Search results for "MuSICA"

Nel labirinto della notte

2016

Il testo analizza le fonti letterarie e la drammaturgia dell'opera "Notte per me luminosa" (soggetto/testo di Dario Oliveri - musica di Marco Betta), realizzata su commissione del Teatro Comunale di Modena nell'ambito delle celebrazioni del 500° anniversario della prima edizione dell'"Orlando furioso" di Ludovico Ariosto. Nella parte conclusiva vengono affrontati alcuni problemi legati alla nascita del melodramma e al problema della "mancanza di naturalezza" e del rapporto con il tema aristotelico della "verosimiglianza".

R. Cremades (Coord.), D. García Gil, MªB. Lizaso Azcune, A. Morales Fernández, MªJ. Del Olmo Barros, M. Román Álvarez e I. Sustaeta Llombart (2017). …

2020

Reseña del libro de R. Cremades (Coord.), D. García Gil, MªB. Lizaso Azcune, A. Morales Fernández, MªJ. Del Olmo Barros, M. Román Álvarez e I. Sustaeta Llombart (2017). Didáctica de la Música en Educación Infantil. Madrid: Ediciones Paraninfo.

L’opera in breve: Madama Butterfly

2009

Nuove riflessioni sul canone teatrale del madrigale drammatico

2012

The article deals with some case studies on theatrical spectacles with music, as the “mascherate” composed by Orazio Vecchi in Modena. Further, it examines some excerpts of the sixteenth-century Italian polyphony, which have not written for the stage, thus recreating the musical landscape inspired by popular songs and the onomatopoeic lexicon drawn from pastoral dramas and comedies before Vecchi’s "Amphiparnaso" (1597). In the second part, applying the criteria of narratology, the author analyses the works of Alessandro Striggio ("Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato", 1567), Gaspare Torelli ("I fidi amanti", 1600) and Adriano Banchieri ("La pazzia senile", 1607 2edn., "La prudenza giovenil…

Leisure activity patterns and their associations with overweight: A prospective study among adolescents

2007

We examined longitudinal associations between individual leisure activities (television viewing, video viewing, computer games, listening to music, board games, musical instrument playing, reading, arts, crafts, socializing, clubs or scouts, sports, outdoor activities) and being overweight using logistic regression and latent class analysis in a cohort of Finnish twins responding to self-report questionnaires at 11–12 (N=5184), 14, and 17 years. We also studied activity patterns (“Active and sociable”, “Active but less sociable”, “Passive but sociable”, “Passive and solitary”) thought to represent different lifestyles. Among boys, activity patterns did not predict becoming overweight, but s…

The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children

2009

We examined 10-12-year old elementary school children's ability to preattentively process sound durations in music and speech stimuli. In total, 40 children had either advanced foreign language production skills and higher musical aptitude or less advanced results in both musicality and linguistic tests. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings of the mismatch negativity (MMN) show that the duration changes in musical sounds are more prominently and accurately processed than changes in speech sounds. Moreover, children with advanced pronunciation and musicality skills displayed enhanced MMNs to duration changes in both speech and musical sounds. Thus, our study provides further evidence for…

Cortical processing of musical sounds in children with Cochlear Implants

2012

Abstract Objective We studied the neurocognitive mechanisms of musical instrument sound perception in children with Cochlear Implants (CIs) and in children with normal hearing (NH). Methods ERPs were recorded in a new multi-feature change-detection paradigm. Three magnitudes of change in fundamental frequency, musical instrument, duration, intensity increments and decrements, and presence of a temporal gap were presented amongst repeating 295 Hz piano tones. Independent Component Analysis was utilized to remove artifacts caused by the Cochlear Implants. Results The ERPs were similar in the two groups across all perceptual dimensions except for intensity increment deviants. CI children had s…

Does Tonal Information Affect the Early Stages of Visual-Word Processing in Thai?

2014

Thai offers a unique opportunity to investigate the role of lexical tone processing during visual-word recognition, as tone is explicitly expressed in its script. In order to investigate the contribution of tone at the orthographic/phonological level during the early stages of word processing in Thai, we conducted a masked priming experiment—using both lexical decision and word naming tasks. For a given target word (e.g., ห้อง/hᴐ:ŋ2/, room), five priming conditions were created: (a) identity (e.g., ห้อง/hᴐ:ŋ2/), (b) same initial consonant, but with a different tone marker (e.g., ห่อง/hᴐ:ŋ1/), (c) different initial consonant, but with the same tone marker (e.g., ศ้อง/sᴐ:ŋ2/), (d) orthograph…

Born to dance but beat deaf: A new form of congenital amusia

2011

Humans move to the beat of music. Despite the ubiquity and early emergence of this response, some individuals report being unable to feel the beat in music. We report a sample of people without special training, all of whom were proficient at perceiving and producing the musical beat with the exception of one case (“Mathieu”). Motion capture and psychophysical tests revealed that people synchronized full-body motion to music and detected when a model dancer was not in time with the music. In contrast, Mathieu failed to period- and phase-lock his movement to the beat of most music pieces, and failed to detect most asynchronies of the model dancer. Mathieu’s near-normal synchronization with a…

The association of noise sensitivity with music listening, training, and aptitude

2015

After intensive, long-term musical training, the auditory system of a musician is specifically tuned to perceive musical sounds. We wished to find out whether a musician's auditory system also develops increased sensitivity to any sound of everyday life, experiencing them as noise. For this purpose, an online survey, including questionnaires on noise sensitivity, musical background, and listening tests for assessing musical aptitude, was administered to 197 participants in Finland and Italy. Subjective noise sensitivity (assessed with the Weinstein's Noise Sensitivity Scale) was analyzed for associations with musicianship, musical aptitude, weekly time spent listening to music, and the impo…