El present article procura descriure l'estat de la qüestió actualitzat referit a l'estatus de la música en l'aparell teòric cinematogràfic i audiovisual. És a dir, procurem indagar en l'espai que la ...teoria ha atorgat a la música en el seu aparell teòric des d'un punt de vista sincrònic. Es fa una prospecció de l'estat general de la disciplina, es descriuen els dos paradigmes de la relació imatge-música detectats a la bibliografia i també es referencien algunes de les paradoxes teòriques que sorgeixen en la relació imatge-música. Finalment, es proposa una definició original de l'estatus de la música en l'audiovisual que concretem en un model de tres estatus de la música en relació a la imatge: l'estructural-ontològic, el narratiu-funcional i el poètic-autònom.
Tonal harmony is one of the central organization systems of Western music. This article characterizes the statistical foundations of tonal harmony based on the computational analysis of expert ...annotations in a large corpus. Using resampling methods, this study shows that 1) the rank-frequency distribution of chords resembles a power law, i.e. few chords govern a large proportion of the data; 2) chord transitions are referential and chord predictability is significantly affected by distinguished chord features; 3) tonal harmony conveys directedness in time; and 4) tonal harmony operates differently at the hierarchical levels of chords and keys. These results serve to characterize tonal harmony on empirical grounds and advance the methodological state-of-the-art in digital musicology.
The inspiration for this creative work was drawn from my participation in the annual Lopburi merit-making ceremony at Wat Mahathat Lopburi, also known as Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat, which is a ...significant religious site in the ancient city of Lopburi. The symbolism enshrined within the intricate architecture of the temple sparked my interest in the possibility of performing arts being used as a vehicle to protect the religious meanings and heritage of the temple. The creative process involved conducting surveys and gathering empirical evidence from Wat Phra Sri Rattana Mahathat, analyzing and categorizing the temple’s distinct patterns and stories across different eras. This interdisciplinary approach was used as a model for the eight-step creative process to produce new knowledge about the religious site. The main product of this investigation was a three-act play in traditional Thai musical style. Tableaux vivants were also created to accompany the performance. The play aimed to showcase the cultural and religious significance of the temple and promote the preservation of its unique cultural heritage. By using singing as a vehicle to protect the religious meanings and heritage of the temple, this creative work offers a unique perspective on the preservation of religious heritage and promotes the continued significance of religion in contemporary Thai society.
Musical expertise entails meticulous stylistic specialisation and enculturation. Even so, research on musical training effects has focused on generalised comparisons between musicians and ...non-musicians, and cross-cultural work addressing specialised expertise has traded cultural specificity and sensitivity for other methodological limitations. This study aimed to experimentally dissociate the effects of specialised stylistic training and general musical expertise on the perception of melodies. Non-musicians and professional musicians specialising in classical music or jazz listened to sampled renditions of saxophone solos improvised by Charlie Parker in the bebop style. Ratings of explicit uncertainty and expectedness for different continuations of each melodic excerpt were collected. An information-theoretic model of expectation enabled selection of stimuli affording highly certain continuations in the bebop style, but highly uncertain continuations in the context of general tonal expectations, and vice versa. The results showed that expert musicians have acquired probabilistic characteristics of music influencing their experience of expectedness and predictive uncertainty. While classical musicians had internalised key aspects of the bebop style implicitly, only jazz musicians' explicit uncertainty ratings reflected the computational estimates, and jazz-specific expertise modulated the relationship between explicit and inferred uncertainty data. In spite of this, there was no evidence that non-musicians and classical musicians used a stylistically irrelevant cognitive model of general tonal music providing support for the theory of cognitive firewalls between stylistic models in predictive processing of music.
Musicians’ body behaviour has a preponderant role in audience perception. We investigated how performers’ motion is perceived depending on the musical style and musical expertise. To further explore ...the effect of visual input, stimuli were presented in audio-only, audio–visual and visual-only conditions. We used motion and audio recordings of expert saxophone players playing two contrasting excerpts (positively and negatively valenced). For each excerpt, stimuli represented five motion degrees with increasing quantity of motion (QoM) and distinct predominant gestures. In the experiment (online and in-person), 384 participants rated performance recordings for expressiveness, professionalism and overall quality. Results revealed that, for the positively valenced excerpt, ratings increased as a function of QoM, whilst for the negatively valenced, the recording with predominant flap motion was favoured. Musicianship did not have a significant effect in motion perception. Concerning multisensory integration, both musicians and non-musicians presented visual dominance in the positively valenced excerpt, whereas in the negatively valenced, musicians shifted to auditory dominance. Our findings demonstrate that musical style not only determines the way observers perceive musicians’ movement as adequate, but also that it can promote changes in multisensory integration.
The global popularity of the Korean K-pop group BTS, backed by its devoted fanbase ARMY, continues to raise questions surrounding transnational and transcultural flows of hybridized popular cultures ...in an era of new media technologies. Drawing on theories of transcultural fandom, this article examines BTS within, and as a product of, these hybridized transcultural flows of content and identity. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the popularity of BTS is explored in the context of fans' social media use and in their identification with BTS through the group's online content, music, and image of authenticity. The use of social media is significant not only in terms of access to BTS content but to fannish practices of consuming such content. Flows of meaning and affect between BTS and fans are also mediated through social media, suggesting that hybridized popular culture is circulated not only through transnational flows of content but also transcultural constructions of affective investment and identity.
The Chromatics of the Blues Sayers, William
ANQ (Lexington, Ky.),
04/2022, Letnik:
35, Številka:
2
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Color words in the written records of western European languages have a long history, particularly complex as a consequence of peoples in dynamic contact through aggression and migration, resulting ...in language overlay and substitution. The generally accepted explanation of the blues as a state of the heart is that it is an abbreviated reference to the concept of blue devils, supernatural beings who burden humans with depressed moods and thoughts. Today, speakers' references to the blues of mood and music - monochromatic, one might say - like earlier historically short-sighted explanations of the origin of the word blue in these uses, can have little awareness of the complex linguistic DNA inherent in these expressions nor of the range of actors on this lexical stage, from Thomas Jefferson to Howlin' Wolf.
What the music said: narrative listening across cultures Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth; Wong, Patrick C. M.; Simchy-Gross, Rhimmon ...
Humanities & social sciences communications,
11/2019, Letnik:
5, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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Abstract
Instrumental music can seem to tell engrossing stories without the use of words, but it is unclear what leads to this narrativization. Although past work has investigated narrative responses ...to abstract moving shapes, very little work has studied the emergence of narrative perceptions in response to nonlinguistic sound. We measured narrative responses to wordless Western and Chinese music in participants in the US and in a cluster of villages in a rural part of China using a Narrative Engagement (NE) scale developed specifically for this project. Despite profound differences in media exposure, musical habits, and narrative traditions, narrative listening was employed by many participants and associated with enjoyment in both groups; however, the excerpts that unleashed this response were culture-specific. We show that wordless sound is capable of triggering perceived narratives in two groups of listeners with highly distinct patterns of cultural exposure, reinforcing the notion that narrativization itself is a readily available mode of experiencing music. The particular sounds that trigger narrativization, however, rely on enculturation processes, as demonstrated by the within-culture consistency, but between-culture divergence in the specific excerpts that led to narrative engagement. Narratives can emerge in multiple modalities, including wordless sound, but association patterns specific to individual cultures critically shape how apparently abstract sound patterns come to acquire deep meaning and significance to people.
Banding together Lena, Jennifer C
2012., 20120212, 2012, 2012-02-12
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Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of ...twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside the United States--Jennifer Lena uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language and evolution of popular music.
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