Musical Biography in the Musicological Arena

Computational Analysis of Musical Influence: A Musicological Case Study Using MIR Tools

Are there new insights through computational methods to the thorny problem of plotting the flow of musical influence? This project, motivated by a musicological study of early synth pop, applies MIR tools as an aid to the investigator. Web scraping and web services provide one angle, sourcing data from allmusic.com, and utilising python APIs for last.fm, EchoNest, and MusicBrainz. Charts of inf...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

The Arena: December 1966: Arena

The Arena: December 1965: Arena

Cholera: The Biography

Cholera: The Biography, by Christopher Hamlin, joins Obesity, Asthma, Hysteria, Diabetes, Thalassaemia, and Down’s Syndrome as part of the Oxford University Press series Biographies of Diseases. As great a read as Tuberculosis (Biographies of Disease) (1), Hamlin’s book does an excellent job of treating a complex subject with scientifi c rigor while also being completely accessible to a lay aud...