Touching the Sound, Sounding the Touch. The Tactile Experience in the Music of Santiago Diez-Fischer as a Presentational Symbol by Eric Maestri

“…I make the assumption that all music is presentational; however, such generality must be overcome by a more important requirement. …”
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MUSIC EXPERIENCES OF TURKISH MIGRANTS: MUSIC SPECIES, MUSIC OCCUPATION AND TRADITIONAL ENTERTAINMENT PLACES by Onur Şenel

“…Within this concept firstly, how music alternatives of Turkish migrants who dont know any kind of music except Turkish folk music before expand to contain all music speciesare examined. Secondly chorus and music courses of cultural associations which are important for maintain and circulation of traditional music species are illustrated. …”
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Magical Music in Old Norse Literature by Britt-Mari Näsström

“…This does not mean that all music in the Viking Age was performed with a magic purpose, but what has survived in the sources is the conspicuous role of music as something that affected the human mind to the extent that it was experienced as a magic feeling, even able to reveal the future.…”
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"weil es eine der Geheimnisse von Rom" : die Mozarts als verhinderte Überbringer von Allegris Miserere by Thomas Hochradner

“…However, only when soon after 1700 the War of Spanish Succession raged and swapped lots of Italian instrumentalists to the German territories, the Italian orchestra style began to dominate, embracing all music with its very specific characters. Thus the Mozarts, when listening to Allegri's famous Miserere in Rome in 1770, must have felt surprised by its Falsobordone setting. …”
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Musical Aptitude and foreign language receptive pronunciation by Andrés Pujazón Rodríguez

“…Due to this, it is unclear whether language proficiency is related to all music components (pitch, rhythm, etc.) in the same way. …”
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Instruction, Devotion, and Affection: Three Roles of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier by Rachel A. Lowrance

“…No matter if the piece was sacred or secular, with text or without, Bach believed that all music should glorify God. His music in the Well-Tempered Clavier shows this devotion through musical symbols that signify aspects of the Christian life such as the cross. …”
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Artist Similarity for Everyone: A Graph Neural Network Approach by Filip Korzeniowski, Sergio Oramas, Fabien Gouyon

“…To evaluate the proposed method, we use two datasets: the open OLGA dataset, which contains artist similarities from AllMusic, together with content features from AcousticBrainz, and a larger, proprietary dataset. …”
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Auxiliary self-supervision to metric learning for music similarity-based retrieval and auto-tagging. by Taketo Akama, Hiroaki Kitano, Katsuhiro Takematsu, Yasushi Miyajima, Natalia Polouliakh

“…Our experimental results confirm that the proposed methodology enhances retrieval and tagging performance metrics in two distinct scenarios: one where human-annotated tags are consistently available for all music tracks, and another where such tags are accessible only for a subset of music tracks.…”
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Selecting the Best Music for the Moment in a Music and Imagery Session by Petra Jerling, Carmen Angulo Sánchez-Prieto, Isabel Solana Rubio

“…It became clear that intervision can be meaningful for all music therapists in clinical settings, and that trioethnography should be further explored as a research approach. …”
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Wire on Covers by Gordana Čupković

“…Wire has over time shown itself as a more resilient and efficient material than walls and ramparts due to its mobility (it is easy to install and remove) and, which is especially important, does not leave any traces after its removal, and this constitutes a particularly significant element of redesigning history and collective memory: “concentration camps are not built to last” (Razac 57) or “it was all music.” The dynamism and the impermanence emphasize the time (and the metaphorical) aspect over the spatial aspect, while the repeatability of occurrence emphasizes certain archetypal meanings.…”
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Effectiveness of MP3 Coding Depends on the Music Genre: Evaluation Using Semantic Differential Scales by Nikolaos M. Papadakis, Ioanna Aroni, Georgios E. Stavroulakis

“…The following are the most important findings of this study: classical music was negatively affected the most among the genres due to the MP3 compression (lowest ratings in 8 out of 10 bipolar scales), the solo instrument was least affected among the genres (highest rating in 7 out of 10 bipolar scales), and for higher bit rates, the differences in ratings were small for all music genres. The findings of this study could be used to optimize and adapt the standard, depending on the music genre and the musical piece that needs to be encoded.…”
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AAM: a dataset of Artificial Audio Multitracks for diverse music information retrieval tasks by Fabian Ostermann, Igor Vatolkin, Martin Ebeling

“…In contrast to datasets with commercial music, all audio tracks are freely available, allowing for extraction of own audio features. All music pieces are stored as single instrument audio tracks and a mix track, so that different augmentations and DSP effects can be applied to extend training sets and create individual mixes, e.g., for deep neural networks. …”
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Investigating the efficacy of emotion-focused therapy on social anxiety, emotional regulation and quality of life in music students with traces of social anxiety disorder by Shokoofe Razaghi, mohsen mansoobifar, nahid havasi soomar, niloufar tahmouresi

“…The statistical population of the current research was all music students of the University of Arts in 2019. …”
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The Voice and Voice Culture by Eshita Chakraborty, Debasis Barman

“…It is the only musical instrument common to all musical systems in the world. Voice is the medium of communication and expression. …”
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Consent Based Considerations for the Musical Theatre by Lusie Cuskey

“…Despite a historical understanding of the form as light, many contemporary musicals engage explicit sexual content, and the formal conventions of all musicals means that even non-sexual content may feel particularly intimate for performers. …”
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Does the flamenco tourist exist? Motivation and segmentation by Guzmán A. Muñoz-Fernández, Jesús Heredia-Carroza, Jesús Manuel de Sancha-Navarro, Lucía García-García

“…It was found that the group formed by ‘flamenco lovers’ has a very high sensitivity to all musical variables related to flamenco, being this one, the most numerous group.…”
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The Theory of Silence by David R. Kauffman

“…Instead of advancing musical ideas, 4’33” has taken away all musical ideas—it has been stripped completely of sound. …”
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“As a chief needs men, so men need a chief” by Céline Lambeau

“…Here, we will attempt to counter this tendency by examining the matter of musical direction from a psychosocial perspective, that of the “small groups” that all musical ensembles constitute by definition—dynamic entities whose fate cannot be reduced to the sum of its members’ individualities. …”
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John Zorn şi „multiversul“ muzicii sale avangardiste by Livia Georgeta Suciu

“…In this context, we focus on the artist John Zorn, given that he challenged all musical conventions and showed us that all boundaries are permeable, dissolvable and can merge. …”
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Musica non grata? Musical motifs and images in the Book of Isaiah by Grzegorz Kubies

“…In the last group I examine three passages where musical instruments form parts of the simile, a figure of speech. All musical motifs and images are presented in broad biblical, theological and cultural contexts. …”
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