Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary instrumental music education in rural North Carolina. This descriptive investigated the experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions that educators (n = 55) held about their schools, students, communities. Furthermore, researchers examined how participants defined success for programs, what challenges rewards they experienced p...

Music psychologists have frequently shown that music affects people’s behaviour. Applying this concept to work-related computing tasks has the potential to lead to improvements in a person’s productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. This paper presents two quantitative experiments exploring whether transcription typing performance is affected when hearing a music accompaniment that includes v...

The topic of song, songs, and singing extends across a vast number of art forms and genres back into prehistory. It stands astride the high-low art continuum, ranging from classical music to popular and folk music. Unlike other art forms that include both high and low genres (such as movies and novels), song and songs have always had multiple functions other than being objects of aesthetic appr...

Purpose – The purpose of this work is to analyze the concept of self-regulated learning and applying it to a web-based interface for music teaching. Design/methodology/approach – This work starts from a systematic review about music education and self-regulation during learning processes. Then, the paper identifies thosemeta-cognitive strategies that music students should adopt during their ins...

Pragmatists views, like those of John Dewey’s about music, emphasize the social nature musical sensibility, instrumental expressions and adaptation to changing circumstances. Indeed, expectancy violations expectations in music are tied memory human development. Cephalic (mind/brain/body) factors that underlie what we expect, variation on expected, inhere experiences. Music is a piece movement d...

The paper justifies the necessity to study musical-pedagogical technologies of forming culture piano performing-intoning as an essential component modern musical pedagogy. article describes innovative conceptions music a prosodic-meaningful art XX-XXI centuries, analyses performing-intoning. Scientific originality involves systematization scientific theoretical and methodological knowledge on A...

Locating singing voice segments is essential for convenient indexing, browsing and retrieval large music archives and catalogues. Furthermore, it is beneficial for automatic music transcription and annotations. The approach described in this paper usesMel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients in conjunction with Gaussian Mixture Models for discriminating two classes of data (instrumental music and si...

In this paper, the implementation of music in government preschools is studied from three aspects, namely music activities, teachers’ perception of the role of music in preschool education, and teachers’ self efficacy in music teaching. A questionnaire, which was designed according to the local curriculum syllabus, as well as adapted parts of Wu’s (1999) and Oreck’s (2001) research instruments,...