research on popular music in iran has a short history. perhaps the article “sociology of the music of the masses in iran”, published in 1980, can be considered as the first methodological and systematic study on the popular music in iran.  in that article, the researcher, using marxist and neo-marxist approaches to study popular music, provides a general view on the music of the masses of the p...

This paper begins by exploring the notions of resistance and protest in popular music. Although terms have been used Anglophone discussions music for some hundred years, there is a tendency to treat them as synonymous. The draws on work David Laing (2003), who considers distinction between songs songs, also extends Barbara Harlow’s (1987) conceptualisation poetry similarly compressed discourse ...

Music, like medicine, can be used to damage as well heal, and there is a long history linking music with punishment rituals, torture. However, the common tendency think about violence injury in terms of physical force visible scars means that impacts psychological social have often been downplayed, even silenced. The emphasis on physicality also results erroneous ideas torture: for example, ass...

Background and Purpose: Due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. Methods: The present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing cancer chem...

Background in music theory and analysis. Polyphonic vocal intonation practices have been addressed in a number of studies on vocal acoustics. Our research both builds on this work and supplements it with a theoretical paradigm based on work done in the areas of sensory consonance and tonal attraction. Background in computing. Recent work in the field of music information retrieval has discussed...

Developing a theoretical framework for electro-acoustic music presents an array of problems not present in the analysis of Western tonal and post-tonal music. We present a theoretical framework characterized by the interaction of a perceptual and an analytic model. The perception of a composition is used to inform the analytic model. The analytic model examines aspects of a composition ranging ...

In treating the subject of musical language, a Persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the Persian music and language. Indeed Persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). Although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” c...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

comparison of the effect of instrumental music and voices of holy quran on anxiety of woman before cesarean.     sharifi a [1] *, alipour a [2] , baharloei s [3]     received: 24 aug, 2012 accepted: 20 nov, 2012   abstract   background & aims : fear and anxiety before surgery characterized with the stress with arousal of the autonomic nervous system that causes physical and psychological change...