Music Performance Anxiety: Can Expressive Writing Intervention Help?

Implementing an Expressive Writing Intervention for Test Anxiety in a Large College Course †

The role of expressive writing in math anxiety.

Math anxiety is a negative affective reaction to situations involving math. Previous work demonstrates that math anxiety can negatively impact math problem solving by creating performance-related worries that disrupt the working memory needed for the task at hand. By leveraging knowledge about the mechanism underlying the math anxiety-performance relationship, we tested the effectiveness of a s...

Modeling Expressive Music Performance in Jazz

In this paper we describe a machine learning approach to one of the most challenging aspects of computer music: modeling the knowledge applied by a musician when performing a score in order to produce an expressive performance of a piece. We apply machine learning techniques to a set of monophonic recordings of Jazz standards in order to induce both rules and a numeric model for expressive perf...

Extracting Expressive Performance Information from Recorded Music

A computer system is described which performs polyphonic transcription of known solo piano music by using high-level musical information to guide a signal-processing system. This process, which we term expressive performance extraction, maps a digital audio representation of a musical performance to a MIDI representation of the same performance using the score of the music as a guide. Analysis ...

Marketing Digital Music: Can DRM Help?

We argue that Digital Rights Management technologies can serve a number of marketing purposes that will make it easier for newcoming artists to expose their products to consumers and that will allow established artists to fine tune their offerings to consumers'