The effects of three practice schedules on beginning instrumental achievement were explored. A total of 19 seventhgrade clarinet and saxophone students completed one 18-minute practice session using either a blocked schedule causing a low level of cognitive (contextual) interference, a hybrid schedule causing a moderate level of interference, or a serial schedule causing a high level of interfe...

We propose a machine learning method for recognizing modern Arabic poems based on the common poetic features of modern Arabic poetry. The poetic features include: rhyming, repetition, use of diacritics and punctuations, and text alignment. The method can classify text documents as poem or non-poem documents with a very high accuracy of 99.81%.

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

The evolutionary basis for the development of music in humans has been an enduring mystery. The theory presented here posits that musicality evolved in humans by conferring direct fitness benefits by enabling hominid communicators to influence the persistence of memories of information communicated to other hominids via a musical “coding” process. This ability provided increasing adaptive advan...

Abstract While the aesthetics of Rancière is a well-explored topic, there has been something missing from reception his works, and that relation between Rancière’s music. However, in recent years an interest this resulted several academic contributions, which sign enough fact musical element works. himself, response to reception, acknowledged as much. Music human form expression uses physicalit...

Research into the origins of music and language can shed new light on musical representation, including program music and more recent incarnations such as data sonification. Although sonification and program music have different aims—one scientific explication, the other artistic expression—similar techniques, relying on human and animal biology, cognition, and culture, underlie both. Examples ...

To engage with questions of musicality is to invite into consideration a complex network of topics beyond the mechanics of soundful interaction with our interfaces. Drawing on the work of Born, I sketch an outline of the reach of these topics. I suggest that practice-led methods, by dint of focussing on the lived experience where many of these topics converge, may be able to serve as a useful m...