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20 maj 2021 · This article presents three distinct music learning and teaching contexts—Carnatic music, instrumental music in Australian schools, and online music learning.
14 sie 2018 · Seminal research in the field of ethnomusicology has explored how social and cultural customs influence music practices in macro and micro ways. Music, for example, can be a core feature of social celebrations such as weddings to a means of cultural expression and maintenance through ceremony.
23 kwi 2009 · The chapter adduces a theory of meaning in music, in which the experience of music is accounted for in specific ways by reference to principles that are said to underlie both animal...
1 wrz 2012 · This commentary explores interpretations of concepts that lie at the focus of Richard Widdess's paper—"music", and "culture"—with the aim of specifying frameworks within which issues of...
12 lut 2019 · I draw on recent advances in the scientific understanding of cultural evolution to clarify persistent misconceptions about the roles of genes and progress in musical evolution, and review ...
Summary. If we define music as a non-verbal means of communication, the implication is that something is being communicated. The question, of course, is what? Is it tones? Or meanings? Is it a story? Or an abstraction?
This chapter first sets out the purpose of the book, which is to explain the musical, social, and cultural processes that underlie the eventual realization of the acoustic performance event (by the composer, performer, arranger, and all others involved), the means by which they lead to the listener's response, and thence to short and long-term ...
