Healing Music in Pericles, the Winter’s Tale and The Tempest by Grigore Claudia

“…In Pericles, in the palace at Pentapolis, Pericles asks for a musical instrument, which he plays while he sings to himself. …”
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ETNOMATEMATIKA ANGKLUNG PAGLAK BANYUWANGI by NUR HIDAYATULLOH, Rachmaniah Mirza Hariastuti

“…Angklung Paglak is a typical Banyuwangi angklung musical instrument that is heard from above using the tone of the Banyuwangian genre. …”
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Study on characteristics of a nose flute by Keisuke OBA, Takuo NAGAMINE, Hiroki MORI, Yuichi SATO

“…We show that nose flute is a unique musical instrument with the point that a nose flute has only an edge part and uses people's mouth for a resonance body part. …”
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Towards Real-Time Detection of Symbolic Musical Patterns: Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Methods by Nishal Silva, Carlo Fischione, Luca Turchet

“…This study considers a single musical instrument and investigates the detection in real-time of patterns of a monophonic music stream. …”
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Review of Thomas Turino. 2000. Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press by Ron Emoff

“…It is likely that Turino’s prior interest in performing on mbira, a Zimbabwean musical instrument, has also affected his choice of locale in which to perform ethnography, and thus to interpret these specific histories and constructions of nationalism and cosmopolitanism.…”
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“MUZICA” JOURNAL (1916-1989): THE C-O-S-T OF THE COMPROMISE WITH COMMUNIST REGIME by Cristina ŞUTEU

“…The Muzica journal was – for decades – a cultural-political musical instrument in our country. …”
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Temari Balls, Spheres, SphereHarmonic: From Japanese Folkcraft to Music by Maria Mannone, Takashi Yoshino

“…In fact, inspired by the classical idea of <i>music of spheres</i> and by the <i>CubeHarmonic</i>, a musical application of the Rubik’s cube, we present the concept of a new musical instrument, the <i>SphereHarmonic.</i> The mathematical (and musical) description of Temari balls lies in the wide background of interactions between art and combinatorics. …”
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Experiments of the sonification of the sleep electroencephalogram by Pedro Franco, Alpo Värri

“…The features are converted to amplitude modulation functions of artificial and musical instrument sounds by using mathematical transforms such as Principal Component Analysis and Linear Discriminant Analysis. …”
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ANALISIS KETERAMPILAN BERMAIN ALAT MUSIK ANGKLUNG PADA SISWA SEKOLAH DASAR by Siska Kusumawardani, Nanda Nur Aulia

“…The purpose of this study was to analyze and describe the skills of playing angklung musical instruments in elementary school children. The research method in this research is descriptive research with observation, documentation and interview data. …”
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FROM THE HISTORY OF PIANO EDUCATION IN BESSARABIA OF THE 1900-1930s: THE MUSIC COLLEGE AT THE CHISINAU BRANCH OF THE I.R.M.S. by MELNIC TAMARA

“…At the beginning of professional musical education in Bessarabia in the 19th century, piano, more than other musical instrument, contributed to the aesthetic and artistic education of a wide range of the Bessarabian society. …”
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Implementation of the Harmony Search Algorithm in Completing Lecture Scheduling by Abd. Rahman

“…For example, each musical instrument is associated with a decision variable; the musical pitch is associated with a variable value, harmony is associated with a solution vector. …”
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Bone tool from the burial mound of the North-Eastern Azov region and its possible analogy by A.N. Usachuk

“…The product from the Bom Santo cave was tentatively called a «flute», but the authors of the find are not sure that this is a musical instrument, and ultimately the find in this case also remained uncertain. …”
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Neurophysiological influence of musical training on speech perception by Antoine J Shahin

“…For example, does learning to play a musical instrument modify the neural circuitry for auditory processing in a way that improves one’s ability to perceive speech more clearly in noisy environments? …”
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The neural control of singing by Jean Mary eZarate

“…Singing provides a unique opportunity to examine music performance—the musical instrument is contained wholly within the body, thus eliminating the need for creating artificial instruments or tasks in neuroimaging experiments. …”
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Do informal musical activities shape auditory skill development in preschool-age children? by Vesa Juhani Putkinen, Katri Annukka Saarikivi, Mari eTervaniemi, Mari eTervaniemi

“…For the majority of children, however, musical experience does not primarily consist of adult-guided training on a musical instrument. Instead, young children mostly engage in everyday musical activities such as singing and musical play. …”
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«Di tromba marina» («Decameron» IX 5.35) by Alfonso D'Agostino

“…The author, after discussing the current glosses, takes up a minority interpretation, that of the «tromba marina» as a musical instrument (4th edition of the Crusca, Grande Dizionario della Lingua Italiana), but he frames the explanation in a quite new way, comparing, as the text seems to require, that instrument with Calandrino’s rebec.…”
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PerForm: Deformable Interface for Exploring Sound through Shapes by Wicaksono, Irmandy, Rozendo, Caroline, Ye, Runzhou, Trapp, Jaleesa, Bove Jr., V. Michael, Dagdeviren, Canan, Ishii, Hiroshi

“…Users are encouraged to explore a visual language in a musical context, as each new shape portrays a different musical instrument with unique sonic behavior. We apply concepts from research in the area of cross-modal perception as guidance for mapping shapes and signifiers to corresponding sounds.…”
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Music from the air : digital theremin by Do, Thu Trang

“…The Theremin is a musical instrument known for its unique method of playing that requires no physical contact. …”
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Interactive gesture-based music on a mobile phone by Ng, Joseph Heng Qi

“…It is important to note that the purpose of the project is not to create a musical instrument that can easily replace other traditional instruments such as the guitar or the piano, but merely serve as a new form of musical expression tool, that is not explored deeply before. …”
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Beatboxers and guitarists engage sensorimotor regions selectively when listening to the instruments they can play by Krishnan, S, Lima, C, Evans, S, Chen, S, Guldner, S, Yeff, H, Manly, T, Scott, S

“…All musicians show enhanced activity in sensorimotor regions (IFG, IPC and SMA), but only when listening to the musical instrument they can play. Using independent component analysis, we find expertise-selective enhancement in sensorimotor networks, which are distinct from changes in attentional networks. …”