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Kinds of Music Terms modified by Music Selected AbstractsModified mixture of experts employing eigenvector methods and Lyapunov exponents for analysis of electroencephalogram signalsEXPERT SYSTEMS, Issue 4 2009Elif Derya ÜbeyliArticle first published online: 2 SEP 200 Abstract: The use of diverse features in detecting variability of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is presented. The classification accuracies of the modified mixture of experts (MME), which was trained on diverse features, were obtained. Eigenvector methods (Pisarenko, multiple signal classification , MUSIC, and minimum-norm) were selected to generate the power spectral density estimates. The features from the power spectral density estimates and Lyapunov exponents of the EEG signals were computed and statistical features were calculated to depict their distribution. The statistical features, which were used for obtaining the diverse features of the EEG signals, were then input into the implemented neural network models for training and testing purposes. The present study demonstrated that the MME trained on the diverse features achieved high accuracy rates (total classification accuracy of the MME is 98.33%). [source] HOW TO BEST ENSURE REMUNERATION FOR CREATORS IN THE MARKET FOR MUSIC?JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, Issue 4 2006COPYRIGHT AND ITS ALTERNATIVES Abstract The focus of this essay is to examine the market for copyrighted works with a particular emphasis on the sound recording market. This market is currently in a state of flux, some would say disarray, due to the ability of the Internet to lower transmission costs for both authorized and unauthorized copies, with the latter being, at this time, far more prevalent. In this essay we discuss the intent of copyright, the role of copying and file-sharing, and some alternative production/consumption schemes meant to strengthen or to replace copyright. [source] Analysis of magnetic source localization of P300 using the multiple signal classification algorithmPSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES, Issue 6 2006TETSUO UOHASHI md Abstract, The authors studied the localization of P300 magnetic sources using the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm. Six healthy subjects (aged 24,34 years old) were investigated with 148-channel whole-head type magnetencephalography using an auditory oddball paradigm in passive mode. The authors also compared six stimulus combinations in order to find the optimal stimulus parameters for P300 magnetic field (P300m) in passive mode. Bilateral MUSIC peaks were located on the mesial temporal, superior temporal and parietal lobes. Interestingly, all MUSIC peaks in these regions emerged earlier in the right hemisphere than in the left hemisphere, suggesting that the right hemisphere has predominance over the left in the processing activity associated with P300m. There were no significant differences among the six stimulus combinations in evoking those P300m sources. The results of the present study suggest that the MUSIC algorithm could be a useful tool for analysis of the time-course of P300m. [source] THE CONDITION OF MUSIC: WAGNERISM AND PRINTMAKING IN FRANCE AND BRITAINART HISTORY, Issue 3 2009RACHEL SLOAN Scholarship on the impact of Richard Wagner's music and aesthetic theories has traditionally concentrated on fin-de-siècle France. Aubrey Beardsley's Wagnerian prints have recently been the subject of several significant studies, but they have been examined in a British context with little reference to earlier or concurrent developments in France. This article serves as a case study of Anglo-French artistic exchange at the fin-de-siècle, examining some points of interaction between Beardsley and two key French Wagnerian artists, Henri Fantin-Latour and Odilon Redon, in order to throw more light on the complex mixture of political, social and aesthetic discourses that informed all three artists' interest in the intersection of music and the visual arts, as well as their Wagnerian pictorial languages. [source] Gender and the Politics of Voice: Colonial Modernity and Classical Music in South IndiaCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2003Amanda Weidman First page of article [source] Emotion, Performance, and Temporality in Arab Music: Reflections on TarabCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2003Jonathan H. Shannon First page of article [source] Marlowe's Doric Music: Lust and Aggression in Hero and LeanderENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 1 2000JOHN LEONARD First page of article [source] Craving for Music after Treatment for Partial EpilepsyEPILEPSIA, Issue 5 2006Jonathan D. Rohrer No abstract is available for this article. [source] Epilepsy Guidelines in the Real World: The Sound of Music?EPILEPSIA, Issue 1 2004Linda J. Stephen No abstract is available for this article. [source] Epitomising the Modern Spanish Nation through Popular Music: Coplas from La Caramba to Concha Piquer, 1750,1990GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 3 2007Mercedes Carbayo Abengózar Music is an important language of the emotions and can often arouse strong passions in its performance and representation, both from the individual's perspective of personal identity and for the individual's sense of identity and of belonging to a given community. Likewise, music can serve to whip up and reinforce nationalism and national chauvinism against the ,other' as well as serving as a badge of identity. In this article I explore a musical form, a song that has been defined as ,Spanish' and as the ,national' song: la copla. Copla is rooted in the past and first appeared as both a poetic and a theatrical form, but always accompanied by music. It was, however, during the eighteenth century, when nationalism made its appearance as a ,concern' in the Spanish political-cultural arena, when coplas would be used as a mark of Spanish identity. Copla is a women's song. Although it has been interpreted by men, some of them internationally renowned like Miguel de Molina, the most famous performers have been and still are women. That is why perhaps a recurrent theme of coplas is unrequited love, whereby love and passion play an important role, either with regard to the individual or the community from which the individual hails. But there are also other themes such as the longing stimulated by alien rule, which is reflected by cultural opposition and resistance to discourses of power, not only in terms of open opposition, but in a more subtle form of resistance, particularly in gender terms. I claim that it is precisely this resistance to fixed discourses of gender that have made coplas excellent negotiators with the different musical, social and political contexts and in this way have made them an icon of the invented tradition that is fundamental in the creation of a nation. [source] Tradisi and Turisme: Music, Dance, and Cultural Transformation at the Ubud Palace, Bali, IndonesiaGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2003P. Dunbar This article investigates relationships between music and place through analysis of performances for tourists at a prominent site, Puri Saren Agung (the Ubud Palace) in the Balinese village of Ubud. These performances are representative of ways in which Balinese traditional cultural representation is transformed when it is packaged for tourist consumption. Through a number of readings of the palace, potential meanings for music are shown to be dependent on the past and present identities of this site. This is heightened by a view of changes in the palace's status and uses as a metaphor for ongoing developments in Balinese music and dance, and thus of ways in which tourism has been, and continues to be, a force in Balinese cultural production. [source] Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture: A Comparative History of Nineteenth-Century Leipzig and Birmingham , By Antje PieperHISTORY, Issue 315 2009MICHAEL BIDDISS No abstract is available for this article. [source] Music and Politics in Germany 1933,1955: Approaches and ChallengesHISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2007Toby Thacker Until very recently, music has often been considered as an art form which stands outside and above politics. This article explores the new approaches taken by historians and musicologists in the last twenty years to the analysis of music in political context in Germany between 1933 and 1955, a period in which musicians worked under Nazi and Communist forms of dictatorship, under Allied military government, and under a liberal democracy. It outlines the ways in which this literature has been fragmented by self-imposed chronological, geographical and thematic boundaries, and suggests ways in which these might be challenged. [source] "Singing for Our Lives": Women's Music and Democratic PoliticsHYPATIA, Issue 4 2002NANCY S. LOVE Although democratic theorists often employ musical metaphors to describe their politics, musical practices are seldom analyzed as forms of political communication. In this article, I explore how the music of social movements, what is called "movement music," supplements deliberative democrats' concept of public discourse as rational argument. Invoking energies, motions, and voices beyond established identities and institutions anticipates a different, more musical democracy. I argue that the "women's music" of Holly Near, founder of Redwood Records and Redwood Cultural Work, exemplifies this transformative power of musical sound. [source] The Monthly Mask of Vocal Music, 1702-1711 , By Olive Baldwin and Thelma WilsonJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 3 2010David Newsholme No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Crucifixion in Music: An Analytical Survey of Settings of the Crucifixus between 1680 and 1800 , Edited by Robin A. LeaverJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 2 2009Yo Tomita [source] Eighteenth-Century Russian Music , By Marina RitzarevJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 4 2008Philip Ross Bullock No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Stylus Phantasticus and Free Keyboard Music of the North German Baroque , By Paul Collins The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 , By Joseph KermanJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 1 2008Bettina Varwig [source] James Beattie and the Ethics of MusicJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 1 2007Catherine Jones First page of article [source] Introduction to a Forum on Religion, Popular Music, and GlobalizationJOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 4 2006LYNN SCHOFIELD CLARK Guest Editor First page of article [source] Music-assisted relaxation to improve sleep quality: meta-analysisJOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, Issue 7 2009Gerrit De Niet Abstract Title.,Music-assisted relaxation to improve sleep quality: meta-analysis. Aim., This paper is a report of a meta-analysis conducted to evaluate the efficacy of music-assisted relaxation for sleep quality in adults and elders with sleep complaints with or without a co-morbid medical condition. Background., Clinical studies have shown that music can influence treatment outcome in a positive and beneficial way. Music holds the promise of counteracting psychological presleep arousal and thus improving the preconditions for sleep. Data sources., We conducted a search in the Embase (1997 , July 2008), Medline (1950 , July 2008), Cochrane (2000 , July 2008), Psychinfo (1987 , July 2008) and Cinahl (1982 , July 2008) databases for randomized controlled trials reported in English, German, French and Dutch. The outcome measure of interest was sleep quality. Methods., Data were extracted from the included studies using predefined data fields. The researchers independently assessed the quality of the trials using the Delphi list. Only studies with a score of 5 points or higher were included. A pooled analysis was performed based on a fixed effect model. Results., Five randomized controlled trials with six treatment conditions and a total of 170 participants in intervention groups and 138 controls met our inclusion criteria. Music-assisted relaxation had a moderate effect on the sleep quality of patients with sleep complaints (standardized mean difference, ,0·74; 95% CI: ,0·96, ,0·46). Subgroup analysis revealed no statistically significant contribution of accompanying measures. Conclusion., Music-assisted relaxation can be used without intensive investment in training and materials and is therefore cheap, easily available and can be used by nurses to promote music-assisted relaxation to improve sleep quality. [source] Feeding and dementia: a systematic literature reviewJOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, Issue 1 2006Roger Watson PhD RN FIBiol FRSA Aim., This paper reports a systematic review of the literature on interventions to promote oral nutritional intake of older people with dementia and feeding difficulty between 1993 and 2003. Background., Older people with dementia commonly experience difficulty with feeding, especially in the later stages of the condition. This topic and related nursing care was reviewed in 1993 and the conclusion was that there was little research into interventions that nurses could use to alleviate feeding difficulty. Method., A systematic review of the literature was carried out using the CINAHL, Medline, EMBASE and Cochrane databases and the search terms ,feeding', ,eating' and ,dementia' combined as follows: ,(feeding or eating) and (dementia)'. A second search was carried out combining the search terms ,mealtimes' and ,dementia' as follows: ,mealtimes and dementia'. The literature search was carried out on 1 December 2003 and papers were included in the review if retrieved by 31 December 2003. English language papers only were retrieved. Results., Sixty-seven papers were retrieved, of which 13 addressed interventions aimed at helping older people with dementia to feed. All studies reported positive outcomes but only one randomized controlled trial was reported. Music was the most common intervention but there were no standardized interventions or outcomes across the studies and none reported the use of power analysis to decide on sample size. There were problems in some studies with confounding variables. Conclusions., Further research is needed into interventions aimed at how nurses can help older people with dementia to feed. There are some promising lines of enquiry, with music being one of these, but future studies need to use adequate samples and to use power calculations and account adequately for confounding variables. There is also a need to standardize interventions and outcomes across such studies to facilitate meta-analysis. [source] Methodological Questions about the Ontology of MusicJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 4 2009ROBERT STECKER First page of article [source] Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music,by kivy, peterJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 4 2009THEODORE GRACYK First page of article [source] Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music by kivy, peterJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 3 2008ANTHONY GRITTEN First page of article [source] Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction by benson, stephenJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 1 2008ANTHONY GRITTEN First page of article [source] Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven by bonds, mark evanJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 4 2007JENNIFER JUDKINS No abstract is available for this article. [source] Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation by huron, davidJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 3 2007WILLIAM BENJAMIN No abstract is available for this article. [source] Making Tracks: The Ontology of Rock MusicJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 4 2006ANDREW KANIA First page of article [source] Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 edited by brougher, kerry, olivia mattis, jeremy strick, ari wiseman and judith zilczerJOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM, Issue 4 2006THOMAS ADAJIAN No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||