesis explores the ways in which music played a role in the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia.
Does Training Enhance Entraining? Musical Ability And Neural Signatures Of Beat Perception, Kira Pinard-Welyczko
Does Training Enhance Entraining? Musical Ability And Neural Signatures Of Beat Perception, Kira Pinard-Welyczko
Honors Papers
Perception of beat and meter is a nearly universal human skill that requires little to no conscious effort. However, the extent to which music training influences this perception in the brain remains unknown. Music performance requires high sensitivity to timing and physical entrainment to external auditory stimuli. Additionally, compared to untrained individuals, musicians show higher performance on a number of auditory and speech tasks, as well as different brain morphology and fiber connections. Beat and meter perception are thought to be subtended by oscillations of groups of neurons at corresponding frequencies. Here, electroencephalography (EEG) was used to examine the magnitude …
Finding Music’S Words: Moses Und Aron And Viennese Jewish Modernism, Maurice E. Cohn
Finding Music’S Words: Moses Und Aron And Viennese Jewish Modernism, Maurice E. Cohn
Honors Papers
This thesis attempts to understand Schoenberg and his opera Moses und Aron as important participants within the philosophical debates of their time, but also to understand that participation as necessarily musical—his music is analogous to, rather than representative of, the surrounding philosophy of his era. The first chapter addresses the broader relevant trends in Jewish philosophy, coming to focus specifically on parallels between Schoenberg and the philosopher Franz Rosenzsweig. It does not attempt to understand Schoenberg as a Jewish philosopher per se. Rather, it explores the ways in which the problems facing Jewish philosophers of Schoenberg’s generation—namely, debates about the …