In the 1980s and early 2000s, Chinese composers wrote largest number of piano concertos in entire century-long history this genre musical state. Among them, most recognized different countries were works Huang Anlun Du Mingxin. Along with fame pianists who performed them importance themselves music China, a considerable merit is seen enrichment their concerts symphonic principles that influence...

New in this issue is the first of what is intended to be a series of ‘Meet the committee’ interviews. e featured interviewee is Jill House, a loyal and long-standing member of the Club and committee, and a singer of remarkable versatility. Other items include reviews of last season’s CMC concerts and of a seminar at the Institute of Musical Resear; articles on two of ’s anniversary compos...

In the 19th century, leading piano pedagogues stressed importance of accuracy and speed in playing. "Nothing is worse than wrong notes," wrote Czerny, only to be chastised by Beethoven asking for more musical teaching. 20th 21st-century research has shown that this technic-interpretation divide a false dichotomy: even early-level students are able discern emotional expression form while simulta...

Can the arts be analyzed in a quantitative manner? We propose a methodology to study music development by applying multivariate statistics on composers characteristics. Seven representative composers were considered in terms of eight main musical features. Grades were assigned to each characteristic and their correlations were analyzed. A bootstrap method was applied to simulate hundreds of art...

The experience of flow, or optimal experience (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990, 2002), is an intensely rewarding psychological state that has been linked with peak performance and high achievement in a variety of settings ranging from competitive sports to the workplace. While the concept of flow remains somewhat elusive, its study has broad implications for training as well as for pedagogical and motiv...

This study is distinguished by distancing itself from the type of multimedia research that looks at the etTects of multimedia instructional units on students. The approach. instead, is within a constructionist learning paradigm and the research task is to take the first steps to begin to know what we don’t know about the student creation of multimedia documents. The outcome of preliminary resea...

The purpose of this study is to design a portable virtual piano. By utilizing optical fiber gloves and the virtual piano software designed by this study, the user can play the piano anywhere at any time. This virtual piano consists of three major parts: finger tapping identification, hand movement and positioning identification, and MIDI software sound effect simulation. To play the virtual pia...

ABSTRACT Female composers occupy and important visible place in Poland’s contemporary musical culture, which they co-create thanks to their versatile activity (creative, organisational, didactic). They include Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz (b. 1978), a composer from Zielona Góra with substantial oeuvre (67 works), who for some time has devoted herself carillon music (e.g. Epitafium Paweł Adamowicz...