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Worship Music As Spiritual Identity: An Examination Of Music In The Liturgy Among Black And White Adventists In The United States From 1840 To 1944, David A. Williams Sep 2019

Worship Music As Spiritual Identity: An Examination Of Music In The Liturgy Among Black And White Adventists In The United States From 1840 To 1944, David A. Williams

David Williams

The Topic

This study examined Black and White Seventh-day Adventist music in the liturgy in the United States from 1840 to 1944. Little scholarly attention has been given to the development of Adventist liturgical practice, the function of music in the liturgy, and the effect of music upon the spiritual identity. This study utilized liturgical history, ritual studies, musicology, and liturgical theology to derive and compare the spiritual identity fostered through music in the liturgy by these ethnic groups. This study considered both the shared and distinct spiritual identities of Black and White Adventists, as cultivated by the music in …


“And Those That Are Fools, Let Them Use Their Talents”: Looking At The Power Of Music In The Hands Of Shakespeare’S Wise Fools Apr 2019

“And Those That Are Fools, Let Them Use Their Talents”: Looking At The Power Of Music In The Hands Of Shakespeare’S Wise Fools

Noelle Conder

This paper explores Shakespeare’s fools and their use of music. Throughout Shakespeare’s plays, he developed two different styles of fools: the “natural fool” based on the acting style of Will Kemp, and the “artificial fool” based on the acting style and personality of Robert Armin. Armin also helped influence Shakespeare’s increased use of music through his career. Artificial fools use music for two main purposes; either as a shield from the negative repercussions of their words, or as a weapon to more effectively persuade their audience to something. As a shield, the fools make use of the cultural connection between …


Semantic Priming Of Familiar Songs, Sarah K. Johnson, Andrea R. Halpern Jan 2019

Semantic Priming Of Familiar Songs, Sarah K. Johnson, Andrea R. Halpern

Andrea Halpern

We explored the functional organization of semantic memory for music by comparing priming across familiar songs both within modalities (Experiment 1, tune to tune; Experiment 3, category label to lyrics) and across modalities (Experiment 2, category label to tune; Experiment 4, tune to lyrics). Participants judged whether or not the target tune or lyrics were real (akin to lexical decision tasks). We found significant priming, analogous to linguistic associative-priming effects, in reaction times for related primes as compared to unrelated primes, but primarily for within-modality comparisons. Reaction times to tunes (e.g., "Silent Night") were faster following related tunes ("Deck the …


Musical Expertise Has Minimal Impact On Dual Task Performance, Gianna Cocchini, Maria Serena Filardi, Marcela Crhonkova, Andrea R. Halpern Jan 2019

Musical Expertise Has Minimal Impact On Dual Task Performance, Gianna Cocchini, Maria Serena Filardi, Marcela Crhonkova, Andrea R. Halpern

Andrea Halpern

Studies investigating effect of practice on dual task performance have yielded conflicting findings, thus supporting different theoretical accounts about the organisation of attentional resources when tasks are performed simultaneously. Because practice has been proven to reduce the demand of attention for the trained task, the impact of long-lasting training on one task is an ideal way to better understand the mechanisms underlying dual task decline in performance. Our study compared performance during dual task execution in expert musicians compared to controls with little if any musical experience. Participants performed a music recognition task and a visuo-spatial task separately (single task) …


Levels-Of-Processing Effects On "Remember" Responses In Recognition For Familiar And Unfamiliar Tunes, Esra Mungan, Zehra F. Peynircioğlu, Andrea R. Halpern Jan 2019

Levels-Of-Processing Effects On "Remember" Responses In Recognition For Familiar And Unfamiliar Tunes, Esra Mungan, Zehra F. Peynircioğlu, Andrea R. Halpern

Andrea Halpern

We investigated the effect of level-of-processing manipulations on "remember" and "know" responses in episodic melody recognition (Experiments 1 and 2) and how this effect is modulated by item familiarity (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, participants performed 2 conceptual and 2 perceptual orienting tasks while listening to familiar melodies: judging the mood, continuing the tune, tracing the pitch contour, and counting long notes. The conceptual mood task led to higher d' rates for "remember" but not "know" responses. In Experiment 2, participants either judged the mood or counted long notes of tunes with high and low familiarity. A level-of-processing effect emerged …


Dynamic Aspects Of Musical Imagery, Andrea Halpern Jan 2019

Dynamic Aspects Of Musical Imagery, Andrea Halpern

Andrea Halpern

Auditory imagery can represent many aspects of music, such as the starting pitches of a tune or the instrument that typically plays it. In this paper, I concentrate on more dynamic, or time-sensitive aspects of musical imagery, as demonstrated in two recently published studies. The first was a behavioral study that examined the ability to make emotional judgments about both heard and imagined music in real time. The second was a neuroimaging study on the neural correlates of anticipating an upcoming tune, after hearing a cue tune. That study found activation of several sequence-learning brain areas, some of which varied …


Introduction To The Neurosciences And Music Iv: Learning And Memory, Andrea Halpern Jan 2019

Introduction To The Neurosciences And Music Iv: Learning And Memory, Andrea Halpern

Andrea Halpern

The conference entitled "The Neurosciences and Music-IV: Learning and Memory" was held at the University of Edinburgh from June 9-12, 2011, jointly hosted by the Mariani Foundation and the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, and involving nearly 500 international delegates. Two opening workshops, three large and vibrant poster sessions, and nine invited symposia introduced a diverse range of recent research findings and discussed current research directions. Here, the proceedings are introduced by the workshop and symposia leaders on topics including working with children, rhythm perception, language processing, cultural learning, memory, musical imagery, neural plasticity, stroke rehabilitation, autism, …


Attraction To Sad Music: The Role Of Imagery, Absorption, And Rumination, Emery Schubert, Andrea R. Halpern, Gunter Kreutz, Sandra Garrido Jan 2019

Attraction To Sad Music: The Role Of Imagery, Absorption, And Rumination, Emery Schubert, Andrea R. Halpern, Gunter Kreutz, Sandra Garrido

Andrea Halpern

Previous studies have identified links between attraction to negative emotion in music with the traits of absorption and rumination. However, no studies have examined the possible interdependencies and influences of these traits. We sought to determine whether a cognitive processing path that leads to attraction to sad music could be identified. We argued that auditory imagery might be an interesting competency to add to the investigation because of the links between imagery and absorption. Participants completed validated surveys measuring the three target cognitive measures, as well as a Like Sad Music Scale. Mediation analysis revealed that absorption mediated imagery in …


Mccandless.Jpg, Gr Mccandless Dec 2018

Mccandless.Jpg, Gr Mccandless

Dr. Greg McCandless

No abstract provided.


Freudian Angel, Barry J. Mauer Jan 2018

Freudian Angel, Barry J. Mauer

Barry Mauer

An original composition by Barry Mauer.


The Utility Of Sonification.Pdf, Colin St. John Dec 2017

The Utility Of Sonification.Pdf, Colin St. John

Colin St. John

Sonification is the process of translating data sets into sound or music for artistic, scientific, or practical purposes.  As a tool, sonification can facilitate the interpretation and comprehension of information by perceiving it in a traditionally unusual manner - aurally, through  expressions and variations in volume, pitch, timbre, and more.  However, each of these factors present their own limitations and strengths, due to their nature as well as due to human perception, which must be considered when creating an audio display.  Through sonification, the line between artist and scientist is often blurred, as this field attracts a wide interdisciplinary following …


Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Scottish Culture: Scottish And Scots-Irish Music, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: A majority of the early settlers on the Appalachian frontier were immigrants from Lowland Scotland or from Northern Ireland (the Scots-Irish, who descended primarily from Lowland Scots).


Ballads, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Ballads, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Excerpt: Arguably the most enduring artifacts from the early days of European settlement in Appalachia, ballads are still sung in households and on festival stages along The Crooked Road.


Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Recording Review Of Spain In My Heart: Songs Of The Spanish Civil War, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War. 2014. Written and compiled by Jürgen Schebera. Bear Family Records, book, CDs (7), DVD, BCD 16093.


Recording Review Of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament For Epirus, 1926-1928 And Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece, 1928-1958, Ted Olson Dec 2017

Recording Review Of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament For Epirus, 1926-1928 And Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song And Dance From Northern Greece, 1928-1958, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

Review of Alexis Zoumbas: A Lament for Epirus, 1926-1928 and Five Days Married & Other Laments: Song and Dance from Northern Greece, 1928-1958


"Does Beethoven Have To Roll Over? Not If We Flip Him!” Paper For Session: “Who’S Afraid Of High Culture?”, David B. Dennis Oct 2017

"Does Beethoven Have To Roll Over? Not If We Flip Him!” Paper For Session: “Who’S Afraid Of High Culture?”, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

No abstract provided.


Development Of The Processfolio: Promoting Preservice Music Teacher Reflection Through Authentic Assessment., Jason M. Silveira, Julie Beauregard, Tina Bull Sep 2017

Development Of The Processfolio: Promoting Preservice Music Teacher Reflection Through Authentic Assessment., Jason M. Silveira, Julie Beauregard, Tina Bull

Julie Beauregard

The purpose of this study was to determine what impact an authentic assessment tool (i.e., a processfolio) would have on our music education Master of Arts in Teaching degree program. We conducted a case study at our university with the music education Master of Arts in Teaching student cohort to detail the development and initial implementation of the processfolio as a means of reflection in preservice music teachers. Data included participant observation, individual and collaborative note taking, written artifacts from students and faculty, audio/video recordings, and semistructured interviews. Findings indicated (a) processfolios became a lens through which …


Michael H. Kater, "Carl Orff Im Dritten Reich," Vierteljahrshefte Für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (January 1995): 1-35., David B. Dennis Sep 2017

Michael H. Kater, "Carl Orff Im Dritten Reich," Vierteljahrshefte Für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (January 1995): 1-35., David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

A review of Michael H. Kater's article, "Carl Orff im Dritten Reich." Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 43, 1 (January 1995): 1-35.


Beethoven At Large: Reception In Literature, The Arts, Philosophy, And Politics, David B. Dennis Sep 2017

Beethoven At Large: Reception In Literature, The Arts, Philosophy, And Politics, David B. Dennis

David B. Dennis

A detailed analysis of Beethoven's influence on global culture.


Music | 10-96850, James Q. Mulholland May 2016

Music | 10-96850, James Q. Mulholland

James Q. Mulholland

Music Part Number: 10-96850 Price: $1.85 Voicing: SATB Lyrics By: Thomas Moore Music By: James Q. Mulholland Commissioned by the American Choral Directors Associationfor the 1997 National Junior High Honors ChorusNancy Cox, Director


The Routledge Companion To Philosophy And Music, Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania Mar 2016

The Routledge Companion To Philosophy And Music, Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over fifty entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six clear sections:

  • general issues
  • emotion
  • history
  • figures
  • kinds of music
  • music, philosophy and related disciplines


The Philosophy Of Music, Andrew Kania Mar 2016

The Philosophy Of Music, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it. Like any ‘philosophy of X’, it presupposes a knowledge of its target area of study. However, unlike philosophy of science, say, the target of philosophy of music is a practice most people have a significant background in, merely as a result of being members of a musical culture. Music plays a central role in many people's lives. Thus, as with the central questions of metaphysics and epistemology, not only can most people quickly grasp the philosophical questions music raises, they tend …


Silent Music, Andrew Kania Mar 2016

Silent Music, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Most discussions of the nature of music begin with the vague notion that it is the art of sound. The next step is usually to argue that though sounds may be necessary for music, they are not sufficient, since there are sonic arts other than music, most notably linguistic performance arts, such as poetry and drama. However, at some point the issue of silence inevitably comes up. Most theorists want to allow the possibility of musical silence, that is, silence that is part of a musical work or performance, though this seems to require rejecting the necessity of sounds for …


Platonism Vs. Nominalism In Contemporary Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania Mar 2016

Platonism Vs. Nominalism In Contemporary Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Ontological theories of musical works fall into two broad classes, according to whether or not they take musical works to be abstract objects of some sort. I shall use the terms 'Platonism' and 'nominalism' to refer to these two kinds of theory. In this chapter I first outline contemporary Platonism about musical works—the theory that musical works are abstract objects. I then consider reasons to be suspicious of such a view, motivating a consideration of nominalist theories of musical works. I argue for two conclusions: first, that there are no compelling reasons to be a nominalist about musical works in …


Piece For The End Of Time: In Defence Of Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania Mar 2016

Piece For The End Of Time: In Defence Of Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Aaron Ridley has recently attacked the study of musical ontology—an apparently fertile area in the philosophy of music. I argue here that Ridley’s arguments are unsound. There are genuinely puzzling ontological questions about music, many of which are closely related to questions of musical value. While it is true that musical ontology must be descriptive of pre-existing musical practices and that some debates, such as that over the creatability of musical works, have little consequence for questions of musical value, none of this implies that these debates themselves are without value.


Definition, Andrew Kania Mar 2016

Definition, Andrew Kania

Andrew Kania

Much of the time most of us can tell whether, and which of, the sounds we are currently hearing are music. This is so whether or not what we are listening to is a familiar piece, a piece we have not heard before, or even music from a culture or tradition with which we are unfamiliar. In cases where we are unsure, or initially mistaken in our judgment, we will often change our opinion based on further information. This near-universal agreement suggests that the concept of music is one shared by different people, and has boundaries which we are implicitly …


J.S. Bach, Suite For Violoncello Solo, Performed On Mandola, Lee Bidgood Dec 2015

J.S. Bach, Suite For Violoncello Solo, Performed On Mandola, Lee Bidgood

Lee Bidgood

My arrangement of this iconic piece for mandola, an interpretation project that emerged from my work leading a mandolin orchestra at ETSU. This particular recording was facilitated by the discovery of an instrument donated to our department, a 1920s Gibson mandola. This fabulous instrument gave me the voice with which I could articulate the way I heard this piece, one that I have turned over in my head and hands since I was in high school.


Marshall Digital Scholar - Music Collection: Access And Preservation, Thomas L. Walker Ii Dec 2015

Marshall Digital Scholar - Music Collection: Access And Preservation, Thomas L. Walker Ii

Thomas Walker

This presentation discusses how music collections are handled at Marshall University and inside of Marshall Digital Scholar.


Music: General, Sheridan Stormes Aug 2015

Music: General, Sheridan Stormes

Sheridan Stormes

Sheridan Stormes' contribution to Magazines for Libraries, 23rd Edition.


Sound Recordings, Works For Hire, And The Termination-Of-Transfers Time Bomb, David Nimmer, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Sound Recordings, Works For Hire, And The Termination-Of-Transfers Time Bomb, David Nimmer, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.