Musical Themes Research Articles

PENGGUNAAN PEMETAAN KONSEP MATERI PELAJARAN OLEH GURU UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN BELAJAR SENI MUSIK SECARA DARING PADA PEMBELAJARAN SENI BUDAYA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19 DI KELAS X-2SMA NEGERI 1 SITIUNG

This study aims to describe the use of material concept mapping by teachers to help students understand theoretically music subject. The literature review used in this research is related to the notion of school instruction; learning during a pandemic; Learning of cultures and Arts (music) according to K13; and conceptual mapping of subject matter. This research belongs to a quantitative research using a descriptive analysis approach. Based on the research results during three online learning meetings in class X-2, it can be explained that the use of concept mapping of music art subject matter by the teachers based on the concept map made on the blackboard and PowerPoint slides has encouraged an increase in student understanding especially in terms of mastering the materials. The concept mapping made by teachers and assigned to students helps students better understand the subject matter of music in a more structured and organized way. Thus, it is in accordance with the theoretical ideas of the subject matter studied.

4차 산업혁명시대 음악교육의 가치요소에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study is to investigate the value elements of music subject education in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. For this purpose, the investigator first provided theoretical reviews about high technology, environment, content and methodology in addition to the values of education and those of music subject education serving as part of subject education in the public education system in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Then the study discussed the components needed by the values of music subject education to generate its effects in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution or their fundamental conditions as its value elements. After discussing what its value elements were, the study used the results to propose to discuss a convergence platform and innovative originality. In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the music subject education can promote the convergence of human ideas and emotions including 3Rs, 4Cs, and six competencies through the material, tool or mechanism called music and offers a proper way to use it as a platform. The study thus developed the logic that a convergence platform was a value element of music subject education. Discussing innovative originality, the investigator mentioned innovative originality in the music subject education with the example of Big Data among the various high technologies in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. This developed into the logic that innovative originality was fit as a value element of music subject education, which implies the universality and educational suggestion of subjects based on the premise of their unique nature.

A Study on the perception of the music subject competencies by fifth and sixth grade elementary students

A Study on the perception of the music subject competencies by fifth and sixth grade elementary students

Multi-sensory research of singing visualization in pre-school music education

ABSTRACT The research aim was to develop a visual training simulator with real-time audio correction using the Python programing language and reference audio files classified library. Depending on the melody perception and playback level, the learning pace increases from the minimum. The desired result is affected by the repetitions number. The designed simulator having real-time visualization option allows estimating results and errors. The proposed methodology practical value can be effective for preschool educational institutions music teaching and other music schools and universities music subjects. Further research will be devoted to this technique improvement using virtual reality methods.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Application of software fuzzy adaptive speech task recognition in modern music online learning system

With the development of the times and the improvement of the country’s comprehensive strength, my country’s scientific and technological development level has also been greatly improved. This has directly led to changes in education methods and methods, including the subject of music and its teaching mode have become the same as traditional Teaching models are getting different. Previously, the teaching mode of the music subject was relatively single, so we used high-tech technology to change the traditional way of education. Combining network and multimedia technology, people’s ability and level of appreciation of music were improved to a new level, and music teaching Rapid development. At the same time, music teaching also analyzes the various stages of its development, and incorporates other beneficial elements, so that music education develops with the development of the times, and fully reflects the characteristics of the times of education. Language ability is the speaking ability that we usually recognize that we can communicate with people. It is a high-level communication cognitive method for people. The process of people communicating and speaking is a very complicated process, which requires people to enhance their own understanding and cognitive level. In the experiments analyzed in this article, we will focus on how to self-adapt and self-regulate the fuzzy situation of the software. Efforts to build a modern music system that can be automated, this system allows people to learn online music appreciation on the Internet, and combined with a voice-based task recognition system to establish a system that can detect and collect the voices of different individuals. Then build a suitable database to collect voice information, and continuously improve the accuracy of the voice recognition system, and finally bring the relevant voice information into the model to get a conclusion.

Childhood as a musical theme – affectivity and instrumental expressiveness in the works of Schumann, Debussy and Enescu

Abstract Childhood is a theme that music does not avoid, and through works such as Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann, Children’s Corner by Claude Debussy or Impressions d’enfance (Childhood Impressions) by George Enescu, is illustrated by various compositional means, determined by epochs or trends with which the creators identify, but also by their personal experiences and their expressive intentions. The affectivity of childhood is the key to decipher the musical message, pursuing the connection between the universe and the way in which the composers chose to lead the sound discourse through instruments, exploring so diversily the possibilities presented by them. The image, the symbol or the instrumental timbre, understood as processes of transmitting the expression, are the elements that the study seeks to define in correlation with the programmatism and the musical specificity of each previously mentioned work. This analytical incursion belongs to the contemporary performer, who, in order to understand and render this theme, uses not only the knowledge in the field, but also the extra-musical insight, belonging to literature or psychology.

Sex, Death and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks, by David Yearsley

<i>Sex, Death and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks</i>, by David Yearsley

EXERTING INQUIRY BASED LEARNING METHOD IN IMPROVING GIFTED STUDENTS’ MUSIC RECORDER SKILL

Previous studies show most gifted students have tendency towards music. However, it was found that most gifted students were having problem playing recorder using existing teaching methods. This has caused low achievement score in music subject. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the inquiry based learning method to enhance the recorder playing skills among gifted students. The study was conducted at a gifted institution in Malaysia. Data were collected through observation using Music Instrument Rubric and group interview in the fieldwork. Respondents were 27 gifted and talented students who did not attend any formal training in Western music and the only music background they had was gained from the school curriculum. Result reveals the inquiry learning method improves students’ achievement in recorder playing compared to previous conventional method. Observation indicates that students could play the entire song well in terms of pic accuracy, tempo consistency, tonal, musical shape and performance. Interview data shows students felt satisfied with their own style in determining the proper way to master the recorder skills. This study is expected to provide appropriate music teaching methods in the gifted and talented education system.

Akord à rebours. O muzyce i „duchowej inteligencji” w filmie Interstellar Christophera Nolana

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; The essay aims to reveal the role of music in the movie Interstellar by Christopher Nolan and its significance in creating an artistic message that relates to the love myths characteristic of European culture and art. The orientation point is the Tristanic myth and the project of musical dramaturgy by Richard Wagner, the founder of the concept of music being the significant layer in a Gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of the arts, which strongly inspires i.a. cinema. The article ponders possible messages to be decoded from the music in Nolan’s movie: as a “form of a lover’s discourse” (R. Barthes), “significant form” (Suzanne K. Langer), “symbolic form” (E. Cassirer), responsible for shaping the ambience that constitutes an inherent structural part of the movie in the metaphysical cinema genre. The musical solutions applied by Hans Zimmer in the soundtrack to Nolan’s movie do more than merely imply inspiration from Wagner. They also allow for recognition of the polyphonic way of constructing formal and thematic relations between musical themes and the verbal-visual layer of the movie. This refined artistic project aims at a subtly directed confrontation with the nihilistic picture of love that is representative of melancholic-pessimistic images of the condition of human relationships in the modern culture. The analysed main musical theme, called the “à rebours chord” (i.e. anti-Tristan chord), turns out to be an overt musical manifestation of such a counterpunch and becomes a starting point to telling a story that refers to the concept of love which assumes taking action and fighting for the good of your loved ones, as well as the concept of Caritas and unconditional love. The way that the music and sound of the movie are orchestrated is therefore tightly coupled with its semantic and symbolic message, which allows for perceiving the music as a specific “libration point” of the movie structure. Its function might also be interpreted as a semantic attribute of “a spiritual intelligence”, referring to that which is binding and crucial for the axiological and metaphysical message of the movie.&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

“Capricorn Concerto” by Samuel Barber: Content and Genre-Style Dimensions

Relevance of the study. Samuel Barber’s musical legacy is unevenly covered in musicological literature, in particular, “Capricorn Concerto” is on the periphery of scientific attention — the work that is not only bright and interesting, but also indicative of the composer’s creativity as a whole. In addition, researchers, as a rule, do not associate the semantic and stylistic features of a concert with its genre specificity, which ultimately determines the integrity of the artistic structure.The main objective of the study is to identify the relationship between genre, style and content parameters of Capricorn Concerto.The methodology of the research includes the historical and biographical approaches used to study the circumstances of S. Barber’s life and creativity during the period of work on the “Capricorn Concerto”, as well as structural-functional, genre-style and intonational-dramatic methods necessary for a comprehensive analysis of this work.Results and conclusions. “Capricorn Сoncerto” by S. Barber is considered in the unity of content, style and genre characteristics. The existing hypotheses about the links between the program content of the work and the name of the composer’s house in Mount Kisco are presented. The character and dramatic functions of musical themes representing the house and its inhabitants are analyzed, the idea of the personification of the wind instruments’ timbres and the reflection of the generalized program of the work through the game thematic logic and timbre dramaturgy is put forward. The stylistic influences in “Capricorn Сoncerto” are characterized. The connections with baroque music and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 by J. S. Bach, presented at the timbre, textured, compositional, intonation levels, as well as in the methods of melodic development, are traced. The unification of the Baroque style elements with modern means of musical expression, in particular those associated with the music of I. Stravinsky, is emphasized. The place of “Capricorn Сoncerto” in S. Barber’s concert legacy is designated. The correspondence of all his four concerts to the basic requirements of the genre is noted, and at the same time specificity of “Capricorn Сoncerto”, manifested in its instrumental composition (three solo wind instruments and a string orchestra), structural organization (subordination of the compositional structure to the through development of the concert principle of dialogue) and the ratio of parties (multilevel dialogical processes) is emphasized. The interrelation of content, style and genre features of “Capricorn Concerto” is substantiated. It is concluded that the most important intentions of S. Barber’s work are reflected in this work: careful preservation of genre traditions, genetic connection with the styles of previous eras, deeply hidden, but always tangible resonance between personal biography and creativity

Abstract P871: Community and Academic Partner Creation of a Community-Informed, Behavior Theory-Based Music Video to Encourage Stroke Preparedness During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Background: Black Americans comprise 14% of Michigan’s population, but 30% of the COVID-19 cases and 40% of deaths. The accumulating national quantitative data on decreased presentation and increased pre-hospital delay during the pandemic confirmed our Flint, MI community partners’ impression of a decline in stroke presentations. Thus, we set out to understand the community’s perception of seeking acute stroke care during the pandemic which will inform the development and dissemination of public health messaging in a predominantly Black American community. Method: To honor social distancing orders, we conducted semi-structured interviews based on the Theory of Planned Behavior via HIPAA-approved teleconferencing with community members. Due to the clinical and public health implications of the pandemic, we employed a rapid assessment approach to streamline qualitative data analysis. Results were used to inform the creation of a music video. Lyrics were written by the academic team, set to a soundtrack and sung by a community partner. The music video theme was conceptualized by the academic team and performed by both academic and community partners. Results: We reached thematic saturation after completing 15 semi-structured interviews with Flint, MI community members. Mean duration of interviews was 40 minutes. Eighty percent of participants were Black; median age was 50; 74% were women and 47% reported some college or above. There was an unfavorable attitude towards seeking emergent stroke care via ambulance and at the hospital, due to concerns for viral transmission at the hospital, hospital capacity and ability to triage, and quality of care. Community and academic partners co-created a music video with verses addressing the community-identified barriers: “ stroke is an emergency all the time, even with COVID-19 / get to the hospital as soon as symptoms start, it’s so important to do your part, be Stroke Ready” (https://youtu.be/lKefAiUM2W0) The video reached over 1,200 users on our community-academic partner Stroke Ready Facebook page. Conclusion: We found that community members’ attitudes and perceived behavioral control to seek emergent stroke care were impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We addressed these barriers in an academic-community partner created music video. Academic and community partnerships facilitated a timely, innovative response to seeking acute stroke care in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Narrating Masculinity in the Dance Contest from Ravel'sDaphnis et Chloé

ABSTRACTThe scenario of the dance contest from Ravel'sDaphnis et Chloépresents a narrative in which the hero, Daphnis – in typical patriarchal fashion – is rewarded with Chloé as a prize. The period ofDaphnis’s creation saw widespread anxiety over the proper performance of masculinity. Given the ‘duel’ fought between Daphnis and Dorcon, I employ the gendered connotations of duelling narratives as an interpretative lens through which to view the ballet's scene. I propose a methodology developed from the conceptually similar praxes of A. J. Greimas and Heinrich Schenker for the analysis of narrative structures in different media from within the same theoretical framework. Central to my narrative analysis is the conceptualisation of a desiring musical subject who seeks to establish a state of conjunction with an object of value, in this case a specific tonal centre. I consider the inflection of underlying tonal processes by voice‐leading structures in relation to an examination of the expressive course of the narrative discourse, leading to an interpretation in which Daphnis's victory can be understood to express and emphasise the tensions at the heart of French masculinity at the fin de siècle.

Effect of Christian Related Music on Choice of Music as a Study Subject by Muslim Students in Mombasa County, Kenya

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content of the secondary school music curriculum to establish the effect of the presence of Christian related music in the curriculum on the choice of Music as a study subject by Muslim students in Mombasa County, Kenya. The study used a survey research design. The sample population consisted of 27 participants as follows: 2 music teachers, 8 students, 8 parents, 1 Kenya Institute Curriculum Development Officer at the national level, 1 Quality Assurance and Standard Officer and 7 career masters. Data was collected through questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussion, which was analysed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings show that Christian beliefs compete with Islamic beliefs thus Muslim students find it offensive to pursue the subject and learn Christian related music and values therein. In conclusion, Christianity and Islamic beliefs are two dominant religions that are competing rather than complementing religions; Muslim students find it hard to pursue music subject due to the elements of Christian related music in the curriculum. The study recommends that the choice of music subject by Muslim students is dependent on the provision of Islamic music in the music curriculum and must be incorporated to attract their enrolment.

Research on the Artificial Intelligence Teaching System Model for Online Teaching of Classical Music under the Support of Wireless Networks

For the past year, everyone has been facing difficulties due to the fast spreading of the Corona Virus. As an extension, students, parents, and teachers are handling the challenges in the education sector. Since the COVID days, the schools and colleges were closed, and hence, the students were lagging in their subjects. As an alternative to this scenario, offline classes are converted to online courses, otherwise called virtual classes with virtual classrooms. Due to this conversion, the teaching has become a little more advanced by incorporating various computer‐based technologies. The technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and machine learning paved the way for exploring concepts in data transmission in terms of timely delivery of content, less error rate, and nontechnical terms like making the classes interactive and understanding the subject concepts. In this research work, the online teaching class on music is considered. To be specific, traditional Chinese music is taken for the study. An artificial intelligence model is designed with the aid of wireless sensor networks for the online class on the musical subject. Q‐learning algorithm, which is an artificial intelligence‐based reinforcement learning algorithm, is implemented. The aim of the Q‐learning algorithm in this online teaching of classical music is to check the frequency level of the music that aids in the automatic transfer of another wavelength inside the dataset.

RILM Index (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)

RILM Index is a partially controlled vocabulary designated to index scholarly writings on music and related subjects, created and curated by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM). It has been developed over 50 years and has served the music community as a primary research tool. This analytical review of the characteristics of RILM Index reveals several issues, related to the Index’s history, that impinge on its usefulness. An in-progress thesaurus is presented as a possible solution to these issues. RILM Index, despite being imperfect, provides a foundation for developing an ontological structure for both indexing and information retrieval purposes.

Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca

Reviewed by: Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca Deborah Stevenson, Editor LaRocca, Rajani Red, White, and Whole. Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 2021 [224p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780063047426 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780063047440 $9.99 Reviewed from digital galleys Ad Gr. 5-8 It's 1983, and thirteen-year-old Reha, narrator of this free-verse novel, is chafing gently at the expectations of her loving Indian immigrant parents for their only child ("My family did not come to America/ to be mediocre") and starting to wonder if medicine is the right career path for a girl who gets woozy at the sight of blood. She's also beginning to think her schoolmate Pete might be more than just a friend, an inclination that causes some consternation in the family. Those concerns shrink, however, when her mother is diagnosed with leukemia, and Reha and her father struggle to hold it together as Reha's mother is hospitalized for treatment. The verses (often titled with names of pop songs) keenly depict Reha's being caught between the family demands and the romantic messages of radio hits, and the musical theme culminates perfectly in her receiving that ultimate romantic gift: a mix tape. The story of family affection, especially that of the aunt who arrives from India to care for Reha and her father while her mother is in the hospital, is brimming with warmth. However, the pace is slow and the plotting often disjointed, undercutting the story's impact, especially that of Reha's mother's terminal illness. It's still an approachable account of negotiating identity and of struggling with loss, so readers looking for a gentle entry into those issues may appreciate Reha's journey. An author's note will be included in the final copy. [End Page 267] Copyright © 2021 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

CTC-Based Learning of Chroma Features for Score–Audio Music Retrieval

This paper deals with a scoreaudio music retrieval task where the aim is to find relevant audio recordings of Western classical music, given a short monophonic musical theme in symbolic notation as a query. Strategies for comparing score and audio data are often based on a common mid-level representation, such as chroma features, which capture melodic and harmonic properties. Recent studies demonstrated the effectiveness of deep neural networks that learn task-specific mid-level representations. Usually, such supervised learning approaches require scoreaudio pairs where individual note events of the score are aligned to the corresponding time positions of the audio excerpt. However, in practice, it is tedious to generate such strongly aligned training pairs. As one contribution of this paper, we show how to apply the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss in the training procedure, which only uses weakly aligned training pairs. In such a pair, only the time positions of the beginning and end of a theme occurrence are annotated in an audio recording, rather than requiring local alignment annotations. We evaluate the resulting features in our theme retrieval scenario and show that they improve the state of the art for this task. As a main result, we demonstrate that with the CTC-based training procedure using weakly annotated data, we can achieve results almost as good as with strongly annotated data. Furthermore, we assess our chroma features in depth by inspecting their temporal smoothness or granularity as an important property and by analyzing the impact of different degrees of musical complexity on the features.

Variations on a Theme by Vinteuil in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu

Even though Proust disparages the methods of “musicographies,” his descriptions of and comments on Vinteuil’s violin sonata, including the “petite phrase” as Swann’s favorite theme, are the subjects of this study. By defining the registering of a musical theme as a subjective occurrence, Proust avoids naming any single model; moreover, in the course of writing Recherche, he constantly adds new musical associations. On the one hand, Proust blurs references to his starting point—Saint-Saëns’s op. 75—and on the other hand, he manages to individuate the “petite phrase” by superimposing characteristics onto it. While allowing Swann as listener to formulate concrete associations regarding the imaginary “petite phrase,” he stimulates the reader, conversely, to imagine varying kinds of music to these associations.

Retracted] Optimization of an Intelligent Music‐Playing System Based on Network Communication

Streaming media server is the core system of audio and video application in the Internet; it has a wide range of applications in music recommendation. As song libraries and users of music websites and APPs continue to increase, user interaction data are generated at an increasingly fast rate, making the shortcomings of the original offline recommendation system and the advantages of the real‐time streaming recommendation system more and more obvious. This paper describes in detail the working methods and contents of each stage of the real‐time streaming music recommendation system, including requirement analysis, overall design, implementation of each module of the system, and system testing and analysis, from a practical scenario. Moreover, this paper analyzes the current research status and deficiencies in the field of music recommendation by analyzing the user interaction data of real music websites. From the actual requirements of the system, the functional and performance goals of the system are proposed to address these deficiencies, and then the functional structure, general architecture, and database model of the system are designed, and how to interact with the server side and the client side is investigated. For the implementation of data collection and statistics module, this paper adopts Flume and Kafka to collect user behavior data and uses Spark Streaming and Redis to count music popularity trends and support efficient query. The recommendation engine module in this paper is designed and optimized using Spark to implement incremental matrix decomposition on data streams, online collaborative topic model, and improved item‐based collaborative filtering algorithm. In the system testing section, the functionality and performance of the system are tested, and the recommendation engine is tested with real datasets to show the discovered music themes and analyze the test results in detail.

Stereotypes and Jewish Musical Topics in East German Film: Ambiguities and Allosemitism in Hotel Polan und seine Gäste

Abstract The miniseries Hotel Polan und seine Gäste tells the story of three generations of a Jewish family of hoteliers in Bohemia from 1908 to National Socialist persecution. Produced by GDR television in the early 1980s, the series was subsequently broadcast in other European countries and met with a mixed reception. Later on, scholars evaluated it as blatantly antisemitic and anti-Zionist. This essay seeks to re-evaluate these prerogatives by centring the analysis of the miniseries on a close reading of its music—a method not often used in Jewish studies, but a suitable lens through which to interrogate the employment of stereotypes, especially in film, and in light of textual sources from the Cold War era often being reflective of ideologies rather than facts. Employing critical theories of cultural studies and film music, it seeks to identify stereotypes and their dramatic placement and to analyse their operation. It asserts that story, image, and sound constitute both synchronous and asynchronous agents that perpetuate various stereotypes associated with Jews, thereby placing Hotel Polan in the liminal space of allosemitism. Constructed through difference from a perceived norm, Hotel Polan ultimately represents a space in which the egregious stereotype and the strategic employment of types meet. Its deployment of Jewish musical topics specifically shows that it is less their dramatic function that is of relevance, but the discourse that they have the power to enable.