“With a Little Help from my Friends”: Exploring Pseudo-Social Music Listening Experiences - Scott...

Contemporary research highlights intimate connections between music and social bonding, such that even modern music listening behaviors, including listening whe...

The Training of Rhythm Skills and Executive Function: A Systematic Review - J. Riikka Ahokas, Suvi...

Objective The focus of this study is on rhythm-elicited movement and its impacts on executive function. The main aim of this review was to identify previous, co...

Evaluation of Tone Quality in Piano Performance by Sight and Sound: A Performer's Perspective -...

In the present study, a classically trained pianist aimed to investigate whether the visual cues in her performance influenced observers’ evaluation of her sing...

Seizing the Life of Sounds in Contemporary Instrumental Music: Claude Vivier’s Zipangu (1980), a...

This essay has been conceived as an invitation into the workshop of the contemporary music analyst. It aims to familiarize scholars who are interested in but un...

Exploring the Comprehensibility of Ten Different Musical Notation Systems and Underlying Factors -...

Numerous systems of musical notation have been developed to address some of the complexities associated with conventional Staff notation, such as translating it...

Music and Mental Imagery: Editorial - Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi, Solange Glasser, 2024

Musical Reward in Young Children - Haley E. Kragness, Kendra Mehl, Amy M. Belfi, 2024

Musical pleasure stems from an interplay of social, emotional, and cognitive factors. In adults, there are large individual differences in musical reward, with ...

Kutanga, Mujimbu, and the Tacit Orchestration of Events Among the Luvale of Zambia1 - Jason...

Orchestration is an established topic in various music disciplines yet is a rare focus in ethnomusicology. This paper offers a modest remedy by asserting that c...

Audio-Visual Interactions Between Music and the Natural Environment: Self-Reported Assessments and...

The interaction between music and the environment has been widely investigated in various domains; however, the effects of music on the perception of outdoor en...

Body Awareness of the Orofacial Area in Wind and Brass Instrumentalists: An Observational Study -...

Background Woodwind and brass instrumentalists have a high sensomotoric demand of their orofacial region while playing their instrument. Orofacial problems (OFP...

The Danish Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index: Validation in Samples with Different Degrees of...

Convenience sampling is often used in music psychology research, leading to an overrepresentation of young participants with high socio-economic status and pote...

Age- and Sex-Related Differences in Music Requests on a Radio Show for Children - Markus von Berg,...

In research on the development of musical preferences, children are often asked either to evaluate musical pieces that have been previously selected by adult ex...

Identifying Peking Opera Roles Through Vocal Timbre: An Acoustical and Conceptual Comparison...

Chinese jingju (Peking opera) typically distinguishes several stock character types differentiated by narrative function, appearance, and vocal timbre. Though a...

Sonic Bouquet: Decoding Cross-Modal Correspondences Between Timbre and Scent - Asterios Zacharakis,...

The examination of cross-modal correspondences between auditory and olfactory senses opens up an intriguing perspective into the study of extra-musical meaning....

An Interdisciplinary Timbral Analysis of “ringtone,” by 100 gecs - Lindsey Reymore, 2024

In this close analysis of the song “ringtone” by 100 gecs, I unpack the dialectic of noisy and clean timbres, exploring this theme narratively, acoustically, an...

Learning, Understanding, Remembering: The Collective Experiences of Musical Memory of Twelve...

The intention of this basic qualitative study was to investigate the ways in which professional guitarists describe their musical memory, in an attempt to devel...

Categorization of Typical and Atypical Combinations of Excitations and Resonators of Musical...

Sound categorization is automatic, yet very little is known about how this process works. Physical sound sources such as musical instruments generate sounds tha...

“Beautiful Tone, Beautiful Heart?” Shinichi Suzuki's Pedagogy of Sound and Self - Lindsay J....

Among performers and pedagogues of string instruments, “tone” is a term summoned often and valued deeply, yet seldom defined. While many traditional teaching ap...

Motivation in Learning Musical Instruments: The Role of Parents, Teachers, and Friends - Fanni...

Motivation plays a crucial role in learning, particularly when mastering a musical instrument. However, it remains a relatively unexplored area in Hungarian res...

Neurologically Motivated Simulation of Ensemble Performance - Nima Darabi, U. Peter Svensson, Paul...

A “rhythmic agent” is simulated based on the foundation of a previously published behavioral sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) model. The model is adjustable t...