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Musical Imagery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Musical Imagery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

An edited collection of papers which explore a large number of topics related to musical imagery. Musical imagery can be defined as our mental capacity for imagining sound in the absence of a directly-audible sound source, meaning that we can recall and re-experience or even invent new musical sound through our inner ear. The first part of the volume is focused on theoretical issues such as the history, epistemology, neurological bases, and cognitive models of musical imagery. The second part presents various applications of musical imagery in performance and composition, and provides the reader with a broad overview of the many musical activities which are concerned with musical imagery.;Musical imagery is a truly interdisciplinary subject, and it is the belief of the editors that a plurality of approaches, ranging from the introspective and philosophical to the experimental and computational, is the most fruitful strategy for exploring the subject of musical imagery.

Musical Gestures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 598

Musical Gestures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

Musical Gestures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Musical Gestures

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

'Musical Gestures' is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, and human movement science.

Notes from the Metalevel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Notes from the Metalevel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology

This book gathers a set of works highlighting significant advances in the areas of music and sound. They report on innovative music technologies, acoustics, findings in musicology, new perspectives and techniques for composition, sound design and sound synthesis, and methods for music education and therapy. Further, they cover interesting topics at the intersection between music and computing, design and social sciences. Chapters are based on extended and revised versions of the best papers presented during the 6th and 7th editions of EIMAD–Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design, held in 2020 and 2021, respectively, at the School of Applied Arts in Castelo Branco, Portugal. All in all, this book provides music researchers, educators and professionals with authoritative information about new trends and techniques, and a source of inspiration for future research, practical developments, and for establishing collaboration between experts from different fields.

Cognition and Music Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146
Hyper-specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Hyper-specializing in Saxophone Using Acoustical Insight and Deep Listening Skills

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument’s standard mouthpiece with different tone generators. Using the concrete example of the soprano saxophone, it describes how, with six other tone generators, including brass, double reed, and free reed mechanisms, the saxophone can be extended to nearly every wind instrument category in the von Hornbostel and Sachs classification system. The book demonstrates how it is possible to play these instrument variations with high proficiency, and describes the method of hyper-specialization, including acoustical insights, conservatory training methods and the underlying philosophy. The latter is based on the cultural traditions of the different wind instrument prototypes and the Deep Listening philosophy of cultivating internal diversity, and approach that leads to a new level of wind instrument virtuosity that offers great timbral variety combined with the flexibility of a regular acoustic wind instrument.

Nonlinearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Nonlinearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology

This book offers an overview of models, measurements, calculations and examples connecting musical acoustics and music psychology. Indeed, many mathematical formulations that explain musical acoustics can also be used to help predict human auditory perception.

A NIME Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

A NIME Reader

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-06
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  • Publisher: Springer

What is a musical instrument? What are the musical instruments of the future? This anthology presents thirty papers selected from the fifteen year long history of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). NIME is a leading music technology conference, and an important venue for researchers and artists to present and discuss their explorations of musical instruments and technologies. Each of the papers is followed by commentaries written by the original authors and by leading experts. The volume covers important developments in the field, including the earliest reports of instruments like the reacTable, Overtone Violin, Pebblebox, and Plank. There are also numerous papers presenting new development platforms and technologies, as well as critical reflections, theoretical analyses and artistic experiences. The anthology is intended for newcomers who want to get an overview of recent advances in music technology. The historical traces, meta-discussions and reflections will also be of interest for longtime NIME participants. The book thus serves both as a survey of influential past work and as a starting point for new and exciting future developments.