Classical Music - Science topic

Seeking Volunteers for a Doctoral Research Study on Classical Music Listening Experiences

Study Purpose and Benefits: You are being asked to participate in a voluntary research study. The purpose of this study is to better understand an audience’s experience with classical music concerts. Participating in this study will involve viewing, listening to, and rating enjoyment of short classical music performances. There are no anticipated risks, beyond those encountered in daily life, associated with participating in this study; there are also no direct benefits to you. Please feel free to forward this study announcement to those you think might be interested.

✔ Must be 18 years or older

✔ Must have functional audio capabilities (headphones or speakers)

✔ No prior musical experience required.

Compensation: Participants will have the option of entering a random drawing for one of four $25 Amazon gift cards.

Location: This study will be conducted online via Qualtrics, so you can participate from anywhere on your own device. If you are interested in participating, you can visit: https://illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1F7Xl6t9LNrOlka

I am working on making a website which will connect and represent the research projects and events of scientists in collaboration with musicinas. This is my mission statement:

I have been thinking about the problem of writing and analysing harmony for music using music notation software. The usual process involves writing the notes and playing it back for listening or relying on music theory knowledge to analyse the harmony. This can make the process of harmonisation quite complicated.

I thought about a possible solution to this: colour-coding the notes/chords across the staff so that the arranger/composer can see, at a glance, the harmonic landscape of the music and the effect of their changes to the music instantaneously.

Is this a viable solution to this problem?

KEYWORDS: MUSIC THEORY, MUSIC NOTATION, HARMONY, MUSIC VISUALISATION

"Good music is good music, no matter the genre," says B. B. King, the famous Mississippi-born blues musician (1925-2015); A magnificent quote that beautifully puts into words the sentiment that transcends the boundaries of musical categorization; Regardless of the style or genre. As for Blues, B. B. King specifies "Blues is about embracing your pain and turning it into something beautiful." This poignant quote encapsulates the essence of blues music, shedding light on its transformative power. While pain often feels unbearable, the blues offers solace in embracing these struggles and allowing them to shape something beautiful. By channeling their anguish into music, blues musicians pour their emotions into melodies and heartfelt lyrics. In doing so, they not only release their own pain but also resonate with audiences who find solace in relating to the experiences shared. B.B. King's words remind us of the profound ability of blues music to provide catharsis, healing, and ultimately, the creation of something extraordinary from the depths of pain.

From: https://www.bookey.app/quote-author/bb-king

What is the rationale behind using the term 'Latin American music' as a comprehensive category to comprehend and classify a wide range of musical styles in Latin America? To what extent does this categorization simplify the diversity and complexity of musical traditions in the region, and what challenges might it pose from an academic and cultural perspective?

How do you think? What is origin of our particular sensitivity to harmonious music?

The longer I live, in growing degree I am becoming positive (and still more optimistic) and believe in more natural origin of human attitudes toward beauty and goodness. Once I'd even suggested that also understandingand recognizing of music may be imprinted in ourgenes.

The understanding of music is not irrelevant to ethics. As well as to the culture as a whole, also. Symphonies' general pattern implemented ingenes? The genetic memory of this pattern we can hear in the symphony performed by crickets

(Have you ever heard the amazing cricketschirping slowed down?)

Isn't it comparable with humans best symphonies?Maybe we have to change our understanding ofmusic, beauty and goodness, as attributed only toculture of human beings?When we were much much smaller mammals, sosmall that our pace of life was equal with thecricket life, we could hear these symphonieswhole our lifes generation after generation, as if we were spending most of our lifes in philharmony. This was alike music of the heavenly spheres all the time around us. It could not end in other way. So,we may have imprinted  archetypes of symphony in our genetic memory, quite likely. We can enjoy these music again, when after dozens millions years we've managed to return to this hidden for our ears for dozens hundred thousand years music, as our best composers rediscovered it again for us during recent few centuries.

In a similar way not only notion of music, but also more general beauty or goodness, can be incorporated in the structure of our genes, as the creatures which possessed empathy and prefered more regular (than chaotic) patterns, simply were better prepared for survival. In such a way nature could create higher beings able to consider things beautiful and valuable, differentiating better from worse. However, isn't it so that the full expression of these natural features occurred when humans during evolution of their culture invented the names for good and evil, as well as for beauty and art?

Isn't it so that prehuman beings (and preculture beings we were at the beginning) could dimmly sense the difference? But only when the notions were invented and their designates were developed, humans created understanding of beauty and goodness. And is not it so than only while they fully developed these ideas, they entered reality as its part? I.e., did not humans created all the beauty and goodness of the world? As its beauty was hardly recognized as such before by any former beings?

Or did they recognized it but just could not express that recognision in other way than just by prefering beauty or good in images or behaviour of their partners and surrouding? In other words: May beauty or goodness be possible without beings understanding them as such?

Of course you may remain sceptical as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFFtqEyfu_o

Notice, however, wrong assumption that difference of receiving sound depends on age (time of life) differences of species (and not linear dimensions of their hearing apparatus).

This question is connected with similar discussions already present on RG, and among the others the omne archivized in the attached file : (27) Do small babies understand the ethical and aesthetical categories_.pdf

as well as no longer available its predecessor

Preparing a class on Diaghilev for my students in history's classical music, I'm wondering about the impact and the meaning of the russian ballets in Paris since 1913.

I'm doing a research about classical music in the cartoons of Disney ("Fantasy", "Fantasy 2000") and Soviet cartoons ("Nutcracker" 1973, "Firebird" 1984, "Night on Bald Mountain" 1998). Where can I find any information about it?

I'm doing a research about classical music in Disney cartoons. So, I need as much information as possible. Where can I find it?

I've looked everywhere. I suspect that since this work was done before we started using the internet for this sort of thing (storing music scores online), no one ever got around to it, the principals having gone on to something else.

There were a number of performance decisions¹ that I would dearly love to know Adrian Shepherd's thinking.

Karl

1. The performance in question: Thomas Augustine Arne Symphonie 1 - 4, LP later a CD on Chandos.

The "will test in music" is available as volitional test for German speaking music students. This test should be provided in different language versions. In a first step, I would like to make an introductory paper available that has been published as German-language article in the Journal "Üben & Musizieren" in 2013. The next steps are to develop different language versions of the test. I'm seeking for international colleagues who want to help me with these steps.

I have been examining the relationship between the poet-playwright Garcia Lorca and composer Falla, using motivic analysis recommended by Juan David Garcia Bacca. I would like to know of similar studies of other writers and composers.

Does anyone know whether Maurice Ravel´s music has had an impact on European music after his death in 1937? How much impact, where, and on whom?

I would like  to know if serious concerts can exist without the benefit of grants.  Many  happenings are organised with subsidies of the city, consequently the tickets are  for free or rather cheap.

 Can financial support not restrict the freedom of expression.

Probably because of Baroque opera's heavy reliance on classical mythology there are several examples of allegorical characters personifying ideas -- from the muses to emotions (like love, discord, folly, etc.). Here, though, I'm looking for people who symbolize cities, countries, regions, continents, etc.

Does humor belong in music? In the West, the three B´s, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, dominate classical music and are mostly serious. What is your view? Can you provide examples of humorous music from your country if you have any? Youtubes are welcome. Also, since the West does not own a monopoly on humor in music, contributions from non-Westerners are more than welcome.