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Hindustani raga and singer classification using 2D and 3D pose estimation from video recordings (2024)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., Li, J., Clarke, A., & Weinzierl, M. (online). Hindustani raga and singer classification using 2D and 3D pose estimation from video recordings. Journal of New Music Research, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2331788

Using pose estimation with video recordings, we apply an action recognition machine learning algorithm to demonstrate the use of the movement information to classify singers and the ragas (melodic modes) they perform. Movement information is derived... Read More about Hindustani raga and singer classification using 2D and 3D pose estimation from video recordings.

Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony (2024)
Journal Article
Kim, S. (2024). Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony. Music Analysis, 43(1), 36-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12224

The timeworn view that Bruckner's sonata form is a motionless architecture devoid of dynamic processes has long contributed his isolation from the mainstream post-Beethovenian tradition. Taking inspiration from August Halm's (1914) and Ernst Kurth's... Read More about Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony.

Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries (2024)
Journal Article
Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J. A., Cameron, D. J., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., …McDermott, J. H. (2024). Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 846–877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9

Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 participant groups in 15 countries, spanning urban societies... Read More about Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.

Canons and the test of time and place (2024)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, A., Parakilas, J., & Barnes, M. (2024). Canons and the test of time and place. In A. Hamilton (Ed.), Art and Entertainment: A Philosophical Exploration. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429485435-11

At the time of writing, Lubaina Himid has an exhibition at Tate Modern. A British artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage, and key figure in the British Black arts scene since the 1980s, she is internationally recognised for her figurative paintings, which... Read More about Canons and the test of time and place.

Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords (2024)
Journal Article
Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2024). Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 41(3), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.3.161

This study tested whether chords that do not differ in acoustic roughness but that have distinct affective connotations are strong enough to prime negative and positive associations measurable with an affective priming method. We tested whether music... Read More about Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords.

Music, Memory, and Imagination (2024)
Journal Article
Margulis, E. H., & Jakubowski, K. (2024). Music, Memory, and Imagination. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(2), 108-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231217229

This article argues that the capacity of music to reliably cue both autobiographical memories and fictional imaginings can be leveraged to better understand the relationship and interdependence between memory and imagination more generally. The multi... Read More about Music, Memory, and Imagination.

A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study (2024)
Journal Article
Steliou, C., & Jakubowski, K. (2024). A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study. Music & Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231225733

Despite more than a century of research on music memorization and practicing strategies, there is a lack of comprehensive evidence on how instrumental music teachers teach memorization to children and adolescents in one-to-one lessons. The present qu... Read More about A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study.

Gagaku (2023)
Digital Artefact
Clayton, M., Kamata, S., Takaoka, A., & Tarsitani, S. (2023). Gagaku. [[Media unknown]]

"Einheit", "Freiheit", and Vormärz Aesthetics: Political ventures through formal strategies in Ferdinand David's Violin Concerti (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mitterer, D. (2023, December). "Einheit", "Freiheit", and Vormärz Aesthetics: Political ventures through formal strategies in Ferdinand David's Violin Concerti. Paper presented at 2023 AMS Annual Meeting, Denver

The German Vormärz (1815–49) was a time of cultural reform that renegotiated the individual’s place in society through the interplay of aesthetics and politics (Garratt 2010). In this paper I ask how violin concerti from this period interrogate the p... Read More about "Einheit", "Freiheit", and Vormärz Aesthetics: Political ventures through formal strategies in Ferdinand David's Violin Concerti.

Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals (2023)
Journal Article
Armitage, J., Lahdelma, I., Eerola, T., & Ambrazevičius, R. (2023). Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals. PLoS ONE, 18(12), Article e0294645. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294645

There is debate whether the foundations of consonance and dissonance are rooted in culture or in psychoacoustics. In order to disentangle the contribution of culture and psychoacoustics, we considered automatic responses to the perfect fifth and the... Read More about Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals.

The Human Affectome (2023)
Journal Article
Schiller, D., Yu, A. N., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., Eslinger, P. J., Frewen, P., Kemp, A. H., Pace-Schott, E. F., Raber, J., Silton, R. L., Stefanova, E., Williams, J. H., Abe, N., Aghajani, M., Albrecht, F., Alexander, R., Anders, S., Aragón, O. R., …Lowe, L. (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, Article 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450

Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett (2023)
Journal Article
Agawu, K., Bhogal, G. K., Cavett, E., Dunsby, J., Horton, J., Monchick, A., …Zagorski‐Thomas, S. (2023). Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett. Music Analysis, 42(3), 412-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12221

Julian Horton's 2020 article on the ‘necessity of analysis’ delineates previous critiques of music analysis into the performative and the historicist and counters their assumptions. He proposes that analysis remains viable in light of historical, ont... Read More about Valuing the Surplus: Perspectives on Julian Horton's Article ‘On the Musicological Necessity of Music Analysis’, Musical Quarterly, 3/i–ii, pp. 62–104.Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Esther Cavett, Jonathan Dunsby, Julian Horton, Alexandra Monchick, Ian Pace, Henry Stobart and Simon Zagorski‐Thomas, compiled and edited by Esther Cavett.

The Amateur and the Professional in Wuhan’s Park Pop (2023)
Book Chapter
Horlor, S. (2023). The Amateur and the Professional in Wuhan’s Park Pop. In J. P. J. Stock, & Y. Hui (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora (431-451). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190661960.013.26

Singers who present versions of Chinese pop classics at daily shows in the parks of Wuhan make good livings from cash tips offered by supporters in the audience. While this may be reason to think of them as “professional” musicians, they also derive... Read More about The Amateur and the Professional in Wuhan’s Park Pop.

Landscape/Music (2023)
Book Chapter
Weeks, J. (2023). Landscape/Music. In S. Mahler Kraaz, & C. de Mille (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music and Art (293-299). Bloomsbury

British composer James Weeks discusses the evolution of visuality in his work, from emulation of the abstract painting of Antoni Tàpies to more recent, ecologically-oriented scores. The entanglement of our sensory stimuli leads to a fundamentally mul... Read More about Landscape/Music.

Signaling Seduction: The Courtship Strategies of Ming Era Courtesans (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, S. (online). Signaling Seduction: The Courtship Strategies of Ming Era Courtesans. Ming Studies, 34-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/0147037x.2023.2249327

This study applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Ming period courtesans (ji 妓) and their activities, combining the close reading of literature and Ming era visual presentations, with insights drawn from the fields of modern courtship... Read More about Signaling Seduction: The Courtship Strategies of Ming Era Courtesans.