Hasil untuk "Literature on music"

M. Abend

Gökay Bilgiç, İsmail Gürkan Metin

The marimba is a percussion instrument whose origins go back centuries and has a wide musical journey from traditional to modern. Nourished by the cultural heritage of Africa and Central America, the instrument has developed structurally and technically over time and has gained an important place in today’s music world. Used as a basic element of rhythm and melody in traditional music, the marimba has found new areas of expression in the works of classical music, jazz and contemporary composers since the 20th century. This study examines the historical origins of the marimba, its place in traditional music and how it adapted to the modern music scene. In this context, the evolution of the instrument from traditional music to modern music genres is detailed. In addition, with the increasing importance given to the marimba in contemporary music, a perspective on the future direction of the marimba is presented. In this way, the transformation process of the marimba from the past to the present has been comprehensively analyzed in order to better understand its place and importance in the world of music. At this stage, a literature review was conducted and descriptive, historical, comparative analysis and document analysis research methods were used to present the subject from a broad perspective.

Xia Yu, Fumei Xu

This study explores the embodied role of musical self-concept in the relationship between academic stress and flourishing among Chinese university music students. Music students face distinctively high levels of academic stress due to intensive practice schedules, performance anxiety, and demanding technical and creative assessments, all of which engage both their physical and psychological selves. Flourishing, defined as the integration of emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing, is essential for positive psychological health. Our sample consisted of 1,767 Chinese university music students. The findings reveal that academic stress has a significant and negative impact on flourishing, consistent with the literature on the harmful effects of stress on well-being. This study further identifies that the embodied nature of musical self-concept, particularly the emotional and communicative dimensions, significantly mediates the relationship between academic stress and flourishing. In contrast, the ability and ambition component did not show a significant mediating effect. The embodied aspects of musical self-concept are evident in the ways students physically engage with their instruments, experience emotions during performance, and integrate their sense of self into their musical practice. These results highlight the importance of cultivating a positive and embodied musical self-concept to counteract the detrimental effects of academic stress and foster flourishing. Interventions aimed at enhancing embodied musical practices and self-awareness may be particularly effective in supporting students’ overall wellbeing. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of the psychological and embodied dimensions that influence the wellbeing of music students, offering practical implications for educational strategies to enhance their flourishing.

Chang-Hong Wu, Yun-Di Zhao, Fu-Qiang Yin et al.

Mental fatigue is an important factor affecting athletes’ performance. Explaining the effects of mental fatigue on sports performance from a theoretical point of view can help us deeply understand the interconnection between mental fatigue and sports performance and conduct effective interventions based on this. Combining the relevant literature in China and abroad reveals that the current academic theories on the mechanism of sports fatigue include motivational control theory, underload theory, neural waste disposal hypothesis, and resource depletion theory. The effects of mental fatigue on performance are reflected in aerobic endurance, sports decision-making, tactical performance, and technical performance. Current coping strategies for mental fatigue include physiological coping strategies based on nutrition (caffeine), odor, and noninvasive neuromodulation techniques and psychological and behavioral coping strategies based on music and positive thinking.

Ondřej Pivoda

Kieran Sheehan

This video article is composed of footage drawn out of Sheehan’s Educational Doctoral Thesis which included four Video-Wonderings that were presented as an Analysis chapter interwoven with written text. The thesis examined the use of Intuitive Movement as a tool for eliciting information about Professional Identities with those working in the helping professions. This article re-reads the Video-Wonderings to think further into the method of using video to intra-act with theory, research activity and researcher self as a mode of ‘becoming with’ information. This piece falls within an Educational Research paradigm building on/with the work of Posthuman arts based feminist new materialists that have used ideas around embodiment as transdisciplinary, diffractive, pedagogic, social research methods.

Larisa P. Karpushina

The purpose of the work is to theoretically substantiate the technologies for the formation of Russian identity among schoolchildren in an ethnocultural educational environment and formulate recommendations for their use. Based on the methods of theoretical analysis, as well as generalization of his own and advanced pedagogical experience, the author proposes some effective forms and means that contribute to the formation of Russian identity among schoolchildren in an ethno-cultural educational environment. The article emphasizes the connection between the concepts of «Russian identity» and «patriotism», provides a definition of the ethno-cultural educational environment, describes the various areas of work on the formation of the Russian identity of students in the course of educational and extracurricular activities, reveals the forms of organization of interethnic and intercultural communication participants in the educational process. The paper al-so considers the means of forming Russian identity in the lessons of literature, mathematics, fine arts, music, and technology. In the conclusions, the author characterizes the process of formation of Russian identity as the process of becoming a socially active person who is able to actively interact in a polyethnic and multicultural society, to carry out interethnic and intercultural communication and cooperation, and from this point of view assigns a special role to gaming technologies and highlights their social function, which consists in the development of social roles by schoolchildren, and, consequently, sociocultural norms, the ability to evaluate their social behavior in terms of the mastered rules of behavior in situations of interethnic and intercultural interaction.

Magdalena Nowicka-Ciecierska

Celem artykułu jest odpowiedź na pytanie, w jaki sposób powieść Thomasa Mann pt. Czarodziejska góra została zaadaptowana na dzieło operowe Pawła Mykietyna z librettem Małgorzaty Sikorskiej-Miszczuk. Ze względu na prymarną funkcję libretta, jaką jest przekazywanie treści, temu elementowi poświęcono najwięcej uwagi, w artykule wskazane zostały jednak również elementy dźwiękowe opery, które w znaczący sposób dopełniają treść słowną. Tekst napisany jest metaforycznym językiem, opiera się na krótkich scenach, w których widoczna jest duża kondensacja treści i fragmentaryczność zauważalna w aluzjach do powieści przefiltrowanych przez wizję autorki. Znamienną cechą tworzywa libretta są pytania, na których opierają się partie dialogowe bohaterów. W libretcie uderza redukcja powieści Manna – mamy do czynienia z tekstem, dla którego powieść była tylko źródłem inspiracji. Autorom koncepcji libretta (Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk i Andrzej Chyra) przyświecała idea, by dopowiedzieć pewne wątki przez Manna nierozwinięte, stworzyć powieściowy apokryf, wydobywający z pierwowzoru to, co niejasne – bez konieczności ścisłego ilustrowania przebiegu narracji. Stawiając na pierwszym planie problemy egzystencjalne, punktem ciężkości i osnową libretta uczyniono uczucia i stany emocjonalne bohaterów, a zupełnie odsunięto wątki polityczne i społeczne obecne u Manna. Między powieścią Manna a librettem dokonano według typologii przekładu intermedialnego Eugenia Spedicato obok redukcji operacji kondensacji, dyfuzji i amplifikacji. Mimo ogromnej redukcji tysiącstronicowej powieści do poetyckiego tekstu liczącego około trzydziestu stron w libretcie Czarodziejskiej góry mamy do czynienia także z operacją zrównania na kilku poziomach: przeniesienia do opery głównych bohaterów powieści, zachowania osi fabuły oraz relacji między bohaterami. Operową amplifikację stanowi między innymi postać Amerykanki, figura-symbol śmierci pod postacią anakondy, rozwinięcie scen miłosnych, odwołania do współczesnych kodów popkulturowych. Nowoczesne podejście kompozytora do dzieła operowego pozwoliło uzyskać większą ilustracyjność – nie tylko poprzez muzykę, ale i dźwięki konkretne w znacznym stopniu dopełnić tekst libretta, obie te warstwy stanowią istotne nośniki treści.

Marek Gajda

E. L. Doctorow became world-famous primarily for his novel Ragtime (1975), which references a distinct style of playing the piano that had a profound impact on the development of jazz. Music also plays a principal role in a number of the author’s other works. This paper explores the role of music in one of his later novels, City of God (2000), with a focus on selected scenes in which music is represented. From the viewpoint of different modes of music in literature, namely the thematization of music, the sound layer and the musicalization of  fiction, this contribution examines the emotions elicited in the protagonists in the scenes in question, as well as the atmosphere that the music creates or accentuates. It also takes into account which musical instruments  are employed, including the symbolic meaning that one of them, the violin, carries. Furthermore, an investigation is presented as to what extent musical elements from other novels by E. L. Doctorow can be  found, and in which respects this novel is unique. In City of God, the lyrics of jazz tunes emerge throughout the  novel, thus the importance of this motif is discussed in detail along with the attention devoted to other major manifestations of music in this literary work. 

Sergio Kafejian, Sivio Ferraz

Dentre as correntes estéticas da música de concerto que surgiram no início do Século XXI, o Saturismo se destaca tanto por propor novos modelos de organização do material sonoro quanto por dar continuidade à pesquisas de sonoridades que vinham se desenvolvendo na música de tradição escrita desde os anos de 1960. Nesse artigo, buscaremos compreender quais são os recursos técnicos e os preceitos estéticos que sustentam a obra Graphein (2014) de Raphael Cendo, um dos principais compositores dessa corrente estética. Para tal, na primeira parte do artigo, iremos contextualizar historicamente o surgimento do Saturismo; na segunda iremos expor os principais conceitos e técnicas elaboradas no Saturismo; e para finalizar, apresentaremos uma proposta de análise das forças de organização que determinam o desenvolvimento de Graphein. A metodologia utilizada na análise consistiu no aprofundamento das ideias conceituais e das ferramentas composicionais do Saturismo através da leitura de textos e transcrição de entrevistas; análise da partitura; análise do fonograma – a partir dos conceitos de análise aural de Lasse Thoresen –; e análise do fonograma a partir de descritores de áudio.

Patrycja Ciborowska, Monika Michalczuk, Damian Bień

The welfare of animals, especially those kept in intensive production systems, is a priority for modern agriculture. This stems from the desire to keep animals healthy, to obtain a good-quality final product, and to meet the demands of today’s consumers, who have been increasingly persuaded to buy organic products. As a result, new sound-based methods have been pursued to reduce external stress in livestock. Music therapy has been known for thousands of years, and sounds were believed to improve both body and spirit. Today, they are mostly used to distract patients from their pain, as well as to treat depression and cardiovascular disorders. However, recent studies have suggested that appropriately selected music can confer some health benefits, e.g., by increasing the level and activity of natural killer cells. For use in livestock, the choice of genre, the loudness of the music and the tempo are all important factors. Some music tracks promote relaxation (thus improving yields), while others have the opposite effect. However, there is no doubt that enriching the animals’ environment with music improves their welfare and may also convince consumers to buy products from intensively farmed animals. The present paper explores the effects of music on livestock (cattle, poultry and pigs) on the basis of the available literature.

Shirinkina , Mariya Andreevna

The article presents a general description of the system of the executive power media resources from the point of view of its genre organization. The author offers a literature review on computer-mediated communication and the sphere of public relations and gives a definition of a genre in connection with the Internet. It is argued that an important characteristic of a media genre is its format regarded as a sum total of discourse and media aspects determined by the technical capacity of various Internet services. On the basis of executive power official websites, their press service publics and accounts of individual officials in social networks and microblogging services (VK, Instagram, Twitter), as well as messenger channels (Telegram) the author singles out genre varieties of media messages. The author argues that the executive power media communications form an integrated system of communication means and methods of communicating with the society through various Internet services and platforms. The complex of multi-code media messages constitutes a scenario of communication with all possible target groups of the state with a view to create in the collective consciousness a positive image of the executive branch in general and that of the individual officials in particular. The author comes to the conclusion that, when a communication product is posted on the Web, its principal genre features (volume, theme, composition, stylistic peculiarities) remain recognizable, and only the form of presenting the information offered to the addressee with the help of different semiotic systems varies: text, video, photo, animation, music, graphics and infographics as its particular mode, etc. The research of categorical and textual approach to media genres, which allows to describe their typological characteristics in detail may be regarded as a promising continuation of this study.

Carlos de Lemos Almada

This article introduces a theoretical-analytical model intended to address voice leading in popular music, considering specifically harmonic progressions characterized by dense chordal formations and smooth voicing connections, which is perfectly epitomized in Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions. New concepts, typologies, preference rules, graphic representations, specific terminology/symbology, as well as an integrated analytical model provide the necessary foundation for the elaboration of a system of classes of parsimonious voice leading (PVL), which form the very core of the proposal. Some analytical application is provided in the last section of the article with the exam of five excerpts of Jobim’s compositions.

Peter Holman

The well-known title page used by Michael Praetorius for several of his publications provides a starting-point for a discussion of the way large-scale music was directed in early seventeenth-century Germany. The practice of depicting composers with rolls of paper is discussed, as is the nature of seventeenth-century time-beating and how it differed from modern conducting.

Ernesto Frederico Hartmann Sobrinho

O presente trabalho busca através de uma revisão dos conceitos de Paráfrase, Empréstimo, Simulação e Modelagem de Leonard Meyer verificar se o compositor brasileiro Cláudio Santoro, em seu itinerário por suas fases estilísticas, se utilizou da tradição. Observando as duas Sonatas para piano da década de 50 pode-se estabelecer uma relação clara entre os processos propostos por Meyer e as técnicas composicionais empregadas por Santoro.

Marija Bruner, Algimantas Kirkutis, Jūratė Sučylaitė

Background. Pain after breast cancer surgery leads to long term disability. Music therapy is non-invasive, inexpensive supplementary therapy way, which helps to improve emotional and psychological condition, to reduce stress, anxiety and pain. Nevertheless, there is a lot of knowledge about the benefts of music therapy, and it is a lack of scientifc research, which could advocate for music therapy beneft after breast cancer surgery. Research aim. To evaluate music therapy effect on women pain after breast cancer surgery. Research tasks. To assess the pain of women using a visual analogue scale (VAS) before and after the application of music therapy in the study and control groups. Methods. An analysis of scientifc / medical literature was made. Quantitative research method was selected. Criteria for involvement into scientifc research were women after breast cancer surgery. In research group music therapy was applied. It consisted of 25 patients with an average age of 52.23 ± 9, 04 years. A control group consisted of 25 patients with an average age of 56.17 ± 7.84 years. Music therapy was not applied in control group. The research instrument was the VAS. The data were collected before the application of music therapy and after. Music therapy sessions were used after breast cancer surgery the whole period of rehabilitation. Sessions were held in a recreation room 6 times a week, session duration of 30 – minute. The Baroque and the New Age music were used in music therapy sessions. Listening to music, women were asked to close their eyes, relax and breathe deeply. To ensure the most accurate results of the study participants were asked to avoid listening additional music. Results. Before using music therapy the difference of pain intensity data (measured by VAS) was not statistically signifcant in the research and control groups. After music therapy the study group showed a statistically signifcant decrease in pain intensity: before music therapy pain intensity score of 6.54 ± 1.45, after music therapy – 3 ± 0.98 points (p < 0.001); control group pain intensity also decreased: before music therapy 5.58 ± 1.56 points, after music therapy 2.88 ± 1.91 points. Conclusion. After breast cancer surgery, and after the completed rehabilitation, pain decreased in the research group, where music therapy was applied (p < 0.001); in the control group, where music therapy was not applied, pain also decreased. (p < 0.05). Difference between the change of pain in study group and in control group was not statistically signifcant. Pain change in the study group was not signifcantly higher than the control group. Keywords: music therapy, pain, breast cancer.

H. Bungay, T. Vella-Burrows

A. Creech, S. Hallam, H. McQueen et al.

Yasmine S Gomaa, Joanne E Wittwer, Rebecca J Grenfell et al.

Background: Dementia can be associated with motor and non-motor disorders such as cognitive impairment, depression, and behavioral disturbance. The symptoms typically progress gradually over time. Music-cued exercises have been of therapeutic interest in recent years, especially to enable people with chronic neurological diseases to move more easily and to experience greater well-being. Objective: To investigate whether music-cued exercises are more effective than usual care for the management of motor and non-motor symptoms in people living with dementia. Methods: Systematic searching of the international literature was conducted in January 2018. Keywords were searched through electronic databases including MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, the Web of Science, Science Direct, Wiley online library, and JOVE. The Cochrane collaboration tool was used to assess the risk of bias of the randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The Downs and Black checklist assessed the quality of non-RCTs. Results: Twelve studies met the eligibility criteria, including 4 RCTs. Three investigated the effects of music-cued exercises on motor performance, four examined non-motor outcomes, four quantified the level of exercise participation, and one examined both motor and non-motor outcomes. The included studies were of modest to low quality. Conclusion: There is growing evidence for the beneficial effects of music-cued exercises for people living with dementia. Enjoyable music and physical exercises matched to rhythmical music appear to have benefits for some individuals.The dosage of music-cued exercise is a key determinant of the motor and non-motor outcomes in people living with a variety of forms of dementia.

Stanislav Bohadlo

Jiří Fukač, representing the new Czech musicological generation as the young researcher (1959), lexicographer, reviewer (1961) and especially as the author of the textbook On studying musicology (1964, O studiu hudební vědy), refused Q. Adler's narrow separation of systematic and historic musicology. He systematically paved the way for "historizing" the traditional and modern musicology disciplines. His concept of music historiography was applied on sociology and aesthetics, on aspects of semiotics, terminology, thinking, stratification, hearing, reception, communication and education. So as he adopted the basic Josef Pekař's historiographical factors (1928, geographic location, neighboring cultures, the history of its own, a coincidence), so by his categories of paradigma, syntagma, diachronic synchronous continuum-discontinum and white spots left behind valuable methodology not only for music but also for the history of art disciplines and, naturally, even for the general history.