Previous studies suggested that listening to different types of music may modulate differently psychological mood and physiological responses associated with the induced emotions. In this study the effect of listening to instrumental classical vs. atonal contemporary music was examined in a group of 50 non-expert listeners. The subjects' heart rate and diastolic and systolic blood pressure valu...

Dass gerade im Fach Gehörbildung negative Stimmungslagen bei Studierenden besonders kontraproduktiv für die angestrebten Bildungsziele sind, ist bekannt. Motivierend das Wissen, mit Hilfe fachspezifischer Fähigkeiten zu erwerben, Hilfestellungen spätere Berufspraxis darstellen. Das Unterrichtsprojekt Fachspezifische wurde an der Hochschule Musik und Theater München praktisch erprobt. Es basiert...

We investigated how musical phrasing and motor sequencing interact to yield timing patterns in the conservatory students' playing piano scales. We propose a novel analysis method that compared the measured note onsets to an objectively regular scale fitted to the data. Subsequently, we segment the timing variability into (i) systematic deviations from objective evenness that are perhaps residua...

The journal Problemy muzykal'noi nauki / Music Scholarship would like to present its readers with an interview Nina Siniakova, a composer and pianist of diverse cultural background broad interests. Her music explores the eternal subjects beauty, love, life, death. colleagues describe her style as “unique refined,” (Mark Hagerty, composer, USA) that in their opinion makes Siniakova “one most int...

Abstract Objectives Higher education student musicians face high physical, psychological, and emotional demands affecting their well-being academic experience. This study examined the feasibility preliminary effectiveness of so-called CRAFT program, based on mindfulness, yoga, positive psychology, intelligence, to improve psychological well-being, distress, regulation, physical flexibility amon...

The purpose of the article is to discover and reveal symbolism artefacts by painters, sculptors, carvers, other artists Galicia, dedicated Mykola Lysenko’s personality achievements. research methodology. historical-retrospective method has been applied find materials documents about existence artefacts, determine chronology motivation for their appearance. system-analytic enabled systematisatio...

The Wedelmusic Server Database System (WESDAsys) is a powerful application intended for music publishers, labels, conservatories and any other organisation that can be interested in storing, managing and finally distributing music and multimedia content on the Internet. It is the result of the R&D work carried out in the Wedelmusic project, financed by European Union IST programme. 1. System De...