Kragness, Haley E Eitel, Matthew J Baksh, Ammaarah M Trainor, Laurel J
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Developmental science
Accurate perception and production of emotional states is important for successful social interactions across the lifespan. Previous research has shown that when identifying emotion in faces, preschool children are more likely to confuse emotions that share valence, but differ in arousal (e.g. sadness and anger) than emotions that share arousal, bu...
Caccia, Martina Lorusso, Maria Luisa
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Developmental science
Rhythm perception seems to be crucial to language development. Many studies have shown that children with developmental dyslexia and developmental language disorder have difficulties in processing rhythmic structures. In this study, we investigated the relationships between prosody and musical processing in Italian children with typical and atypica...
Velasco-Pufleau, Luis
Militant anashid (Islamic chants or recitations) are used, chanted and listened to by almost every jihadi armed group in the world. This chapter explores how the issue of the sacred nature of jihadi anashid has been developed in recent Salafi-related Islamic scholarship and examines testimonies on the role of these chants in Islamic State warfare. ...
Raglio, Alfredo Oddone, Enrico Morotti, Lara Khreiwesh, Yasmin Zuddas, Chiara Brusinelli, Jessica Imbriani, Chiara Imbriani, Marcello
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Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Background Music is widely used in clinical and rehabilitative fields and recently also in the field of Occupational Medicine. This review aims at selecting the evidence-based studies regarding music interventions in workplaces. Methods In order to carry out a narrative literature review, two independent pairs of investigators searched in PubMed an...
Venrooij, Esther; 68966;
Sound is ephemeral. It does not belong to anyone. It cannot be captured in words. Writing on sound art usually focuses on the same familiar figures, but this treatment will broaden the field to explore artistic practitioners like the godfather of movie sound, Walter Murch, the king of the jungle Chris Watson, naturalist and explorer Alexander von H...
Harkins, Paul
Often described as the first digital sampler, the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI) was primarily a digital synthesizer and computer workstation. Launched in 1979, it was one of the technologies that were used to re-shape the practices of music making and the sounds of popular music in the 1980s. In 2017 the National Science and Media Mus...
Drzymalski, Dan Michael Lumbreras-Marquez, Mario Isaac Tsen, Lawrence Ching Camann, William Reid Farber, Michaela Kristina
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The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
Background: Women undergoing cesarean delivery may have significant anxiety prior to surgery. Nonpharmacological approaches to anxiety reduction are favored in this patient population.Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of patient-selected or preselected music on anxiety in parturients undergoing scheduled cesarean deliver...
Elliott, Melanie Gardner, Paula Narushima, Miya McCleary, Lynn
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Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement
An aging population and increasing rates of dementia point to the need for alternative strategies that allow individuals to age in place. This multiple case study explored, from an insider's perspective, the role and meaning of music for individuals with dementia who are aging in place. Methods were semi-structured interviews, observations, and vid...
Venczel, Peter
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Theatrical Colloquia
In this article I would like to point out the importance of the functionality of the soundtrack in film and theatre. First of all, I can mention that the chosen thematic has an almost unexistent bibliography due to the decreased number of theoretical works in this domain, and the few existent studies handle the same thematic from different angles, ...
Atkinson, Mitchell III
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Gestalt Theory
I outline an approach to the phenomenology of improvised music which takes typification and the development of multi‐ordered phenomenological structures as central. My approach here is firmly in line with classical Husserlian phenomenology, taking the discussion of types in Experience and Judgment (Husserl, 1973) and Brudzińska (2015) as guide. I p...