Mawlid as a Musical Form in Turkish Religious Music

Music As a Sacred Cue? Effects of Religious Music on Moral Behavior

Religion can have an important influence in moral decision-making, and religious reminders may deter people from unethical behavior. Previous research indicated that religious contexts may increase prosocial behavior and reduce cheating. However, the perceptual-behavioral link between religious contexts and decision-making lacks thorough scientific understanding. This study adds to the current ...

Musical performance anxiety as a form of social anxiety?

The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between social anxiety and musical performance anxiety (MPA). Previous literature has reported mixed results concerning correlations between social anxiety and MPA. To better describe overlapping and unique features in comparison with social anxiety disorder may introduce new options for treatment. The aim of the current study was...

Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience

An earlier version of this book review appeared in Film Interernational, Nov. 13, 2013 (http://filmint.nu/ ?p=10038). It appears here by permission. Author Notes Brandon Konecny recently graduated from the Film Studies program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is a two-time scholarship recipient of the Fluor Scholarship Foundation, winner of the UNCW Award for Excellence in Fil...

Whose Music Is It Anyway?: How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form Of Property -- Part I

Rhythmic Similarity in Traditional Turkish Music

In this paper, the problem of automatically assigning a piece of traditional Turkish music into a class of rhythm referred to as usul is addressed. For this, an approach for rhythmic similarity measurement based on scale transforms has been evaluated on a set of MIDI data. Because this task is related to time signature estimation, the accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated and compared wi...