Musical Themes Research Articles

Research On the Impact of Pop Music In 2000s Films: Shaping Youth Culture Through Soundtracks

This research delves into the profound impact of pop music on youth-oriented films of the 2000s, examining aspects such as cultural representation, emotional connection, and financial gains. The introduction underscores the critical importance of this topic in understanding how media shapes youth culture and influences societal perceptions. By focusing on iconic films like "High School Musical" and "Mean Girls," the study illustrates how pop music is used to enrich narratives and captivate audiences, making it an integral part of the storytelling process. The analysis reveals several key issues, including cultural homogenization, the reinforcement of stereotypes, and the prioritization of commercialization over artistic integrity. These challenges highlight the need for a more thoughtful integration of music in films to avoid superficial portrayals and promote authenticity. To address these issues, the research recommends expanding the range of musical themes to reflect diverse cultures and experiences, breaking away from stereotypes to foster more nuanced character portrayals, and balancing commercial objectives with creative expression in future film productions. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of this research in guiding media practices toward greater cultural diversity in youth-oriented entertainment. By adopting these recommendations, filmmakers can create richer, more diverse content that resonates emotionally with audiences while also contributing positively to the cultural landscape.

Self-quotation in Personal Creation. The Journey from Musical Self-Portrait to #Selfie

Music composition is an art that allows the creator to encapsulate her/his personality and conceptions in an abstract manner, as well as to mirror his whole being into the music, like in a self-portrait. A single musical theme may be both the key to the evolution of the compositional techniques and a witness to the inner self transformations that occur during one’s life. This study follows a theme and some of its iterations in other personal works over the last 25 years in order to capture the relation between life, creation and compositional traits, using the concepts of time and memory to explain the evolution of my own musical language.

"Listen to the World". Musical Themes in Children's Literature as a Space for Knowledge Integration

The authors of this article analyse contemporary children’s books containing a musical theme. Selected books were examined to determine their educational potential in promoting children’s ability to integrate associative knowledge of music. The following research questions were formulated: can the content and form of the studied works initiate the integration of children’s knowledge? What types of literary editing approaches promote knowledge integration? The study demonstrated that the analysed books can inspire educators to promote identity-building and the development of self-awareness, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and socio-cultural identity in children. They can provide students with the necessary tools for discovering their identity and true potential, becoming independent thinkers, formulating and expressing personal beliefs, and – above all – integrating their knowledge.

Музыка в живописи Натальи Нестеровой

The article discusses the friendship and creative connections between the famous representatives of Russian culture — painter Natalya Nesterova and composer David Krivitsky. The relevance of the topic is connected with Nesterova’s 80th birthday anniversary the world is celebrating. This is a reason to draw attention to the fact that at the moment there is an extremely limited number of scientific works devoted to her heritage. This article for the first time publishes some unknown facts from her artist’s biography and presents her pictures from the composer’s personal archive. The research perspective is to reveal the significance of musical art and performance for N.I. Nesterova and to show the originality of her approach to depicting musicians and the intended symbolic meaning in her paintings with musical subjects. As an exceptional case, the article describes her activities as an illustrator for the music editions of the composer D.I. Krivitsky. It can be concluded that communication between the two bright creative personalities had a mutual influence and served as an impetus for the emergence of interesting works of art.

A Study of the Regional Characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's Choral Music Works

Background and Aim: This article takes the regional characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works as the main research subject, aiming to sort out the regional music characteristics and regional performance characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works, to better guide the creation of contemporary Chinese choral music works. Materials and Methods: The research method of this thesis is mainly the literature analysis method and qualitative analysis method. The literature analysis method is mainly used to collect and sort out the information about Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works, which mainly comes from China Knowledge Network, Yunnan Provincial Library, Yunnan Provincial Museum of Literature and Art, the Internet, publishers, and purchased books. The qualitative analysis method is mainly used to screen the regional dialect characteristics, regional music style characteristics, regional music theme characteristics, and regional music cultural characteristics used in the relevant literature to classify the categories. Results: The main purpose of the study is to refine and summarise the regional characteristics of Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works, which include four aspects, namely, regional dialect characteristics, regional music style characteristics, regional music theme characteristics, and regional music cultural characteristics. Conclusion: Liu Xiaoqeng composes his works with the regional dialect liner notes, folk songs, or ditties of Yunnan Province as his main materials. These dialect liner notes, folk songs, or ditties have very different regional language characteristics and distinctive modal music styles. It is these characteristics that make Liu Xiaogeng's choral music works have distinctive regional characteristics.

How do adolescents engage with music in spare time? Leisure patterns and their relation with socio-demographic characteristics, well-being, and risk behaviors

This research focuses on four types of adolescents’ leisure pursuits related to music: listening to music; following music topics in the media; and extracurricular activities and hobbies related to music. Our main goal was not only to identify behavioral patterns representing adolescents’ engagement with music in leisure time but also to establish their relationship with relevant socio-demographic variables and indicators of well-being and risk behaviors. The sample comprised 1,358 secondary school students (aged 15 and 17). Five behavioral patterns were identified by principal component analysis. Three represent preferences for listening to music and are labeled rebellious, sophisticated, and energetic music preferences, whereas the fourth, following music, represents adolescents’ interest in music-related topics via media and preferences for pop and, to a lesser extent, folk music. The fifth factor, music-making, describes an active commitment to music as an extracurricular activity or hobby. The regression analysis was used to relate extracted leisure patterns not only with adolescents’ gender, age, and attendance at specific schools but also with the parameters of well-being and risk behaviors. The results are discussed in light of previous research in music psychology, leisure studies, and positive psychology. Major implications are related to music as a protective factor in a sensitive period of adolescence and adults’ responsibility not only to cherish but also to cultivate youth’s interest in it.

Stylistic Correlations Between Serbian and European Music in the 20th Century

The Serbian musical culture was put late into connection with the European one. The fact that the first piano was introduced in Serbia in 1824 indicates that cultivating Serbian music was not possible under the Turkish domination. The spread of Serbian music in Europe made it possible to publish compositions by foreign authors and Serbian composers, which drew attention to the themes of Serbian music. The compositions were printed and published in Leipzig, Vienna, Prague, Paris, Budapest, London. The tours abroad performed by Serbian choirs and soloists popularized Serbian songs all over Europe. In the first half of the 20th century, almost 80 European composers wrote works with Serbian influences. Most of the foreign composers, especially those who lived and created among Serbians, embraced the mentality and cultural and musical needs of a people whose melodic essence they tapped into, using Serbian musical themes in their compositions. Keywords: Serbian, composition, modernity, relations, influences.

Time-varying similarity of neural responses to musical tension is shaped by physical features and musical themes

The similarity of understanding is important for music experience and communication, but little is understood about the sources of this common knowledge. Although neural responses to the same piece of music are known to be similar across listeners, it remains unclear whether this neural response similarity is linked to musical understanding and the role of dynamic musical attributes in shaping it. Our study addresses this gap by investigating the relationship between neural response similarity, musical tension, and dynamic musical attributes. Using electroencephalography-based inter-subject correlation (EEG-ISC), we examined how the neural response similarity among listeners varies throughout the evaluation of musical tension in the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8. Participants continuously rated the degree of alignment between musical events and their expectations, while neural activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). The results showed that neural response similarity fluctuated in tandem with musical tension, with increased similarity observed during moments of heightened tension. This time-varying neural response similarity was influenced by two dynamic attributes contributing to musical tension: physical features and musical themes. Specifically, its fluctuation was driven by physical features, and the patterns of its variation were modulated by musical themes, with similar time-varying patterns observed across similar thematic materials. These findings offer valuable insight into the role of dynamic musical attributes in shaping neural response similarity, and reveal an important source and mechanism of shared musical understandings.

Investigating the Continuation of Ethnic Music in Junior High School Music Education

Investigating the Inheritance of Ethnic Music in Junior High School Music Education aims to guide students to understand traditional Chinese ethnic music, cultivate their emotional cognition, and enhance cultural confidence. Through inheritance education, it seeks to improve musical literacy and promote teaching innovation. Employing a literature review method to analyze connections, explore current situations, and propose practical pathways. Issues include the undervaluation of music subjects, monotonous teaching content, and a lack of in-depth exploration. Suggestions involve enriching teaching methods, uncovering the beauty of music, enhancing cultural literacy, and facilitating inheritance. This research holds practical significance and educational value, as introducing teaching methods can cultivate aesthetic tastes, while innovative teaching can enhance quality and promote development.

From online to offline: Getting ready for in-person fieldwork through social media ethnography

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant emphasis on finding solutions to continue academic research in light of closed borders. The inability to travel has prompted academic researchers to reconsider their approaches to fieldwork, with a particular focus on utilizing modern technology effectively to conduct accurate ethnographic research even while working remotely. This has entailed navigating the vast expanse of the internet carefully and acquiring additional tools in the field of ethnography. The primary concerns surrounding conducting remote fieldwork and ensuring the proper selection of data can be summarized by exploring strategies to overcome the challenges imposed by restrictions, as well as leveraging modern technology to study distant cultures without compromising comprehension. Taking into consideration my research on the Japanese experimental noise music scene and the necessity to collect information about the response and activities of these artists at the brink of the pandemic, I challenged my need to collect data by practising through the internet and modern technologies new ways to undertake ethnographic research through distance. In this sense, social networks demonstrated how modern ethnographic methods can be effectively applied to conduct functional social media ethnography, mitigating the challenges brought about by physical distance constraints. Specifically for my research, Reddit’s feature of organizing communities into subtopics named “subreddits” provides me with the possibility to keep in touch with reliable users and information by selecting specific subreddits related to Japan and music topics (e.g. “r/japaneseunderground”, “r/noisemusic”). Along with the existing literature and the constant online research for news related to my project, social media ethnography played a functional role not only in collecting relevant data but also in providing me with more clarity about how to further move my fieldwork once I can travel to Japan. By emphasizing the potential of social media as a valuable avenue to enhance research strategies in times of crisis, this paper aims to consider how online fieldwork created to overcome the impossibility of fieldwork travel can result in a profitable social media ethnography not only to collect data by distance but also to gain appropriate preparation for following in-person fieldwork by relying on our primary findings. By retracing step by step my research project on Japanese noise music, I will explain how undertaking online research provided me with further ideas to achieve more findings and add clarities to my research intent once I had to switch to offline fieldwork.

음악 감상 능력 계발을 위한 가상 현실 교육 콘텐츠 개발

The purpose of this study is to develop virtual reality education content for the cultivation of music appreciation ability. Under this goal, the investigator designed the study in a structure of basics, designs, and results. Chapter 2 for the basics of the study examined the background of developing virtual reality education content, the concept and stages of raising music appreciation ability, and the principle of universal design for learning. Chapter 3 for the research design describes the nature of developing virtual reality education content to raise music appreciation ability, the eight courses of virtual reality education content to raise music appreciation ability, and the application of the universal design for learning principle to the development of virtual reality education content. Based on them, Chapter 4 for findings discussed the development of virtual reality education content to raise music appreciation ability in four paragraphs covering the teaching and learning principles to develop virtual reality education content for raising music appreciation ability, the content system of each teaching and learning course, the direction to develop a teaching and learning course, and assessment. Based on these findings, the study made the following proposals for a follow-up study: first, music subject educators should understand virtual reality education content in an approach of educational technology and conduct research on ways to apply it to teaching and learning; and secondly, music subject educators should be fully aware of the characteristics of music subject education in an approach of subject pedagogy and sophisticate the development process of music appreciation ability as the basis of singing, instrumental music, creation, and appreciation activities in music subject education.

В. М. Металлов — священник, ученый, педагог

This article presents the experience of working in the genre of scientific biography of an outstanding representative of Russian culture at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries, priest Vasily Mikhailovich Metallov, who combined church service with scientific and pedagogical musical activity (to a lesser extent, composing).V.M. Metallov has come a long way from a provincial rural priest to the rector of the Kazan Church on Red Square in Moscow. Developing the talent of a research scientist, he achieved great results in the field of studying ancient Russian church music history, set forth in a number of fundamental works. In his extensive pedagogical activity, he sought to transfer his scientific knowledge to students of spiritual and secular educational institutions in Saratov and Moscow: the Saratov Theological Seminary, the Synodal School of Church Singing, the Moscow Conservatory of the Russian Musical Society, the Archaeological Institute.The central place in the secular ministry of V.M. Metallov was occupied by the Moscow Conservatory. In it, he continued the tradition of teaching the spiritual and musical training course «The History of Church Singing», the founder of which was Archpriest Dimitri Vasilyevich Razumovsky, and the successor Stepan Vasilyevich Smolensky. By his works and trying to preserve the presence of the spiritual and musical subject in the conditions of the reformation after 1917 of pre-revolutionary musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, V.M. In this way, he preserved the foundation, which in the future allowed the interest of musical researchers to revive in the national «monument» — the ancient Russian church music art.The article observes the chronological outline of the biography of V.M. Metallov, supplemented by a number of little-known details and documentary evidence discovered during the study of archival materials and documents.

A Study on the Design of Music Curriculum-Based Ecological Environment Convergence Education Program for Elementary School Learners

This study is to devise a convergence education program with the ecological environment based on the music of elementary school learners. Various agendas surrounding the environment, such as carbon neutrality, climate crisis, and ecological environment conservation, are also being discussed with enthusiasm in the education world. From this point of view, this study is expected to be an education that can be practiced in their lives in the future by properly establishing elementary school learners' values for nature and the environment as well as music subject content in the music education field. To this end, this study developed a new music education program that can further implement environmental education based on two previous studies on music-based convergence education through literature research methods. Through this, conclusions corresponding to four implications were drawn, and it can be said that the review that environmental education can be practiced in a fusion manner within music education has been conducted to some extent.

‘학교 교육을 위한 국가 교육과정 프레임워크 2023’ 문서에 따른 인도의 예술교육과정 프레임워크 분석 연구

The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze the arts curriculum framework, including music subjects, in India's newly announced 'National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023', in order to examine various implications for Korea's music curriculum. For this purpose, this paper utilizes a literature research method to examine India’s curriculum documents, focusing on items such as 'document structure', 'competency', 'rationale and aims', 'content system and achievement standards' and ‘teaching & learning and assessment’ according to the components of Korea's 2022 revised music curriculum. As a result of the analysis, the characteristics of each item and the differences with Korea's 2022 revised music curriculum were presented, and based on this, implications related to the design method and content of Korea's music curriculum were derived.

The Growth of Contemporary Music Subject and the Reform of Music Teaching in Universities

In order to promote the growth of contemporary music and the reform of music, this article designs an improved collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm to solve the problem of sparse matrix in traditional recommendation algorithms. The data matrix is dimensionally reduced to find the nearest neighbor, so as to realize personalized recommendation of music teaching resources in colleges and universities. The test results show that the accuracy of the proposed teaching resource recommendation algorithm is improved by 22.56% compared with the traditional CF algorithm. The improved CF algorithm can provide more accurate prediction, and the recommendation effect of the improved algorithm is better than the original algorithm, which can effectively avoid the sparse matrix problem faced by the CF algorithm, and provide technical support for the development of contemporary music discipline and the reform of music discipline.

Art education as a means of forming cultural identity and civic consciousness

The purpose of the article is to study art education as a means of forming cultural identity and civic consciousness. To achieve this goal, theoretical methods of cognition were used, in particular, the most important methods of analysis, synthesis, and content analysis. The results show that modern technologies are widely used in the field of higher art education. This includes not only technical aspects, but also theoretical and pedagogical approaches to teaching. In modern methods of higher education, the emphasis is on the development of students' personalities, broadening their outlook, skills and abilities. Traditional models of learning that existed before the introduction of distance learning are undergoing significant changes, leading to experimental approaches to teaching in art universities. Particular emphasis is placed on the democratisation of educational processes, digitalisation of art education and the use of computer technology. The desire to ensure unity in diversity, which is a necessary component of modern European integration aimed at overcoming the negative effects of globalisation, is also important. One of the key components of the development of modern higher art education is the use of digital technologies. This allows students to create a significant amount of creative work while studying and include it in their professional portfolio. This approach is particularly relevant in the European labour market. Ukraine's experience in applying modern teaching methods in the field of music is in line with European development trends. At the same time, due to Russian military aggression and obsessive propaganda, there is a need to update research on Ukraine-centric music topics. It is important to emphasise the development of Ukrainian art, the study of the life and legacy of prominent teachers, performers and artists, and the integration of the acquired knowledge into the educational process. The conclusions emphasise that the combination of Ukrainian specificity and modern digitalisation trends creates objective conditions for the development of musicology in Ukraine and its presentation at the international level.

A study on the fusion of musical theme landscape and soundscape in Hefei Feicui Lake scenic spot, China

The health of the urban public can be promoted by shaping ecological landscapes and reducing noise. Visual landscapes and soundscape, considered as important components of sustainable urban development, are becoming increasingly concerned. In this study, Hefei Feicui Lake scenic spot in China was regarded as an example. By using questionnaire survey, soundwalks and acoustic monitoring methods, which aimed to understand people’s sense of identification with musical theme landscape and soundscape in the area, and further explored the effects of the interaction between musical theme landscape and soundscape on the perceived soundscape restoration of visitors. The results showed that musical theme landscape and soundscape could affect people’s emotions on the individual level and their behaviours, such as staying (viewing the scenery or rest) on the social level. On this basis, a strategy for creating urban public space inspired by the art of music was proposed as the topic of this study.

Navigating between traditional and innovative music teaching: Analyzing practicum conversations through practice architecture theory

There is limited research on the practicum component of music teacher education in Scandinavia. I address this gap by investigating practicum conversations preservice music teachers (PMTs) engage in during their practice-based placements in Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. Through an analytical lens based on practice architecture theory, I illuminate how differing discourses, expectations, and relationship patterns among PMTs and teacher educators (functioning as mentors) influence the selection of certain music activities. The main findings indicate how differing discourses and expectations led to continuous negotiations about which repertoire and content to choose. At the same time, musical interaction and engagement in spaces of “shared” knowledge between PMTs and mentors served as alternative ways to select activities in practicum conversations. Based on the findings, I emphasize the importance of providing more spaces for PMTs’ voices and resources to renew and change the content and repertoire of the music subject in schools.

TRANSFORMASI KESENIAN POJHIÂN KE DALAM PENCIPTAAN KOMPOSISI MUSIK TRADISI INOVASI BERBASIS LOKAL WISDOM

The transformation of Pojian art into the creation of innovative music compositions can be an alternative to regenerate the existance of Pojhian art actors. This effort is to maintain the existence of Pojhian art in the midst of the onslaught of increasingly sophisticated technology, so that it can stimulate the attractiveness of the millennial generation to be proud and take part in the Pojian art which is full of noble values. The purpose of this research is to find out the extent to which the potential of the performance form and song material in Pojian can be exposed to be fresher through the novelty of original musical works. The method used in this research consists of 2 stages, namely; conceptual stage and operational stage. The conceptual stage con- sists of determining objectives, determining musical themes, gathering information, analyzing information, determining instruments, melodies and determining artistic design. The operational stage includes music exploration, notation modification, arrangement variation, music composition, song verse writing, notation writing, artistic design selection and artistic research. There are 3 types of data in this research that are used as measuring instruments, namely; validity, originality of artwork, and novelty. The test subjects in this study were two validators, namely validators of traditional art preservationists to measure the suitability of the appli- cation of the Pojhiân art presentation structure contained in the Gâdhisa ritual and validators of music experts (composers) to measure the originality of the work, and the novelty of the music composition presented.

Unlyric: The Lute-Object in Early Modern English Poetry

ABSTRACT Considering that early modern poetic theory retains the classical genealogies and iconographies of lyric poetry as song to the accompaniment of a lyre, how can one account for lyrics which portray the poet’s stringed instrument, frequently the lute, as antithetical to his or her poetic aspirations, as a recalcitrant tool that resists the poet’s desires and thus engenders a lyric crisis? This article uses object-oriented ontology (OOO) to think through the lyric poet’s relationship with the lute which, fractured between real object and its sensual qualities, withdraws its essential being from access yet involves the poet in a network of sensual and essentially aesthetic bonds with the instrument. By reading several early modern riddles, sonnets, and other lyrics about deviant lutes as encounters between human and nonhuman objects, the article traces the poetics of unlyric — a form of poetry that disentangles poiesis from musical subjectivity and harmony, articulating instead a vision of lyric as fraught negotiations between entities whose forces lie beyond the powers of human art.