Poetic Musicology among Musical Discourses: The Poet as a Listener

The Pathologist as Poet

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

Music Information Retrieval , Musicology , and Musical Genre

Investigating Listener Bias Against Musical Metacreativity

We present an empirical study investigating the hypothesis that listeners hold a bias against computer-composed music. Presented in part as a replication study, the proposed methodology seeks to improve upon weaknesses found in previous studies of the subject. Across two study periods, with approximately 60 subjects each, we failed to find evidence of a significant bias against computer-compose...

the effect of using learning logs as a self-assessment tool on the syntactic development among iranian pre-intermediate efl learners

چکیده: هدف از انجام این پژوهش ،بررسی استفاده از یادداشتهای یادگیری به عنوان یکی از ابزار های خود ارزشیابی بر افزایش مهارت دستوری (صورتهای شرطی و مجهول) زبان آموزان در مقطع پیش متوسطه بوده است .بدین منظور یک تست استاندارد در مقطع پیش متوسطه بین 90 نفر زبان آموز در سنین 15 تا 20 سال در آموزشگاه زبان انگلیسی امین و پارسا در شهرستان شاهرود برگزار شد از میان این افراد 60 فراگیر انتخاب شدند. و این 6...

Intentional Interpretation of the Poetic Text as a Key to the Author’s Self-Concept

Author's self-concept within our meaning is the self-presentation of rhymes in the content-related structure and reveals itself in the context of intentional interpretation of the poetic text, i.e. decoding the subject-matter and ideology rooted in it, complex of imageries and symbolic components. Hitting a target in seeking the key to the author’s self-concept is undertaken through the c...