Impact of Various Civilizations and Culturesonal-A'shā’s Poetry by Seyyed Muhammad Mirhusseini, Hishmatullah Zarei Kefayat

“…Since he travelled to neighboring areas toearn afortune, his poems represent symbols of civilization and culture such as divorce, marriage, war,pastime, means of pleasure and musical instruments. Furthermore, different religions, religiousbeliefs and rituals can beobserved in his poems. …”
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Physico-mechanical properties of the wood of freijó, Cordia goeldiana (Boraginacea), produced in a multi-stratified agroforestry system in the southwestern Amazon by Adriano Reis Prazeres MASCARENHAS, Marta Silvana Volpato SCCOTI, Rafael Rodolfo de MELO, Fernando Luíz de Oliveira CORRÊA, Emanuel Fernando Maia de SOUZA, Alexandre Santos PIMENTA

“…The wood under study is suitable for manufacture of high-value-added products, such as fine furniture, residential floors, musical instruments and structural pieces.…”
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Anatomical characteristics of evergreen oak (Quercus L.) species natural distributed in Turkey by Eda KADEM, Hüseyin FAKİR

“…The physical structure of wood does not allow the fluid passage so, it can be used in producing of storage cask for alcohol producing industry, furniture producing, ship construction, water constructions, carving, producing of musical instruments and hardwood industry. In this study, anatomic features of Quercus aucheri Jaub.…”
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The involvement of local communities in the conservation process of earthen architecture in the Sahel-Sahara region – the case of Djenné, Mali by Oussouby Sacko

“…Immaterial heritage, such as oral history, traditional music, instruments and dance, is also affected. In the northwestern part of Africa, the so-called Sahel-Sahara region, earthen architecture has played an important role in cultural identity and has been a key means of community establishment. …”
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Controversies over the mechanisms underlying the crucial role of the left fronto-parietal areas in the representation of tools by Guido eGainotti, Guido eGainotti

“…In particular, the following lines of research, which argue against the innate nature of the brain’s categorical organization, are discussed: (1) the observation that in patients with category-specific disorders the semantic impairment does not respect the boundaries between biological entities and artefact items; (2) data showing that experience-driven neuroplasticity in musicians is not confined to alterations of perceptual and motor maps but also leads to the establishment of higher-level semantic representations for musical instruments; (3) results of experiments using previously unfamiliar materials showing that the history of our sensory-motor experience with an object significantly affects its neural representation.…”
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Musculoskeletal, hearing and skin problems related to playing the instrument by Aleksandra Jacukowicz, Agata Wężyk

“…Background Physical demands, exposure to noise and intense contact of skin with musical instruments – inevitable in musicians’ job – influence the development of musculoskeletal, hearing and skin problems. …”
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Transmission of Time and Position Variable Cryptology in Fibonacci and Lucas Number Series with Music by Firdevs Nur Algül, Daniel Tavit, Cemil Karaçam

“…Although there are independent studies on encryption and music in literature, no study is seen on encryption methods that are created by using the properties of mathematical number strings and can be expressed with musical instruments. The purpose in this research is to develop ideas for an effective encryption method and to create a time and location variable encryption method considering this deficiency in the literature by getting advantage of the additive feature in Fibonacci and Lucas number sequences and moving from here to develop new perspectives on encryption science. …”
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The use of simple percussion instruments for stimulating the development of a child with disability and for support of their nearest family by Paweł Cylulko

“…This can also be done with simple musical instruments, particularly percussion instruments, such as rattles, drums, clappers, claves, bells, tambourines or sleigh bells. …”
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Recent and Past Musical Activity Predicts Cognitive Aging Variability: Direct Comparison with Leisure Activities by Brenda eHanna-Pladdy, Byron eGajewski

“…Recently, we reported an association between extent of musical instrumental practice throughout the life span (greater than 10 years) on preserved cognitive functioning in advanced age . …”
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Cheiron as a Mentor in Medicine to Achilles and Asclepius: the Pedagogical Mission of an Urban Centaur by Viktoria Pichugina

“…Among the extensive list of knowledge, skills and abilities that Chiron possessed and passed on to his numerous students, there are three areas related to education: 1) how to fight and take a life, 2) how to heal and return life – the art of healing, the reverse of the military, 3) special skills, such as how to play musical instruments or recognize constellations. We have compared the textual and visual (images on ceramics of the 6th-5th centuries BC) traditions that represent the student paths of Achilles and Asclepius, for whom medical knowledge was an important part of the curriculum. …”
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Proposal of a Method for the Evaluation of the Employment Possibilities for People with Special Needs on Woodworking Machines by Ondřej Gerbrich, Pavel Král

“…Experience has shown that appropriate work adaptation enables the production of complicated wooden products such as musical instruments. The proposed method specifies the work capacity of a particular person and technology on a particular piece of machinery when machining of a specific workpiece. …”
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EKSISTENSI PEREMPUAN DALAM OPERA BATAK: STUDI KASUS ZULKAIDAH HARAHAP by Jayanti Mandasari Sagala

“…The creativity of Zulkaidah Harahap in the performing art of Batak Opera can be seen in two things: first, as the one and only woman leader ever to lead a Batak Opera group, second, as the first woman of parmusik (musician) who can play musical instruments to become parmusik which is parallel to men. …”
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The drum and its significance for the interpretation of the Old Testament from an African perspective: Part two by Rudolph De Wet Oosthuizen

“…Bearing in mind the importance of music and its function regarding religious expression, various aspects pertaining to the function and significance of music are being explored in order to enrich the interpretation of Psalm 150, with specific reference to music and musical instruments. (Whilst the focus in Part one [Oosthuizen 2016] is more on some hermeneutical aspects as pertaining to a specific reading strategy, Part two explores the significance of music for the interpretation of the Old Testament from an African perspective with specific reference to the drum and its usage in Psalm 150). …”
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The Stylistics of Al-qu’ran: The Symbolic Meaning and Function of the Art of Reading Al-qur’an on the Context of Communication by Musta'in Musta'in

“…This paper attempts to discuss the stylistic styles of language in the aspects of the art of reading the Qoran with a single voice, without the accompaniment of musical instruments, and unrelated to musical tone. This is specifically used for tazyin al-Saut bi tilawah al-Quran. …”
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Komposisi Kala by M. Yoga Supeno

“…Basically, the presentation of Kala is combining the western and ethnic musical instruments that most of the them consist of percussion instruments such as marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, chime, drum set, bonang Sunda, cetik, tambourines, and melodic instruments such as accordion, violin, harp, and electric bass. …”
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Evaluating most relaxing Audio Accompaniment for Post-Workout Relaxation by Jekaterina Frolova, Chinmay Pandya

“…The sessions included nature sounds, musical instruments, vocalizations, and silence. The results showed varying responses among the participants (1.8 to 4.6 out of 5), indicating the influence of audio accompaniment on relaxation. …”
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Music-based therapy in rehabilitation of people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review of clinical trials by Josiane Lopes, Ivo Ilvan Keppers

“…Modalities of MBT were clustered into four groups: (1) Rhythmic auditory; (2) Playing musical instruments; (3) Dance strategy; and (4) Neurological music therapy. …”
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Correlation between music and art in pre-school institutions by Vojkić Ljiljana O., Dubljević Jelena O.

“…Besides, children can become included in designing simple musical instruments (Đurković-Pantelić, 1998), or in their modelling with coloured dough or plasticine (Filipović, Kamenov, 2009). …”
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Perception of everyday sounds: a developmental study of a free sorting task. by Aurore Berland, Pascal Gaillard, Michèle Guidetti, Pascal Barone

“…Perception and categorization of everyday sounds was assessed based on a FST composed of 18 different sounds belonging to three a priori categories: non-linguistic human vocalizations, environmental sounds, and musical instruments. RESULTS:Children listened to the sounds more times than older participants, built significantly more classes than adults, and used a different strategy of classification. …”
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دراسة فعالية وجودة الصوت في خوارزميات ضغط الصوت by فاتن فاروسي

“…It's a process that consists of a wide range of applications like coding and digital compression for the effective transport and storage on mobile phones and portable music players, modeling and reproduction of the sound of musical instruments and music halls and the harmonics of digital music, editing digital music, and classification of music content, and other things.…”
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