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Review: 'Improvising Improvisation: From Out Of Philosophy, Music, Dance, And Literature', Aili W. Bresnahan

Aili Bresnahan

This book review attempts to interpret the meaning and value of Gary Peters’ book in a way that is true to the kind of book, an experimental improvisation, that it purports to be. As such, it grapples with the difficulties of evaluating the merits of a philosophical discussion within a book that claims not to be philosophy and case studies in performance that beg the question of whether they accurately exemplify the (non-)philosophy they are meant to support. Despite these difficulties, this review ends with the conclusion that this book does, in fact, convey something essential about the nature of …

Review: Fiddler's Dream: Old-Time, Swing, And Bluegrass Fiddling In Twentieth Century Missouri, Lee Bidgood

Lee Bidgood

No abstract provided.

Czech Bluegrass Media, An Overview, Lee Bidgood

Lee Bidgood

No abstract provided.

Can Your Students Get Jobs? Library Help For Music Students' Career Preparation, Rachel Fox Von Swearingen, Veronica Wells, Marci Cohen

Veronica Wells

Your campus career center may not have the insider knowledge to help music students with their job hunts. Enhance and update your knowledge of industry information, techniques, and resources that support performers, music business professionals, and students pursuing other types of music careers as they enter the job market. Topics covered will include self-promotion for musicians, form contracts, resources for understanding standard contract terms, and locating company profile and industry trend research to identify potential employers and prepare for interviews.

Recent Music Scholarship, Lee Bidgood

Lee Bidgood

Review of Recent Music Scholarship:

The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States, 2nd edition. Ed. Kip Lornell and Anne K. Rasmussen. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Pp. 425, website and acknowledgments, introduction, notes, references cited, additional sources, audiographies, videographies, index.)

Country Boys and Redneck Women: New Essays in Gender and Country Music. Ed. Diane Pecknold and Kristine M. McCusker. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Pp. xviii + 280, introduction, notes, index.)

Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music. By Bill C. Malone. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. x …

Orchestra Machines, Old And New, Jonathan De Souza

Jonathan De Souza

The Speed Of Our Mental Soundtracks: Tracking The Tempo Of Involuntary Musical Imagery In Everyday Life, Kelly Jakubowski, Nicolas Farrugia, Andrea Halpern, Sathish K. Sankarpandi, Lauren Stewart

Andrea Halpern

The study of spontaneous and everyday cognitions is an area of rapidly growing interest. One of the most ubiquitous forms of spontaneous cognition is involuntary musical imagery (INMI), the involuntarily retrieved and repetitive mental replay of music. The present study introduced a novel method for capturing temporal features of INMI within a naturalistic setting. This method allowed for the investigation of two questions of interest to INMI researchers in a more objective way than previously possible, concerning (1) the precision of memory representations within INMI and (2) the interactions between INMI and concurrent affective state. Over the course of 4 …

Cerebral Substrates Of Musical Imagery, Andrea Halpern

Andrea Halpern

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Auditory Imagery And The Poor-Pitch Singer, Peter Q. Pfordresher, Andrea Halpern

Andrea Halpern

The vocal imitation of pitch by singing requires one to plan laryngeal movements on the basis of anticipated target pitch events. This process may rely on auditory imagery, which has been shown to activate motor planning areas. As such, we hypothesized that poor-pitch singing, although not typically associated with deficient pitch perception, may be associated with deficient auditory imagery. Participants vocally imitated simple pitch sequences by singing, discriminated pitch pairs on the basis of pitch height, and completed an auditory imagery self-report questionnaire (the Bucknell Auditory Imagery Scale). The percentage of trials participants sung in tune correlated significantly with self-reports …

A Mechanism For Sensorimotor Translation In Singing: The Multi-Modal Imagery Association (Mmia) Model, Peter Q. Pfordresher, Andrea Halpern, Emma B. Greenspon

Andrea Halpern

WE PROPOSE A NEW FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND singing accuracy, based on multi-modal imagery associations: the MMIA model. This model is based on recent data suggesting a link between auditory imagery and singing accuracy, evidence for a link between imagery and the functioning of internal models for sensorimotor associations, and the use of imagery in singing pedagogy. By this account, imagery involves automatic associations between different modalities, which in the present context comprise associations between pitch height and the regulation of vocal fold tension. Importantly, these associations are based on probabilistic relationships that may vary with respect to their precision and …

Universidad Nacional De Tucuman, Argentina. Master Class, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

No abstract provided.

Piazzolla Da Camera, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Salamanca, Spain, Conservatorio Superior De Salamanca. Master Classes, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

‘…Long Before The Stars Were Torn Down...: The Music Of Bob Dylan And Sam Shepard, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

No abstract provided.

Chatter Sunday Concert Series, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Piazzolla Da Camera. Collaborative Concert, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

No abstract provided.

Fpc, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Collaborative Concert. Piazzolla Da Camera Trio, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

No abstract provided.

Piazzolla Da Camera Cd Release Concert. 2.17.2018, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Utep Professor Releases New Album, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

No abstract provided.

Ktep Radio Interview, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

No abstract provided.

Applying Brain Research To Classroom Strategies, John W. Flohr, Diane C. Persellin

Diane Persellin

Research in the field of neuroscience has exploded in the past decade. The word brain appears in the title of nearly 40,000 books and CDs indicating intense interest in this area of study. What can music educators learn from recent investigations—often termed brain research—to guide music teaching and learning? The following ideas are intended to have broad applications and may inspire you to investigate this fascinating area of literature more thoroughly. While some findings are new, other studies affirm what music educators have previously found to be effective.

The Effects Of Diegetic And Nondiegetic Music On Viewers’ Interpretations Of A Film Scene, Elizabeth M. Wakefield, Siu-Lan Tan, Matthew P. Spackman

Elizabeth Wakefield

Previous studies have shown that pairing a film excerpt with different musical soundtracks can change the audience’s interpretation of the scene. This study examined the effects of mixing the same piece of music at different levels of loudness in a film soundtrack to suggest diegetic music (“source music,” presented as if arising from within the fictional world of the film characters) or to suggest nondiegetic music (a “dramatic score” accompanying the scene but not originating from within the fictional world). Adjusting the level of loudness significantly altered viewers’ perceptions of many elements that are fundamental to the storyline, including inferences …

What Do You Give To A God Who Has Everything? "In The Bleak Mid-Winter", Leslie A. Engelson

Leslie Engelson

Timbral Thievery: Synthesizers And Sonic Materiality, Jonathan De Souza

Jonathan De Souza

Fretboard Transformations, Jonathan De Souza

Jonathan De Souza

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Dr. Cathy McKinney

No abstract provided.

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Dr. Christine Leist

No abstract provided.

Polyeucte, By Paul Dukas., David Procházka

David Procházka

No abstract provided.