The journal Problemy muzykal'noi nauki / Music Scholarship would like to present its readers with an interview Nina Siniakova, a composer and pianist of diverse cultural background broad interests. Her music explores the eternal subjects beauty, love, life, death. colleagues describe her style as “unique refined,” (Mark Hagerty, composer, USA) that in their opinion makes Siniakova “one most int...

Variability of Practice (VOP) refers to the acquisition of a particular target movement by practicing a range of varying targets rather than by focusing on fixed repetitions of the target only. VOP has been demonstrated to have beneficial effects on transfer to a novel task and on skill consolidation. This study extends the line of research to musical practice. In a task resembling a barrier-kn...

The relationship between musical structure, perception and meaning can be understood as a key to the development of theory post-tonal music. Preliminaries this are developed in three “variations”. First, review difficult music new 20th century is explained by (1) an increasingly diverse compositional practice that has lead composer-centred “theory”, often amounting nothing more than scantily co...

Different types of digital learning environments have evolved over the years and there is an ongoing evolvement of different concepts and technology. During the last 10-15 years Learning Management Systems have dominated. In recent years there has been a development of concepts like Personal Learning Environments using mashup technology. This paper presents a study of a mashup approach to the d...

Synthesis from components is the automated construction of a composite system from a library of reusable components such that the system satisfies the given specification. This is in contrast to classical synthesis, where systems are always “constructed from scratch”. In the control-flow model of composition, exactly one component is in control at a given time and control is switched to another...

Acknowledgments Improvisation Contextualized Improvisation vs. Composition Improvisation in Keyboard Pedagogy Teaching Philosophy of Robert Pace Improvisation in Current Piano Method Books Keyboard Reading Approaches Method Book Review Frances Clark and the Music Tree Faber and Piano Adventures The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Robert Pace and Musicfor Piano Application of Improvisation in ...

most outstanding of all child composers " (192), serves as Cooper's star example of a prodigy who veers later into conservatism. Despite the scarcity of documentation across the spectrum of child composers , Cooper's observations in this chapter are among his most interesting. Despite the book's reference value and insightful observations, however, its limitations tend to overwhelm it. Again, t...