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The dark side of optimism: Musical dreams, belief, and gambling Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 George Musgrave, Sally Anne Gross, Maike Klein
Being a career musician is typified by high risk. Despite low earnings, many musicians pursue their careers driven by self-belief, high expectations, and optimism. However, failure to obtain the success many optimistically aspire to has been seen to pose psychosocial risks relating to mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. While studies have shown dispositional optimism as having
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Auditory imagery ability influences accuracy when singing with altered auditory feedback Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Courtney N. Reed, Marcus Pearce, Andrew McPherson
In this preliminary study, we explored the relationship between auditory imagery ability and the maintenance of tonal and temporal accuracy when singing and audiating with altered auditory feedback (AAF). Actively performing participants sang and audiated (sang mentally but not aloud) a self-selected piece in AAF conditions, including upward pitch-shifts and delayed auditory feedback (DAF), and with
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Validation of the abbreviated version of the Profile of Musical Perception Skills (Mini-PROMS) in a Spanish sample of musicians and non-musicians Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Laura Vázquez-Fragua, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Blázquez, José María Ruiz-Sánchez de León
Despite the efforts made throughout the 20th century to develop standardized batteries to measure musical ability, there seems to be no consensus as to the construct’s gold standard. The Profile of Music Perception Skills (PROMS) was created with the aim of overcoming some of the limitations of previous assessment tests. The Mini-PROMS is the shortened version of the full battery and has a shorter
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A qualitative investigation of a virtual community music and music therapy intervention: A Scottish–American collaboration Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Hannah Quigley, Raymond MacDonald
This study investigates the experiences of people involved in a virtual intervention involving community music and music therapy for individuals with autism. The intervention blends conventional music therapy and community music approaches. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many community music and music therapy projects shifted to an online format and there is a resultant need to understand more about
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Sentences used in the speech-to-song illusion: Comparisons of acoustic vowel space Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Anna Hiemstra, Makiko Sadakata
In the speech-to-song illusion, certain spoken sentences start sounding like song when repeated several times. This perceptual transformation does not occur for all stimuli, suggesting that acoustic properties of the stimulus may contribute to the illusion. We investigated the contribution of the acoustic properties of vowels to this phenomenon by analyzing the acoustic vowel-space area bounded by
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The protean music career as a sociopolitical orientation: The mutually integrated, non-hierarchical work values of socially engaged musicians Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Heidi Westerlund, Sari Karttunen
Socially engaged, participatory music making is slowly establishing itself as a complement to musicians’ portfolio careers, although it may still be considered of less value than established concert hall practices. To gain a better understanding of the drivers toward socially engaged practice in music field, we analyzed 20 semi-structured interviews with musicians in Finland, using the lenses of work
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Expressive semitones: Music students’ perceptual preferences for melodic intonation on the violin Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Sheng-Ying Isabella Weng, Erkki Huovinen
Studies of performance intonation and musicians’ own statements suggest that classical string instrumentalists often deviate in their intonation from equal temperament for expressive purposes. However, it is not clear to what extent corresponding perceptual preferences for intonational deviations might rely on listeners’ instrumental expertise or such contextual aspects as the metrical placement of
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Moving from informal talk to performance: The use of musical prompting as an interaction device for resuming practice in musical theatre rehearsals Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Alice Sanderson, Antonia Ivaldi, Michael Forrester
In research on communication in music lessons, masterclasses, and rehearsals, there is a growing focus on multimodal interaction using conversation analysis (CA), where the combination of talk and embodied actions (e.g., using musical instruments, gestures, voice, and score) provides the opportunity to study this complex area in microscopic detail and the potential for findings to inform practice.
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“A choir is a social organism that needs human contact.” Conducting a choir during the COVID-19 lockdown period Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Michele Biasutti, Roberta Antonini Philippe, Andrea Schiavio
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major changes to many areas at the very heart of our lives, triggering interventions that affected people’s everyday activities, both socially and individually. The use of e-learning and online platforms to support music education and performance created a drastic shift in how music was taught, made, and enjoyed. This qualitative study provides personal insights into the
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Have we sold our souls to the drum machine? A historical analysis of tempo stability in Western music recordings Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Nathaniel Condit-Schultz, Beach Clark
Musicians have long sought technology to facilitate and develop their abilities to maintain stable tempos. The rise of inherently tempo-stable instruments and performance technologies in the late 20th century—for example, turntables, sequencers, drum machines, click tracks, and post-production quantization—has fed an increasing trend toward tempo stability in Western popular music. However, the exact
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The effects of active music interventions on cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jennifer A. Bugos, Linda Lu, Liwei Chen, Miranda Rose Torres, Ayo A. Gbadamosi
Active music interventions represent one promising nonpharmacological intervention; however, the effects of these interventions are not well understood. This systematic review and meta-analysis exa...
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Musical activities in preschool education: A cross-cultural comparative study Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Alfredo Bautista, María Elena Riaño, Joanne Wong, Adolf Murillo
The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of musical activities carried out in preschools for children aged 3–6 years in two contrasting cultural settings: Spain, a Mediterranean Europ...
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Replication of the music preference (MUSIC) model and evaluation of its association with personality and autistic traits Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Zhong Jian Chee, Yvonne Leung, Marieke de Vries
Music preferences have consistently been found to follow a five-factor structure (i.e., Mellow, Unpretentious, Sophisticated, Intense, and Contemporary, in short MUSIC), in the West. These factors ...
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Becoming the right musician for the job: Versatility, connectedness, and professional identities during personalized, online music-making in hospital maternity wards Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Caitlin Shaughnessy, Andrew Hall, Rosie Perkins
The beneficial potential for music in hospital contexts is well established, with research showing that music can promote patient well-being and support recovery. However, less attention has been p...
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Passion, music, and psychological well-being Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Merrick Powell, Kirk N Olsen, Robert J Vallerand, William Forde Thompson
Passionate music engagement is a defining feature of music fans worldwide. Although benefits to psychosocial well-being are often experienced by fans of music, some fans experience maladaptive outc...
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Music, social cohesion, and intercultural understanding: A conceptual framework for intercultural music engagement Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Alexander Hew Dale Crooke, William Forde Thompson, Trisnasari Fraser, Jane Davidson
Regional conflict, growing technological developments, and climate change have seen high migration rates, which are likely to rise. Discrimination and violence at the hands of host societies contin...
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Musicians’ views on the role of reading music in learning, performance, and understanding Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Yuko Arthurs, Karin Petrini
Reading music notation is not an easy skill to acquire and can take years of training to master. In addition, it is not strictly necessary to be able to read music to make music. Nevertheless, musi...
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Lyrics and melodies: Do both affect emotions equally? A replication and extension of Ali and Peynircioğlu (2006) Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Yiqing Ma, David John Baker, Katherine M Vukovics, Connor J Davis, Emily Elliott
What factors affect listeners’ perception of the emotions conveyed by music? Ali and Peynircioğlu conducted a series of experiments in which listeners rated emotional judgments of the melodies and ...
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Influence of surface features on the perception of nonadjacent musical phrases Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Joanna Spyra, Matthew Woolhouse
Although temporally nonadjacent key relationships (e.g., Key X →Key Y→ Key X) are ubiquitous within tonal music, the full extent to which they are perceived is uncertain. Previous research suggests...
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Preliminary evaluation of music-based emotion-regulation skills to augment CBT for adolescents with ADHD Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Mehdi Zemestani, Matineh Azadbakht, Eric A Storch
Adjunctive strategies that effectively incorporate adolescents’ developmental needs may augment the therapeutic benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for adolescents with attention deficit...
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Musical identities in action: Embodied, situated, and dynamic Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Raymond MacDonald, Suvi Saarikallio
This article provides a critical overview of musical identities as a research topic. A broad distinction between identities in music (IIM) and music in identities (MII) highlights how musical engag...
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Identity processes and musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Glynis M Breakwell, Rusi Jaspal
Musicians, both professional and amateur creators of music, faced economic, social, and psychological hardship during the pandemic. In this article, we use identity process theory from social psych...
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Always liminal, always learning: Why community learning is needed, and how to start Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Nic Beech
This article sets out the case that there is a conflation of personal and situational liminality in the music industry. The response to this needs to include greater dynamism and development both o...
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Validation of the Musical Identity Measure: Exploring musical identity as a variable across multiple types of musicians Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Karen Burland, Dawn Bennett, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez
This article introduces the validation of a Musical Identity Measure (MIM), developed to support individuals’ self-conceptions in relation to their musical activities (e.g., performance, compositio...
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Mapping the cultural elements that support and inhibit music teachers’ sociomusical identities in Chile Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Rolando Angel-Alvarado, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez, Isabel Quiroga-Fuentes, Bayron Gárate-González
Sociomusical identities determine the social positions of individuals based on traditions and historical backgrounds, deriving from the reciprocal interchange of cultural elements within social gro...
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Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study on music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen A. Herff, Christoph Finkensiep, Daniel Harasim, Martin A. Rohrmeier
Functional harmony is an integral part of many repertoires in the Western musical practices, including both diatonic and extended tonality. In the latter context, music-theoretical accounts suggest...
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The effect of dichotic music presentation on ratings of emotional facial expressions Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Erika Y Hae, Bianca DM Hatin
Music has a cross-modal influence on the emotional appraisal of pictures, probably due to a misattribution of emotion from music to the visually perceived images. Moreover, dichotic listening studi...
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Tell me what you see: An exploratory investigation of visual mental imagery evoked by music Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Sofia Dahl, Antonio Stella, Thomas Bjørner
The link between musical structure and evoked visual mental imagery (VMI), that is, seeing in the absence of a corresponding sensory stimulus, has yet to be thoroughly investigated. We explored thi...
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Expressive goals for performing musicians: The case of clarinetists Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Andre Almeida, Weicong Li, Emery Schubert, John Smith, Joe Wolfe
Music can convey emotions. Even in the performance of written rather than improvised music, the performer can modify the way they play particular elements of the music to convey specific emotions. ...
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Auditory imagery in congenital amusia Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Ariadne Loutrari, Kathryn Ansell, C Philip Beaman, Cunmei Jiang, Fang Liu
Congenital amusia is a neurogenetic disorder affecting various aspects of music and speech processing. Although perception and auditory imagery in the general population may share mechanisms, it is...
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Tracing change during music therapy for depression: Toward a markers-based understanding of communicative behaviors Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Sarah Knight, Neta Spiro
This article focuses on behavioral markers—changes in communicative behaviors that reliably indicate the presence and severity of mental health conditions. We explore the potential of behavioral ma...
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Mind-wandering during contemporary live music: An exploratory study Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Juliane Deil, Nina Markert, Philip Normand, Philipp Kammen, Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi
During a live concert, the mind can wander to unrelated thoughts such as personal concerns or past memories or to vivid images that are inspired by the music. This is an omnipresent phenomenon comm...
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The Japanese translation of the Gold-MSI: Adaptation and validation of the self-report questionnaire of musical sophistication Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Makiko Sadakata, Yasumasa Yamaguchi, Chie Ohsawa, Masaki Matsubara, Hiroko Terasawa, Andres von Schnehen, Daniel Müllensiefen, Kaoru Sekiyama
This study presents a Japanese translation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI). The index consists of 38 self-report questions and provides a general sophistication score as w...
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Going online: Successes and challenges in delivering group music instrument and aural learning for older adult novices during the COVID-19 pandemic Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Jennifer MacRitchie, Anthony Chmiel, Madeleine Radnan, John R Taylor, Roger T Dean
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many cultural and artistic programs for older adults have been put on hold, despite the numerous physical, social, and emotional well-being benefits continued ...
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Can perseverance of effort become maladaptive? Study addiction moderates the relationship between this component of grit and well-being among music academy students Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Stanisław Konrad Czerwiński, Rafał Lawendowski, Michał Kierzkowski, Paweł Andrzej Atroszko
Grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, is investigated as a predictor of academic success and well-being. This trait may have special importance for musicians’ functioning a...
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Understanding the musical identity and career thinking of postgraduate classical music performance students Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Guadalupe López-Íñiguez, Karen Burland, Dawn Bennett
The classical music sector faces an urgent challenge as increasing numbers of performance graduates struggle to establish themselves as full-time professional musicians. In part, this situation relates to narrow higher music education curricula that do not sufficiently prepare musicians for the precarious and nonlinear careers that characterize music work. The study reported here employed Version 1
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Music students’ experienced workload in higher education: A systematic review and recommendations for good practice Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Tuula Jääskeläinen, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez, Michelle Phillips
While there is extensive research on student workload in higher education, research-based findings relating to music students’ workloads are, to a great extent, lacking. In this study, we aim to re...
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Tempo versus average rates of harmonic rhythm in popular music: A study of three corpora Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Trevor de Clercq
This article reports a pair of studies that test two opposing hypotheses derived from music theory scholarship with regard to chord durations in popular music. The first hypothesis is that, regardless of tempo, chords will tend to last on average an ideal span of relative time, such as a bar. The second hypothesis is that, regardless of tempo, chords will tend to last on average an ideal span of absolute
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Mechanisms of absolute pitch: I. Acoustical beating Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Jon Baggaley, Alan Thurlow
Musicologists and philosophers have commonly attributed distinctive qualities to individual musical pitches, and absolute pitch (AP) possessors recognize and recall notes and keys with immediacy and accuracy, leaving little doubt that they are aware of such characteristics. Bachem proposed that these distinct tonal qualities underlie the rapid and accurate judgments that he identified as genuine AP
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Perception of violin performance expression through expressive musical terms Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Aviel Sulem, Ehud Bodner, Noam Amir
Expressive musical terms (EMTs) are often used in classical Western music as verbal instructions to performers to convey particular forms of expression. Recently, Sulem et al. (2019) analyzed the p...
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Mechanisms of absolute pitch: II. Pitch shift and perfect touch Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Alan Thurlow, Jon Baggaley
The previous article in this series reviewed the historical and modern academic literature concerning the distinctive characteristics of individual musical notes and keys. It stressed Bachem’s definition of tone chroma (TC) as the quality that allows notes/keys to be identified instantly and accurately by musicians possessing the type of absolute pitch (AP) that Bachem described as genuine. TC qualities
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Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Francesca Talamini, Julia Vigl, Elizabeth Doerr, Massimo Grassi, Barbara Carretti
Mental imagery plays an important role in various contexts of life, involving cognitive resources such as memory, learning, spatial representation, and reasoning. The vividness of mental images depends on different factors, including personal expertise in a certain field. For instance, musicians have been found to possess better auditory imagery abilities than non-musicians for both musical and non-musical
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Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Cédric Viaccoz, Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier
Many structural aspects of music, such as tonality, can be expressed using hierarchical representations. In music analysis, so-called keyscapes can be used to map a key estimate (e.g., C major, F m...
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Is music listening an effective intervention for reducing anxiety? A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Cristina Harney, Judith Johnson, Freya Bailes, Jelena Havelka
Anxiety is the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorder in the EU and 18% of the US population experiences an anxiety disorder at any one time. However, only 20% of individuals experiencing a...
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The missing fundamentals of harmonic theory: Chord roots and their ambiguity in arrangements of jazz standards Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Richard Parncutt, Lazar Radovanovic
Since Lippius and Rameau, chords have roots that are often voiced in the bass, doubled, and used as labels. Psychological experiments and analyses of databases of Western classical music have not produced clear evidence for the psychological reality of chord roots. We analyzed a symbolic database of 100 arrangements of jazz standards (musical instrument digital interface [MIDI] files from midkar.com
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Student perceptions of the classroom environment, student characteristics, and motivation for music lessons at secondary school Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Ioulia Papageorgi, Natassa Economidou Stavrou
The literature suggests that there is often no alignment between student preferences and what and how it is taught in the music classroom. A total of 749 Cypriot secondary school students, aged 12 ...
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Singing at Menopause: A Systematic Review with Pedagogical Implications Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Mauro B. Fiuza, Maria Luisa Sevillano, M.B. Lã Filipa
Menopause is a certainty in a female singer’s life; depletion of estrogens may lead to physical, mental, and vocal symptoms. To investigate the extent to which these symptoms affect singers, a systematic literature review was carried out using eight interdisciplinary bibliographic databases. Combinations of the following key words were used: menopause, climacterium, singing, singers, and choir. From
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Individual differences in music reward sensitivity influence the perception of emotions represented by music Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Nieves Fuentes-Sánchez, M Carmen Pastor, Tuomas Eerola, Raúl Pastor
Although music is one of the most important sources of pleasure for many people, there are considerable individual differences in music reward sensitivity. Behavioral and neurobiological characteri...
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Choose your own adventure: Vocal jazz improvisation, conceptual metaphor, and cognitive embodiment Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Melissa Forbes, Kate Cantrell
Creativity in the form of musical improvisation has received growing attention from researchers informed by the literature on embodiment. To date, this research has focused on the embodied experien...
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Life satisfaction and adolescent music making: A comparison of youth choirs and bands in Spain Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Salvador Oriola-Requena, Diego Calderón-Garrido, Josep Gustems
Adolescents who are members of youth music groups learn music and develop other skills such as group work and conflict resolution. These skills and feelings may represent socioemotional factors und...
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“A reward rather than a right”: Facilitators’ perspectives on the place of music in Norwegian prison exceptionalism Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Áine Mangaoang
Scholarship on prison music-making projects and programmes to date has largely overlooked the perspectives of prison music facilitators, who form an integral part of many prison music activities. The aim of the study, which was exploratory in nature, was to contribute to a better understanding overall of the relationship between music and imprisonment by focusing on the perspectives of prison music
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Fugue for Four Voices: Building narratives through music behind bars Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Inês Lamela
The project On the Wings of a Piano . . . I Learn to Fly was developed with four women in custody inside a Portuguese prison during 2013–2014 over a period of eight months. Weekly individual sessions focused on improvisation, composition, memorization, and learning repertoire. This one-to-one work with participants resulted in the presentation of three distinct public performances in different contexts
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Configurations of hope at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Gillian Howell
In settings of conflict and hardship, education can be a portal through which future lives are imagined. Experiences of schooling are thus tied closely to the generation of hope and the transformation of young lives. The goal of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a vocational music school in Kabul, is to transform lives through music and education, by restoring music practices, cultural
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The social impact of music making Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Lukas Pairon
This Special Issue of Musicae Scientiae focuses on the growing field of music projects that seek to have a positive social impact. Research in this field is gaining significant momentum as musicians across the world are increasingly working on initiatives that feature a strong social dimension (see Sloboda et al., 2020). For example, these musicians are using participatory approaches to music making
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Psychometric evaluation of the Involuntary Musical Imagery Scale (IMIS) in a South African sample Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-09-19 Michael M. Pitman, Thomas Geffen, Philippa Nettleton
Involuntary musical imagery (INMI) is a common variety of musical imagery (MI) that has been a key research interest in the psychology of music over the last ten years. The Involuntary Musical Imag...
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Interval patterns are dependent on metrical position in jazz solos Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-08-28 Peter Cross, Andrew Goldman
During jazz improvisation, performers employ short recurrent musical motifs called licks. Past research has focused on the pitch, intervallic, and rhythmic characteristics of licks, but less attent...
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Listening to music to cope with everyday stressors Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Amanda E. Krause, William G. Scott, Sarah Flynn, Beatrice Foong, Kitye Goh, Stephanie Wake, Daniel Miller, Darren Garvey
Everyday stressors—the irritating and disturbing events that happen in the context of everyday life—are common. The present research examined the relationship between everyday stressors and the use of music listening as a coping mechanism. In particular, it examined the use of music listening to cope with different types of everyday stressor and examined the relationship between this usage and listener
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A systematic review of music-induced substance craving Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Michael J. Silverman, Sonia Bourdaghs, Jessica Abbazio, Amy Riegelman
Background: Conditioning- and cue-induced craving theories indicate that music has the potential to induce substance craving. A better understanding of this phenomenon could enhance treatment and prevent misuse, relapse, and overdose. Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to locate and examine studies using music to induce substance craving in humans. We sought to discover if music can
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Recovery from memory failure when recalling a memorized performance: The role of musical structure and performance cues Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Roger Chaffin, Jane Ginsborg, James Dixon, Alexander P. Demos
To perform reliably and confidently from memory, musicians must able to recover from mistakes and memory failures. We describe how an experienced singer (the second author) recovered from mistakes and gaps in recall as she periodically recalled the score of a piece of vocal music that she had memorized for public performance, writing out the music six times over a five-year period following the performance
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Expert Pianists’ Practice Perspectives: A Production and Listening Study Musicae Scientiae (IF 2.725) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Nina Johanna Loimusalo, Erkki Huovinen
The purpose of this study was to investigate how professional pianists practice music for a concert, and whether their individual cognitive orientations in such practice processes can be identified accurately from the resulting performances. In Study I, four pianists, previously found to be skilled music memorizers, practiced and performed a short piece by André Jolivet over the course of two weeks