one of the subjects that researchers are agreed on is hafez acquaintance to music and sing. extensive studies have been conducted on musical terms in hafez works; there are some words in his poems that are surrounded by a musical halo, however theirlexical meanings are still considered through the context of the poems, but nobody can get a profound understanding out of hafez’s artistic elegance...

Introduction: Themajority of patients receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy frequently complain of changes in their taste perception, and other distressing symptoms affecting their quality of life. This study was undertaken to determine the pattern of gustatory impairment and its recovery in irradiated head and neck cancer patients in India.   Materials and Methods: Thirty patients undergoing ...

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...

Despite the criticisms of subcultural theory as a framework for the sociological study of the relationship between youth, music, style and identity, the term ‘subculture’ continues to be widely used in such work. It is a central contention of this article that, as with subcultural theory, the concept of ‘subculture’ is unworkable as an objective analytical tool in sociological work on youth, mu...

The question of aesthetic taste and its relationship to moral worth was a common subject of eighteenth-century moralists and philosophers. Hermione Lee quotes Shaftesbury, Burke and Hume to show that, in the eighteenth century, ‘it was felt that taste for art, taste for literature, and taste or nature, were related, and were all three suggestive of one's moral worth.’ Critics have varied in the...

The ideation, conception and implementation of new musical interfaces and instruments provide more than the mere construction of digital objects. As physical and digital assemblages, interfaces also act as traces of the authoring entities that created them. Their intentions, likes, dislikes, and ultimate determinations of what is creatively useful all get embedded into the available choices of ...

Multisensory experiences, that is, experiences involve more than one of our senses, are part everyday life. We often tend to take them for granted, at least when different senses function normally (normal sight functioning) or corrected-to-normal (using glasses). However, closer inspection any, even the most mundane reveals remarkable sensory world in which we live in. While have built tools, a...

Mobile devices represent a growing research field within NIME, and a growing area for commercial music software. They present unique design challenges and opportunities, which are yet to be fully explored and exploited. In this paper, we propose using a survey method combined with qualitative analysis to investigate the way in which people use mobiles musically. We subsequently present as an ar...