Victorian Music. VI. Opera

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Vi Neuroscience of Music and Emotion

The chapter discusses recent studies of neural representations of musical emotions. Despite an increasing number of empirical studies on the emotional effects of music, there is paucity of brain research that has identified the underlying neural networks. It is argued that the representation of musical emotions might be based on similar structures as compared to emotions in other domains. Conse...

An optical music recognition system for traditional Chinese Kunqu Opera scores written in Gong-Che Notation

This paper presents an optical music recognition (OMR) system to process the handwritten musical scores of Kunqu Opera written in Gong-Che Notation (GCN). First, it introduces the background of Kunqu Opera and GCN. Kunqu Opera is one of the oldest forms of musical activity, spanning the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and GCN has been the most popular notation for recording musical works in ...

Empathy Manipulation Impacts Music-Induced Emotions: A Psychophysiological Study on Opera

This study investigated the effects of voluntarily empathizing with a musical performer (i.e., cognitive empathy) on music-induced emotions and their underlying physiological activity. N = 56 participants watched video-clips of two operatic compositions performed in concerts, with low or high empathy instructions. Heart rate and heart rate variability, skin conductance level (SCL), and respirat...

Creating a Corpus of Jingju (Beijing Opera) Music and Possibilities for Melodic Analysis

Jingju (Beijing opera) is a Chinese traditional performing art form in which theatrical and musical elements are intimately combined. As an oral tradition, its musical dimension is the result of the application of a series of predefined conventions and it offers unique concepts for musicological research. Computational analyses of jingju music are still scarce, and only a few studies have dealt...