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Content and Correlational Analysis of a Corpus of MTV-Promoted Music Videos Aired Between 1990 and 1999
(SAGE Publications, 2020-03-02)From 1990 to 1999 MTV promoted a series of 288 music videos called “Buzz Clips”, designed to highlight emerging artists and genres. Such promotion had a measurable impact on an artists’ earnings and record sales. To date, ... -
A Survey of Neonatal Nurses Perspectives on Voice Use and Auditory Needs with Premature Infants in the NICU
(MDPI, 2021-08-11)Background: Exposure to the voice and language during the critical period of auditory development associated with the third trimester is thought to be an essential building block for language. Differences in the auditory ... -
Music History and Ethnicity from Prague to Indiana: Paul Nettl, Eighteenth-Century Bohemia and Germanness
(Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019-04)Bohemian-American musicologist Paul Nettl spent an early part of his career in Prague but emigrated to the United States in 1939, after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. This article examines Nettl’s writings on ... -
Strumming, Fingerpicking, and Hybrid Accompaniment Patterns for Guitar: A Systematic Introduction to Technique and Styles for Music Therapy and Music Education
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019)This work is one part of a three-part Open Educational Resource (OER) that teaches students how to play the guitar as an accompaniment instrument, facilitating technical, theoretical, and ear skill development that can ... -
Chord Progression Handbook For Guitar, Piano, and Other Accompaniment Instruments
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019)This work is one part of a three-part Open Educational Resource (OER) that teaches students how to play the guitar as an accompaniment instrument, facilitating technical, theoretical, and ear skill development that can ... -
Guitar Chord Handbook: An Introduction to Commonly Used Chords For Music Therapy and Music Education Students
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019)This work is one part of a three-part Open Educational Resource (OER) that teaches students how to play the guitar as an accompaniment instrument, facilitating technical, theoretical, and ear skill development that can ... -
An Open Educational Resource for the Analysis of Music Video
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2018-09-18)This Open Education Resource (OER) teaches students how to analyze and interpret music videos from 1981 to the present. Assuming no prior knowledge in any area, the text takes students through three major units (music ... -
Mozart, Da Ponte, and Censorship: Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte at the Vienna Court Theater, 1798-1804
(2018)On July 10, 1798, the German ensemble at the Vienna court theater presented the premiere performance of Die Hochzeit des Figaro, the first production of Mozart and Da Ponte’s Le nozze di Figaro – and indeed of any Mozart-Da ... -
Lessons from Lithuania: A pedagogical approach in teaching improvisation
(Sage, 2017-05-01)The purpose of this study was to uncover the approach that a professor in Lithuania utilized in successfully teaching undergraduate music education majors how to improvise during a one-semester course. The research questions ... -
Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni, Operatic Canon, and National Politics in Nineteenth-Century Prague
(University of California Press, 2018-03-01)After the enormous success of Le nozze di Figaro at Prague's Nostitz Theater in 1786 and the world premiere of Don Giovanni there in 1787, Mozart's operas became canonic works in the Bohemian capital, with numerous ... -
Towards a Skills-Based Curriculum: Recent Trends in Music History Pedagogy
(Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016)The Information Age poses a crucial dilemma for musicologists. If our courses value the dissemination of knowledge as a primary goal, then we must find a way to compete with the vast oceans of knowledge at our students' ... -
Neural Processing of Emotional Musical and Nonmusical Stimuli in Depression
(Public Library of Science, 2016-06-10)Background Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and striatum are part of the emotional neural circuitry implicated in major depressive disorder (MDD). Music is often used for emotion regulation, and pleasurable music listening ... -
Theory-guided Therapeutic Function of Music to facilitate emotion regulation development in preschool-aged children
(Frontiers Media, 2015-10-14)Emotion regulation (ER) is an umbrella term to describe interactive, goal-dependent explicit, and implicit processes that are intended to help an individual manage and shift an emotional experience. The primary window for ... -
Construct optimal experience for the hospitalized newborn through neuro-based music therapy
(Frontiers Media, 2015-09-03)Music-based intervention for hospitalized newborn infants has traditionally been based in a biomedical model, with physiological stability as the prime objective. More recent applications are grounded in other theories, ... -
Scoring Loss in Some Recent Popular Film and Television
(Oxford University Press, 2014-09-24)A certain tonally- and temporally oriented progression of two triads, dwelt upon usually through undulation, accompanies scenes depicting the contemplation of a considerable sorrowful loss in many popular films and throughout ... -
Evaluation of the Impact of Music Program Participation on Students’ Musical and Academic Success, and School Engagement in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools: A Comprehensive Test of Pathways and Contextual Factors
(2016)The purpose of this project was to examine the effect of participating in music on student school engagement and academic achievement in a Metropolitan Nashville Public School district. Student records for the class of ... -
Subverting the Verse—Chorus Paradigm: Terminally Climactic Forms in Recent Rock Music
(Society for Music Theory, 2013-03)This article defines and demonstrates a formal type I call “terminally climactic forms.” These forms, which appear frequently in rock songs after 1990, are characterized by their balance between the expected memorable ... -
Communal Singing as Political Act: A Chorus of Women Resistants in La Petite Roquette, 1943–1944
(Michigan Publishing, 2013-06)During World War II, any women arrested in Paris for political reasons were incarcerated in La Petite Roquette prison. While there, some of the women formed an ad hoc chorus that sang a repertoire comprised of French and ... -
Kid Algebra: Radiohead's Euclidean and Maximally Even Rhythms
(New Music, Inc., 2014)The British rock group Radiohead has carved out a unique place in the post-millennial rock milieu by tempering their highly experimental idiolect with structures more commonly heard in Top Forty rock styles.1 In what I ... -
In the Beginning of Penderecki's Paradise Lost
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-08-12)Instead of using Milton's famous opening lines, librettist Christopher Fry begins the text for Krzysztof Penderecki's opera Paradise Lost with the invocation that opens Book III, which alludes to acts of creation both ...
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