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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Perception of congruence between music and movement in a rhythmic gymnastics routine by Loo, Fung Chiat, Loo, Fung Ying, Chua, Yan Piaw

“…Fifty-two participants from a tertiary institution, all music majors, were asked to evaluate two videos which had the same rhythmic gymnastics routine, one with the athlete’s original music and the other edited with the new music. …”
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Integrating Music and Language Content and Skills in the Academic Course English Language for Children through Song and Movement by Aleksandra L. Stošić

“…A song is a musical content in which melody and poetic text are unified, which makes it an ideal tool in all music activities with children of preschool and early primary school age. …”
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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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Student′s music exposure: Full-day personal dose measurements by Nilesh Jeevandas Washnik, Susan L Phillips, Sandra Teglas

“…Considering the current finding, there is a need to conduct hearing conservation programs in all music schools, and to educate student musicians about the use and importance of hearing protection devices for their hearing.…”
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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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Halévy, fugue d’école und basse donnée by Birger Petersen

“…In the nineteenth century, fugue as an exercise in compositional technique – according to Cherubini the ideal combination of strict counterpoint and free composition – was part of the standard curriculum of almost all music education institutions, including the Conservatoire de Paris. …”
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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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Music Listening for Supporting Adolescents’ Sense of Agency in Daily Life by Suvi Helinä Saarikallio, William M. Randall, Margarida Baltazar

“…There was no general increase of agency across all music episodes, but agency fluctuations were determined by specific contextual factors. …”
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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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Learning Styles of Undergraduate Musical Students Attending Music College in Thailand by Anchalee Tanwinit, Wichian Sittiprapaporn

“…Knowing the music students preferred learning modes can: (1) help provide instruction tailored to the student’s individual preferences, (2) overcome the predisposition to treat all music students in a similar way, (3) motivate teachers to move from their preferred mode(s) to using others, and (4) develop appropriate learning approaches and explore opportunities so that music educators will be able to make the educational experience more productive. …”
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Review of Jennifer Milioto Matsue. 2009. Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene. New York and London: Routledge by Kristen Sollee

“…Taking punk tempos and speeding them up, hardcore is described by the All Music Guide (cited by Matsue) as incorporating guitars with a “monochrome” timbre and “half-shouted lyrics venting the most inflammatory sentiments the singers and songwriters could devise”. …”
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Phenomenal and virtual views on music related to buddhism in 21st-century Malaysia by Chow, Ow Wei

“…This study consciously regards all music related to Buddhism as an all-inclusive genre called ‘Buddhism-related music’, while the term ‘Buddhist music’, which is adopted to classify or describe this typical music, is employed interchangeably though both terms are not entirely the same in their specific contexts. …”
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Supportive Music and Imagery Method by Sumi Paik-Maier

“…It uses one piece of pre-recorded music that is short and simple in all musical elements and non-classical music is often used.It aims at enhancing one’s ego by supporting one’s positive resource rather than exploring problems and issues. …”
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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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