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Decoding Musical Training from Dynamic Processing of Musical Features in the Brain
2018
AbstractPattern recognition on neural activations from naturalistic music listening has been successful at predicting neural responses of listeners from musical features, and vice versa. Inter-subject differences in the decoding accuracies have arisen partly from musical training that has widely recognized structural and functional effects on the brain. We propose and evaluate a decoding approach aimed at predicting the musicianship class of an individual listener from dynamic neural processing of musical features. Whole brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data was acquired from musicians and nonmusicians during listening of three musical pieces from different genres. Six mus…
Perceiving musical tension in long chord sequences
1999
We attempted to predict perceived musical tension in longer chord sequences by hierarchic and sequential models based on Lerdahl and Jackendoff's and Lerdahl's cognitive theories and on Parncutt's sensory-psychoacoustical theory. Musicians and nonmusicians were asked to rate the perceived tension of chords which were drawn either from a piece composed for the study (Exp. 1) or from a Chopin Prelude (Exps. 2-4). In Exps. 3 and 4, several experimental manipulations were made to emphasize either the global or the local structure of the piece and to verify how these manipultions would affect the respective contribution of the models in the ratings. In all experiments, musical tension was only w…
Does Formal Musical Structure Affect Perception of Musical Expressiveness?
1996
The aim of the study was to assess the effect of systematic modifications in global musical structures on perceived expressiveness. Recorded performances of piano pieces of Bach, Mozart and Schonberg were segmented into short chunks of six seconds in average. These chunks were linked either in a forward order (Original version) or in a backward order (Inverted version). In the inverted version, the formal global structure of the pieces was destroyed, but the superficial features and the local structures inside the chunks were unaltered. Forty non-musician subjects were required to rate the musical expressiveness of these pieces on 29 semantic scales. Half listened to the three original ver…
Sonic Strokes and Musical Gestures - The Difference between Musical Affect and Musical Emotion
2009
Musicological theories traditionally address the expressive powers of music within a framework of signification, in which musical affect is considered as a meaningful musical gesture. Consequently, affect is regarded as a property of the music instead of as a bodily reaction of the listener. I will outline a different conception of musical affect that takes into account the bodily nature of perception. I will introduce the notion of sonic stroke, i.e. a sound that induces affect in the listener. A sonic stroke thus is responsible for the occurrence of musical affect. By relating the notion of sonic stroke to musical gesture the differences between the two can be articulated, as well as how …
"Saliamoci sopra e voliamo via..." Percorsi di Beni Montresor e Philip Glass verso "Le Streghe di Venezia" (1994-2009)
2016
Il saggio delinea i percorsi creativi di Philip Glass a partire dall'inizio dalla fine degli anni Sessanta, con particolare riferimento alle opere o spettacoli di teatro musicale. Nella seconda parte vengono descritti l'eperienza biografica e artistica di Beni Montresor, nonché la genesi e i caratteri musicali dell'opera in due atti "The Witches of Venice" (Le Streghe di Venezia, 1994-2009), presentata al Teatro Massimo di Palermo nella versione che include anche i testi di Vincenzo Cerami.
Il caso Webern. Ricostruzione di un delitto
2021
La sera del 15 settembre 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa, il compositore Anton Webern fu assassinato da un cuoco dell'esercito americano. Le circostanze del delitto sono rimaste in parte senza spiegazione e proiettano un'ombra sulla biografia di Webern nel suo complesso. Il libro traccia un profilo biografico del compositore, con particolare riferimento agli ultimi anni della sua vita e mistero della sua morte. On the evening of September 15, 1945, when the war was over, the composer Anton Webern was assassinated by a cook of the American occupation army. The circumstances of the crime remain in some respects unsolved and cast a shadow over Webern's biography as a whole. The book is a portrai…
Una aproximación a la marcha mora a través del análisis musical de Als Ligeros
2021
En este estudio se realiza una aproximación conceptual a la marcha mora como género fundamental en la música de moros y cristianos mediante el análisis musical de Als Ligeros. Se describen los tres géneros musicales más carac-terísticos de este arte musical y se apuntan sus rasgos más destacados. Se realiza un análisis pormenorizado centra-do principalmente en los elementos más importantes de la Música Festera como son: el ritmo, la melodía y la forma, sin descuidar otros como la armonía o la instrumentación, constituyendo los primeros el eje base del estudio analítico. Este tipo de análisis consiste en desglosar una estructura musical final en elementos constitutivos más pequeños que forma…
La Cumparsita: a source of lawsuits Contursi and Maroni vs. Matos Rodríguez
2016
This article deploys Tango along with the lawsuits concerning to whom participated in the elaboration of “La Cumparsita” and its lyrics as a frame of reference for discussing about copyrights and intellectual property. In addition to giving an opinion about the procedure to arrive at the final solution related to the adjudication of the copyrights along its effects of that in each one of the beneficiaries, the author tell us a little bit of the process of creating this musical composition as well as the scope it had during its time. El presente artículo utiliza al Tango, a los pleitos y personajes que participaron en la elaboración de La cumparista y sus letras, como marco referencial para …
Music, gender and rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean: revisiting the Punic evidence
2012
Abstract Music, playing instruments and performing rituals are bodily activities and as such they can be studied stressing their corporeal features. Music and sounds are usually essential elements in rites, and bodies play an essential role in bringing together music and rituals. We explore these issues focusing on Punic terracotta figurines playing musical instruments recovered from the island of Ibiza (fifth to third centuries bc).
Composition et cognition musicales : création, perception, appréciation
2005
Ce texte est un rapport de fin de recherche issu de l'ACI cognitique.; Ce projet avait pour objet d'apporter des éléments objectifs de réflexion sur les possibilités et limites de la perception et de la compréhension des matériaux et des structures d'une oeuvre de musique contemporaine. Les buts spécifiques comprenaient l'étude : 1) des processus d'invention et de résolution de problèmes dans la composition musicale, 2) des processus de traitement perceptif et de mémorisation des matériaux musicaux, 3) du traitement perceptif et mnésique des variations ou transformations opérées sur ces matériaux et de l'intégration des matériaux et de leurs transformations dans une forme d'ensemble, 4) du …