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Relationships between perceived emotions in music and music-induced movement
2012
Listening to music makes us move in various ways. Several factors can affect the characteristics of these movements, including individual factors and musical features. Additionally, music-induced movement may also be shaped by the emotional content of the music, since emotions are an important element of musical expression. This study investigates possible relationships between emotional characteristics of music and music-induced, quasi-spontaneous movement. We recorded music-induced movement of 60 individuals, and computationally extracted features from the movement data. Additionally, the emotional content of the stimuli was assessed in a perceptual experiment. A subsequent correlational …
L’insegnamento musicale nella Casa degli Spersi di Palermo nel Settecento: nuovi documenti
2022
The "Casa degli Spersi Mascoli" ("Domus Dispersorum Marium"), the predecessor of today's "Alessandro Scarlatti" Conservatory, was the most important educational institution in Sicily inthe modern era: founded in 1617 as an orphanage, it later specialized in music teaching, while maintaining until 1917 the function of a boarding school intended for orphans and the poor. Its history and organization present a clear reference to the model of the conservatories founded in Naples between the 16th and 17th centuries. In this essay, after briefly reviewing the foundation of the institution, I will focus on some new documents related to music teaching during the 18th century.
Modelling the relationships between emotional responses to, and musical content of, music therapy improvisations
2007
This article reports a study in which listeners were asked to provide continuous ratings of perceived emotional content of clinical music therapy improvisations. Participants were presented with 20 short excerpts of music therapy improvisations, and had to rate perceived activity, pleasantness and strength using a computer-based slider interface. A total of nine musical features relating to various aspects of the music (timing, register, dynamics, tonality, pulse clarity and sensory dissonance) were extracted from the excerpts, and relationships between these features and participants' emotion ratings were investigated. The data were analysed in three stages. First, inter-dimension correla…
Soothing Lyres and epodai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
2014
Within the frame of the role of music in ancient Greece, this short essay focuses on the soothing effects of the lyre as evidence for the use of music not only for religious or educational purposes, but also for therapeutic ones. The music of the lyre proves useful both for the performer, and for people listening to it. The main two pieces of evidence analyzed, namely Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica 113, and, within a different cultural context - the biblical one - 1 Samuel XVI.16, that after many centuries was taken up again by the historian Joseph Flavius (Antiquitates Iudaicae VI 166-169), well illustrate the healing effects of music.
Predicting Music Therapy Clients’ Type of Mental Disorder Using Computational Feature Extraction and Statistical Modelling Techniques
2009
Background. Previous work has shown that improvisations produced by clients during clinical music therapy sessions are amenable to computational analysis. For example, it has been shown that the perception of emotion in such improvisations is related to certain musical features, such as note density, tonal clarity, and note velocity. Other work has identified relationships between an individual’s level of mental retardation and features such as amount of silence, integration of tempo with the therapist, and amount of dissonance. The present study further develops this work by attempting to predict music therapy clients’ type of mental disorder, as clinically diagnosed, from their improvisat…
Sentieri interrotti. Musicisti europei nel crepuscolo dell'Occidente
2012
Il volume descrive il contesto in cui vedono la luce le due mostre dedicate all’Arte Degenerata (Monaco 1937) e alla Musica Degenerata (Düsseldorf 1938), soffermandosi in modo particolare sui percorsi biografici e artistici di quattro compositori la cui biografia venne sconvolta dalla politica culturale nazista: Franz Schreker, Alexander Zemlinsky, Erich Wolfgang Korngold e Viktor Ullmann. Si tratta di autori di origine ebraica, legati in vario modo alla vita musicale di città come Berlino, Vienna e Praga, assai diversi per formazione e linguaggio, ma tutti travolti da una serie di eventi (l'avvento al potere di Hitler, la guerra, la Shoah) che trasformarono i loro percorsi biografici in al…
Marsch
2014
I canti bizantini degli Arbëresh di Sicilia. Le registrazioni di Ottavio Tiby (Piana degli Albanesi 1952-'53)
2006
Gli Albanesi (gli Arbëresh) costituiscono la più importante e numerosa “minoranza” etnico-linguistica della Sicilia. La comunità è composta da circa 20.000 persone, dislocate in 5 paesi, tutti in provincia di Palermo: Piana degli Albanesi, Contessa Entellina, Mezzojuso, Palazzo Adriano e Santa Cristina Gela. Insieme alla lingua (in tre di questi cinque paesi l’arbëresh viene tuttora usato come lingua prevalente per l’uso quotidiano), il canto bizantino costituisce un elemento fondamentale della loro identità culturale. L’origine di questa tradizione musicale risale al periodo immediatamente successivo alla caduta di Costantinopoli nelle mani dei Turchi nel 1453, e al conseguente massiccio e…