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In the Gambia, female fertility societies known as kanyeleng are made up of women who have experienced infertility or the death of a young child. They employ musical performance and fertility ritual practices to support members and promote the health of women and babies. This paper examines the changing forms of creativity and connection practiced by kanyeleng performers through engagement with social media in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation conducted in person and online (2021–2022), we show that while WhatsApp provided an opportunity for kanyeleng to build new social connections and experiment with new forms of musical creativity, it also presented challenges, including inequities in access, and increased misinformation and mistrust of health workers. Going beyond formulations of domestication of technology within private home spaces, we theorise kanyeleng domestication as a process of incorporating social media into their existing ritual practice of claiming public space and power. Finally, we argue that understanding changing forms of communication and connectedness in the Global South demands new methodological approaches to engage participants whose voices are often marginalised in research on social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article "Pulling Meaning from the Earth: Blues Singing in Song of Solomon" explores the influence of blues music in Toni Morrison's novel. Blues singing is depicted as a way for African Americans to express their struggles and find healing through art. The article delves into how blues singing in the novel represents love, promise, and a connection to the American land. It also discusses the significance of blues singing in addressing contemporary issues and offering a sense of empowerment and community. [Extracted from the article]

Editing musical texts requires a great deal of artistic, intellectual and commercial investment but, once published, an edition tends to become inert, a form of musical still life. ‘Texting Scarlatti’ explores ways of unlocking the value of a standard edition using a variety of digital tools. For as long as the editorial process in music begins and ends with analogue graphical notation, a digital music edition will inevitably be hybrid to some extent. But our project examines each stage in that process from input to output, showing how scholarly insight, performance-based musicology, data science, HCI-inspired crowdsourcing techniques and information systems can together form the basis of an open, rich digital edition for future development. Key outputs will be an extremely large machine-readable dataset consisting of more than 310,000 bars of music, together with structured, searchable apparatus for each of the 555 sonatas in the Scarlatti canon. Musicology has been a notable absentee from recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) and there is a great deal of catching-up to do. In our conclusion, we urge more scholars and publishers to make similarly large, and largely hidden, datasets more openly available for machine learning and suggest some practical steps to facilitate this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotional hardcore and other music genres featuring screamed vocals are puzzling for the appreciator. The typical fan attaches appreciative value to musical screams of emotional pain, all the while acknowledging it would be inappropriate to hold similar attitudes towards their sonically similar everyday counterpart: actual human screaming. Call this the screamed vocals problem. To solve the problem, I argue we must attend to the anti-sublimating aims that get expressed in the emotional hardcore vocalist's choice to scream the lyrics. Screamed vocals help us see the value in rejecting (a) restrictive social norms of emotional expressiveness and (b) restrictive artistic norms about how one ought to express or represent pain in art—namely that if one is going to do so, one must ensure the pain has been 'beautified'. In developing this second point, I argue that emotional hardcore is well-suited (although not individually so) for putting pressure on longstanding views in the history of aesthetics about the formal relationship between art and human pain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song" by Matt BaileyShea delves into the relationship between poetry and music, exploring concepts like rhythm, meter, and form. The book aims to make music theoretical ideas accessible through the lens of lyrics and poetry, providing interactive exercises for a wide readership. It emphasizes the significance of diction in analyzing poetry and lyrics, while also dissecting elements like meter, rhyme, lines, and syntax. The text highlights the intricate relationship between music and language, encouraging further research in the intersection of poetry and music. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides an introduction to Evald Ilyenkov's "Notes on Wagner," which explores the philosopher's passion for music, particularly Richard Wagner. It delves into the influence of Wagner on Russian composers, artists, and poets during the Silver Age and the avant-garde movement. The document also discusses the complex relationship between Wagner and Soviet culture, from his integration into the revolutionary fervor of the avant-garde to his appropriation by Stalinism. It highlights the efforts of figures like Anatoly Lunacharsky and György Lukács to establish Wagner as a model for socialist art. The document concludes by mentioning Ilyenkov's own attempt to reanimate the spirit of creative Marxism through his notes on Wagner. [Extracted from the article]

The article, "Translation of Evald Ilyenkov, 'Notes on Wagner'," explores the misconceptions surrounding composer Richard Wagner and his music. It argues that Wagner's work goes beyond his orchestration skills and should be understood as a reflection of historical events and transformations of the 19th century. The article delves into the philosophical influences on Wagner's compositions, particularly Tristan and The Ring of the Nibelung. It also discusses the significance of characters like Siegfried and the themes of gold and power in The Ring. The text concludes by analyzing the philosophical themes present in the opera and its symbolism. [Extracted from the article]

"The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses" by Joseph N. Straus is a pedagogical book that provides analyses of musical excerpts and short works by various composers from 1909 to 2016. The book includes videos that animate the graphic analyses, enhancing understanding. The analyses focus on pitch relationships and transformations in post-tonal music. The book also includes a "Post-Tonal Primer" covering key concepts. Volume 2 analyzes all of Tenney's music, excluding his juvenilia and compositions discussed in volume 1, and is recommended as a selective listening guide. Volume 1 explores Tenney's formative influences and his involvement with tape music, including his influential master's thesis on musical form. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses two books that would be of interest to scholars and students researching specific topics. The first book, "Printing Music in Renaissance Rome" by Jane A. Bernstein, explores the trade and production of music books in Rome during the sixteenth century. It examines the role of printers, publishers, and craftsmen in creating and distributing music books, highlighting the unique market in Rome and its connection to the city's economic and social climate. The second book, "William Byrd: Consort Music" by Anne Martin, focuses on the consort music of composer William Byrd. It provides a detailed analysis of Byrd's music and its historical context. The book includes music examples, illustrations, a bibliography, and an index, making it a valuable resource for scholars and performers interested in Byrd's music. The author's decision to publish the book in 2023, the 400th anniversary of Byrd's death, adds to its significance and relevance. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses a book titled "Here for the Hearing" that analyzes the musical structure of songs in musical theater and how it contributes to storytelling and character development. The book covers a range of topics, including specific shows like "Guys and Dolls," "The Rocky Horror Show," "The Last Five Years," "Fun Home," "Hamilton," and the Broadway parodies of the Kinsey Sicks. It is recommended for composers, theorists, and those interested in musical theater. The article also mentions another book called "Music in Star Trek: Sound, Utopia, and the Future," which explores the role of music in the Star Trek franchise and its portrayal of utopia. The essays in this book analyze the musical cues and title cues in the series and discuss the challenges of creating a utopian future. [Extracted from the article]

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Music is an important signal class for hearing aids, and musical genre is often used as a descriptor for stimulus selection. However, little research has systematically investigated the acoustical properties of musical genres with respect to hearing aid amplification. Here, extracts from a combination of two comprehensive music databases were acoustically analyzed. Considerable overlap in acoustic descriptor space between genres emerged. By simulating hearing aid processing, it was shown that effects of amplification regarding dynamic range compression and spectral weighting differed across musical genres, underlining the critical role of systematic stimulus selection for research on music and hearing aids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pansori, a traditional Korean form of musical storytelling, is characterized by performances involving a vocalist and a drummer. It is well-known for the singer's expressive narrative (aniri) and delicate gesture with fan in hand. The classical Pansori repertoires mostly tell love, satire, and humor, as well as some social lessons. These performances, which can extend from three to five hours, necessitate that the vocalist adheres to precise rhythmic structures. The distinctive rhythms of Pansori are crucial for conveying both the narrative and musical expression effectively. This paper explores the challenge of open-set recognition, aiming to efficiently identify unknown Pansori rhythm patterns while applying the methodology to diverse acoustic datasets, such as sound events and genres. We propose a lightweight deep learning-based encoder–decoder segmentation model, which employs a 2-D log-Mel spectrogram as input for the encoder and produces a frame-based 1-D decision along the temporal axis. This segmentation approach, processing 2-D inputs to classify frame-wise rhythm patterns, proves effective in detecting unknown patterns within time-varying sound streams encountered in daily life. Throughout the training phase, both center and supervised contrastive losses, along with cross-entropy loss, are minimized. This strategy aimed to create a compact cluster structure within the feature space for known classes, thereby facilitating the recognition of unknown rhythm patterns by allocating ample space for their placement within the embedded feature space. Comprehensive experiments utilizing various datasets—including Pansori rhythm patterns (91.8%), synthetic datasets of instrument sounds (95.1%), music genres (76.9%), and sound datasets from DCASE challenges (73.0%)—demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed method to detect unknown events, as evidenced by the AUROC metrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acoustic depth is an elusive indicator that touches the world of emergencies, or perceptual focus, in a peculiar way. The realm in which these forms of recognition operate indeed links media theory to perception theory and aesthetic reflection. Expressions such as acoustic scene, sound depth or sharpness, or acoustic image when discussing the receptive forms of various microphone models, are just a few cases where imaginative synthesis translates the sense of phenomena arising from the resistance of sensory properties to the structures of linguistic formalization. The language of media is full of these references, which seem to refer to a common sense that emerges in the differentiation of perceptual channels, but is rarely made explicit in a clear manner. To understand acoustic depht's nature, we can use the concept of emergence: every time we hear a sound, that acoustic process is always surrounded by a myriad of small sounds that interact with it. The notion of emergence can be applied to anything present in the surrounding environment. It can be applied to any configuration that breaks the homogeneity of a perceptual field. So, we can analyze the complexity of this synthetic formation by tracing it back to increasingly simpler synthetic planes. When talking about composition, synthesis, and association, it has already the results of compositional operations and which provided the ultimate or primary material – either term suffices, depending on the direction we choose to take. These are essential factors in spatial orientation processes, but they are structurally opaque: we'll work on three examples taken from classical music, ethnomusicology, and hearing aids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While a majority of the Second World War-based musicals tend to glorify America's heroism and downplay or ignore its injustices, Jay Kuo's (2015) musical Allegiance centres on the unlawful incarceration of over one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese American civilians held in American concentration camps during the war, which is a history that many Americans continue not to be aware of. Through foregrounding Jessica Nakamura's framework of response-ability, this article considers the ways Allegiance activates it, through the use of spectral embodiment as a means to engage ghosts of Japanese diasporic war memory, especially as it relates to the portrayal of the historical figure Mike Masaoka and a staging of the Hiroshima bombing. Allegiance's staging of ghosts is similarly interrogated within a musical where unsettled personal trauma conjures ghosts of the past that must be settled by characters like the protagonist, Sammy Kimura, who enters a dialogic relationship with them. Through analysing press materials, onstage performances, interviews and documentary content, this article highlights how transnational connections and transgenerational response-ability are staged to help cope with and remember Japanese and Japanese American experiences. It similarly discusses how the musical form aided and inhibited the show's meaning to and resonance with audiences throughout Allegiance's production history. Through settling and unsettling the dead, this article considers how Allegiance enshrines personal, communal and national memories about wartime incarceration into a piece of art that serves educational and reparative purposes for the production companies and audiences who experienced the show on and off-Broadway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the criteria used to ascertain whether or not, and how, ancient Chinese bronze bells might form sets of musical instruments, thus clarifying their original intended use by ancient musicians. The focus is on ten bells unearthed from Changsha city in Hunan province in China, which date to the twelfth century BCE. A range of diverse relationships between these bells provide valuable insights that can be explored. Debate is ongoing among music historians regarding the nature of the bells. Some argue that the ten bells do not constitute a set of musical instruments because their designs and acoustic properties lack sufficient similarity and correlation. Conversely, another group of historians suggests that nine of the ten bells could indeed be seen as a set, but with the tenth bell being an outlier due to its distinct design. The third group of historians contends that the ten bells should be considered a musical set because of their organized sequence of consecutive semi-tones, while the design differences of the bells are less significant and can be overlooked if we focus on their musical functions. In this study, we scrutinize the assumptions made by these music historians, including their definitions of design similarity and the sequence of progressive pitches. Further previously overlooked criteria, such as the geographical proximity of these ten bells and others found in neighboring areas, and the incremental changes in the bell sizes, are also considered. Through the use of these criteria we aim to explore a wide range of relationships between ancient Chinese bells and to reassess what other new evidence the bells may offer to the study of ancient Chinese musical concepts. The concept of the chromatic scale discovered by ancient Chinese musicians was embodied on the casting of bronze bells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The originality of instrumental musical interpretation is a distinctive feature of each musician, influencing and reflecting their artistic style and worldview ideas. The study aims to determine the peculiarities of the influence of an individual teaching method on the development of instrumental musicians' performance skills. General theoretical analysis, comparison and observation techniques were used to achieve this goal. The final results were also based on the skill level coefficient, quality coefficient, and Mann-Whitney test calculations. The research process provided for developing individualized training for future instrumental musicians, focusing on developing interpretive and technical skills, artistic interpretation and improvisation. The practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of using the developed individual approaches to teaching musicians-instrumentalists, taking into account their capabilities. Prospects for further research can be to compare the effectiveness of an individual approach to teaching musicians-instrumentalists of primary school age and students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the research. The paper reveals the features of the approaches of academic musicians to the creativity of ―The Beatles‖ and characterises the musical projects created on the basis of the song heritage of the legendary British group. The research methodology consists in the application of historical cultural, comparative and musical analytical methods, which allowed to reveal the academic potential of ―The Beatles‖ music and outline the ways and directions of academisation of their song creativity. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that for the first time academic interpretations of the songs of ―The Beatles‖ group, carried out by L. Berio, J. Bayless and P. Breiner, were characterised, and two approaches to musical transcriptions of the song heritage of the group were outlined - academic and academicized, the type corresponds to all the parameters of academic music, the second gravitates towards classical crossover as a direction of pop music. Conclusions. Among the numerous cover versions, transcriptions and paraphrases of ―The Beatles‖ music, a number of original musical interpretations are attractive, the authors of which turn to the Baroque style. The vocal cycle ―Beatles Songs‖ by L. Berio (1967), the instrumental albums ―Bach Meets the Beatles‖ (1984), ―Bach Meets the Beatles. Revisited‖ (2004) by J. Bayless and ―Beatles Go Baroque‖ (1993) by P. Breiner have already acquired the status of iconic. Their authors, who received a classical musical education, give priority to academic interpretive versions, where the songs of ―The Beatles‖ group are considered as thematic material, which becomes the basis for academic type compositions with classical musical dramaturgy formed in the instrumental music of the Modern period. A number of compositions, in which the basic features of a song are preserved, gravitate towards academicized type interpretations, approaching a classical crossover, and can represent both academic and pop musical creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines Carolyn Cooper's intellectual project as a practice of noisy disturbance that anchors her conceptualization of Jamaican literary and cultural discourses within the concrete materiality and exteriority of the island's historical, cultural, socioeconomic, and linguistic realities. Using Edward Said's notion of worldliness, the essay argues that Cooper articulates this via three related tropes—noises, border clashes, and the vulgar body—that address the politics of Jamaican linguistic and cultural hierarchies. Cooper's two groundbreaking publications, Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) are read schematically as strategic interventions that privilege a multifarious disturbing and transgressive orality. Cooper's work is deliberately and self-consciously invested in disturbing and disrupting cultural and linguistic shibboleths that accord epistemological nullity and ontological invalidity to Jamaican vernacular discourses such as Jamaican Creole/Patwa and the musical genres of reggae and dancehall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the intercultural significance of jazz for the development of Chinese pop music? The main content of this dissertation is to study and discuss the period when jazz music entered China and how it affects the development of past and present Chinese pop music. In today's society, intercultural research is ubiquitous. Since the birth of civilization, people from different disciplines and artistic fields have been trying to build cultural bridges.1 China has a long history of culture and music development. With the changes of the times, China's music civilization has been continuously developed and changed with the replacement of various dynasties in the past. In addition, Confucius's Confucianism has influenced the development of Chinese music and music education. The history of jazz music is not very long, but it has become an indispensable element of today's social music culture. Perhaps it is because jazz has rich musical style features, such as improvisation and unique jazz scales. In addition, the musical content of its expression is democratic and free. The musical form of Jazz music originated in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is a combination of African black culture and European white culture. It is a kind of "hybrid" music form that affects the development of Chinese music with deep-rooted civilization, especially some Chinese pop music. The dissertation will study how jazz integrates Chinese music to produce Chinese pop music, as well as the intercultural influence of jazz, and how Jazz affects the pop singers of Chinese pop music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we can understand about the different styles of music practiced by the musicians of the Gandharba community of Nepal and the adjoining regions. These styles of music have been studied and listed. Some of these styles of music belong exclusively to the Gandharba community, while some belong to neighboring communities. All of the musical forms belong to communities residing in the central Himalayan region comprising of the country of Nepal and the adjoining Indian territories. These musical forms represent the rich cultural heritage of the Gandharba community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Time and again there have been constant attempts to adapt various kinds of instruments to Indian art music. Santūr - the folk instrument of the Jammu-Kashmir region of India has seen a similar transformation to suit the classicality of hindustāni music. Today, it is considered among the leading solo-performing instruments. This study attempts to analyse the live concert performances of rāga bāgēśrī on santūr, available in the public domain. Based on the musical output, quantitative analysis has been undertaken for the different musical forms performed in the rāga presentation. Subsequently, a detailed qualitative analysis of the introductory ālāp segment has been conducted for the parameters viz. range of svara-s, unique and unusual rāga phrases, anchoring on svara-s, oscillatory embellishments, and nyāsatva. By mapping the prayōga (lakṣya, practical) to the śāstra (lakṣaṇa, theory) descriptions of the rāga, the study analyses and attempts to gain a perspective on understanding the congruences and divergences of lakṣya and lakṣaṇa in the performance of rāga bāgēśrī on santūr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper investigates the problem of the time arrow in terms of artistic creation. The statistical model of artwork signal processing is established in order to identify a duality relation between psychological and intrinsic time. The intrinsic time is linked to the time operator of wavelets, and the psychological one is metaphorically related to the spatial domain of an artwork. The increase of irreducible randomness along the timeline is formulated by the second law of thermodynamics. The dual statement concerns an increase in statistical complexity, which is the definition of self-organization. In that manner, two arrows of time which are opposed and dual to each other are recognized. The authors have indicated a link to the theory of musical forms, the originality issue, and the perspective problem. Some repercussions for art theory, neuroaesthetics, and psychophysics have also been implied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medium of performance is a common way of finding musical works, and the recently developed Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) improves access to medium of performance in bibliographic records compared to legacy standards. This article describes use of the "Music Form Genre" tool developed by Gary Strawn to add LCMPT terms, genre/form terms, and other updates to batches of bibliographic records for music scores for chamber music (Western art music composed for small ensembles). Additionally, URIs for name headings were added to the records in anticipation of future linked data developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Songs, regarded as a form of musical expression, consistently mirror societal culture. This research aims to unveil and analyze the song tegalan, which serves as a portrayal of Tegal's cultural identity. The research employs a qualitative descriptive methodology. Data collection for this study involved scrutinizing tegalan songs, particularly their lyrical content, with the purpose of comprehending the themes depicting the unique identity of the Tegal community. In addition to observation, the researcher conducted in-depth interviews with three notable tegalan song artists. A literature review was also undertaken to corroborate the research findings. The collected data was then distilled to extract information pertinent to the research theme, which was subsequently presented based on the interpretation of Tegal's cultural identity and then conclusively analyzed. The research findings indicate that within the lyrics of tegalan songs, four cultural identities are discernible: (1) the utilization of colloquial Javanese infused with the "ngapak" dialect; (2) the characteristic of spontaneous and sincere communication reflective of the Tegal community's culture; (3) the identity of coastal communities, which tend to exhibit straightforwardness; and (4) the diverse range of typical Tegal delicacies such as "sega ponggol", tea with palm sugar ("teh poci gula batu"), among others. Based on these findings, it can be inferred that tegalan songs, in terms of their lyrical content, epitomize the linguistic culture of the Tegal community in both structure and communicative patterns. Moreover, in terms of messaging, these songs convey insights into the identity and distinctive attributes of the Tegal community.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"The Music of James Tenney" by Robert Wannamaker is a two-volume study of the life and work of composer James Tenney. The first volume provides a chronological overview of Tenney's stylistic periods and focuses on three key concerns in his career: a rejection of musical self-expression, the use of "top-down" compositional designs, and an interest in the interplay of rational structures and bodily sensations. The second volume analyzes all of Tenney's music, providing a listening guide for readers. Wannamaker's analyses encourage readers to explore different listening experiences and offer insights into Tenney's unique body of work. [Extracted from the article]

A song is composed of a series of tones that form a melody and support musical elements. It uses the tones of a human voice to beautifully and meaningfully express thoughts or feelings The combination of a song with a lively poem (text) can stir up a lot of emotions in the audience and have a major effect on their soul. This study aims to explore the emotions evoked by Kemas Anwar Beck's lyrics for his song Nasib Kulo and how his experiences show up in using language and wordplay to give his lyrics a unique and appealing quality. The study focuses on analyzing the content of the song lyrics and interpreting their meaning in a qualitative descriptive manner. A semiotic theory is used to decipher the meaning of the lyrics that were penned in polite Palembang Alus language. Moreover, a musicology approach is also used to analyze the musical form. The results show that the song Nasib Kulo uses two types of symbols, namely, verbal meaning in the form of poetry or lyrics and non-verbal meaning in the form of song elements, that is, chord progression, melody, tempo, and dynamics. As a result of the creativity of the artist, the mindset of life conception and lifestyle are reflected in his artwork. In conclusion, the song Nasib Kulo that is written in Palembang Alus language is very influential for individuals and communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with an teaching activity which uses folk songs as a source of information about nature. Pupils use lyrics of folk songs to reconstruct which animal and plant species our ancestors were acquainted with: They compile a list of species mentioned there. From a didactic point of view, the designed inquiry is related to econarratology, in terms of content it mainly touches ethnobiology. Depending on teacher´s intervention, this inquiry can be either structured, or guided. Pupils´ research is interdisciplinary as it interconnects biology (an inventory of species) to music education (folk song as an unique musical form), history (the contemporary trend called animal turn) and Czech language (folk literature, dialects, formation of the Czech scientific nomenclature). Its main goal is to make pupils familiar with partial steps of scientific research and methodological concepts involved (such as representative sample, data interpretation, research limitations, etc.). Moreover, the activity draws attention to disciplines on the boundaries of natural and social sciences and it points out to works of art as a potencial source of information about nature. The activity allows number of variations and it is suitable for elementary school pupils. No special equipment is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to reveal the characteristics of ensemble music-making through the prism of theory, practice, and aesthetics. The research methods are based on the use of a comprehensive approach, combining theoretical methods to elucidate the essence of ensemble performance, its main principles, and the possibility of extrapolating them into the practical and aesthetic sphere; synthesis method - to reveal the essence of ensemble performance in the combination of all its components. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that, for the first time, the problem of ensemble performance is considered comprehensively as a holistic theoretical, practical, and aesthetic system, within the context of multi-level connections revealing general patterns of development of performing professionalism. Conclusions. Even ancient Greek philosophers emphasised the uniqueness of ensemble performance among various forms of musical expression. For centuries, this type of musical practice has been positioned as the highest form of manifestation of the human spirit. Musical ensemble exists in two dimensions: personal and communicative, where these two constants in combination allow successfully realising the composer's intention. Ensemble performance possesses a powerful intellectual, spiritual, emotional consolidating influence, realised in the practice of musical "communication." The peculiarities of the process of collective music-making in ensemble performance, close creative contact with partners, imply a high level of control during the creation of an artistic whole. In the embodiment of collective interpretation, "creative experience" is transformed into "creative co-experience". Ensemble performance is a complex and multifaceted process that requires musicians to have specific ensemble performance characteristics that develop only in conditions of collective music-making. It is an important means of shaping the personality of the musician and developing their creative abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the concept of tonal hearing and its significance in the study of music. It delves into the historical and cultural context of tonality, particularly its association with European art music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The author raises questions about the assumptions and limitations of tonal hearing, especially when applied to early music and other musical traditions. The article advocates for a more inclusive and diverse approach to music analysis that incorporates non-Western perspectives. Additionally, it mentions the book "Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century," which received the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory in 2020. The book explores tonal expectation during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, providing insights into the understanding of homophonic music during that time period. [Extracted from the article]

How can absence make presence become? The question turns a usual notion of form inside out; it subverts normative habits in drawing distinctions. If we adapt the models of time by which we might consider such things (and not-things), the relational terms of form can shift. Two lines of inquiry are pursued in this article. The first is an investigation of form and its relation to time. The second is an exploration of paradox in describing forms of art. Both are cybernetic in their framework and approach. The 'Hastig' ('Hastily') movement of Robert Schumann's 1839 piano work Humoreske is the form that serves as site for the two inquiries to intertwine. Its construction presents a paradox through which form and time may be called into question. In considering Schumann's composition as a re-conceiving of form and time, an idea emerges; art can make us aware of the constraints and possibilities of our models and our experiences of paradox in living with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Clara Wieck Schumann: Art of Preluding and Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann are two albums that contribute to the re-appreciation of Clara Schumann's work as a performer, composer, and educator. These albums provide insights into Clara Schumann's approach to piano playing and teaching, emphasizing the importance of tone and musicality. The albums showcase the technical and harmonic range of Clara Schumann's preludes and compositions, highlighting her compositional and performative qualities. Both albums offer a deeper understanding of Clara Schumann's talent and innovative genius. [Extracted from the article]