Purpose: A music-related quality of life (MuRQoL) questionnaire was developed for the evaluation of music rehabilitation for adult cochlear implant (CI) users. The present studies were aimed at refinement and validation. Method: Twenty-four experts reviewed the MuRQoL items for face validity. A refined version was completed by 147 adult CI users and psychometric techniques were used for item se...

We report the results of a survey on music listening and management behaviours. The survey was conducted online with 222 participants with mostly technical backgrounds drawn from a college age population. The median size of offline music collections was found to be roughly 2540 songs (sum of physical media and digital files). The major findings of our survey show that elements such as familiari...

Abstract The frequent references to the actors and events of French Revolutionary Napoleonic wars in titles dance tunes period raise question how we should understand their significance. This article argues that practice is one a number examples music song shaping people's lived experience behavior ways were rarely fully conscious. Drawing on range collections, diaries, journals, need recognize...

Music is primarily auditory but also includes visual elements such as: notation or mental images while hearing music. Music television like MTV or the visualization of music by visual jockeys (VJs) are further examples of combining music with images. However, not much is known about the interaction between auditory and visual representation and perception [1]. How can graphic visualizations int...

ASD or Autism Spectrum Diorders are the most strange psychological disorders in which children can’t show their emotions, fears and anxiety as soon as the normal children. They suffer from the social interactions , the stereotypic behaviors and verbal skills impairments and these problems can lead to withdrawal and other behavioral problems. Among the psychological strategies, art therapy...

This study addresses the perception of Arabic improvised music. The modal musical system (maqâm) as well as the model par excellence of instantaneous musical exposition and composition, instrumental improvisation (taqŝım), are presented. The classical Arabic maqâm (plural maqâmât) is defined in terms of other fundamental interactive elements. The role of modal perception in the mental organizat...

ABSTRACT Commencing from an elaboration of extant theoretical and analytical positions in Monteverdi studies, this article closely analyses two the most well‐known arias Claudio Monteverdi's earliest opera, L'Orfeo (1607), melodic perspective Karnatik music South India. In identifying ragas within structures, approach evidences author's practice‐based explorations while harking back to global i...

The dominant theory of what people can learn implicitly is that they learn chunks of adjacent elements in sequences. A type of musical grammar that goes beyond specifying allowable chunks is provided by serialist or 12-tone music. The rules constitute operations over variables and could not be appreciated as such by a system that can only chunk elements together. A series of studies investigate...