Musical Appreciation

The Appreciation of Musical Intervals

Channeling Bamberger : An Unorthodox Appreciation of Jeanne Bamberger ’ s Work on Musical Development and Musical Understanding

This article serves as a tribute to Bamberger as a notable researcher and teacher. The author articulates “working principles” that characterize Bamberger’s work and draws comparisons between two programs, Impromptu and Music Exploration Machine (MxM). From the perspective of music cognition, the most significant elements of this paper concern explicitly representing grouping structure and redu...

Applying Computer-assissted Musical Instruction to Music Appreciation Course: an Example with Chinese Musical Instruments

This study aims to explore the effectiveness of computer-assisted musical instruction (CAMI) in the Learning Chinese Musical Instruments (LCMI) course. The CAMI software for Chinese musical instruments was developed and administered to 228 students in a vocational high school. A pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design with three classes designated as the experimental group for the ...

Tuning-in to the beat: Aesthetic appreciation of musical rhythms correlates with a premotor activity boost.

Listening to music can induce us to tune in to its beat. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that the motor system becomes involved in perceptual rhythm and timing tasks in general, as well as during preference-related responses to music. However, the role of preferred rhythm and, in particular, of preferred beat frequency (tempo) in driving activity in the motor system remains unknown. Th...

Development of a clinical test of musical perception: appreciation of music in cochlear implantees (AMICI).

The purpose of this study was to develop a test to assess the ability of persons with cochlear implants (CIs) to interpret musical signals. Up to this time, the main direction in outcomes studies of cochlear implantation has been in relation to speech recognition abilities. With improvement in CI hardware and processing strategies, there has been a growing interest in musical perception as a di...