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Sing & Grow: A New Music Therapy Initiative to Meet Family Needs in Community Settings

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This paper reports a new initiative in music therapy to meet the needs of families with young children in community settings. The theoretical basis for this project, implementation in the community sector, and outcomes to date will be presented. Case vignettes will be presented that illustrate ho...
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MUSIC TRAINING INFLUENCES ON BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND AS A TOOL FOR LEARNING IMPROVEMENT

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The final purpose of this thesis is to explain and justify how early music training can be considered an additional educational tool to prepare the brain for a better learning improvement and human aesthetic-scientific balanced development. For that purpose the study conducts a qualitative resear...
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Interactive Performance for Musicians with a Hearing Impairment

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How can we perceive music if we cannot hear it properly? The achievements of deaf musicians suggest it is possible not only to perceive music, but to perform with other musicians. Yet very little research exists to explain how this is possible. This thesis addresses this problem and explores the ...
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Pragmatist Ironist Analysis and Embodied Interactivity: Experimental Approaches to Sensor-Based Interactive Music Systems Inspired by Music Analysis

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(Ashby 2010) approach inspired by music analysis and exploiting the potential of kinesthetic learning (associative learning). Prompted by a progressive approach to music analysis, theory, perception, and cognition (Dubiel 1999, Mailman 2007), interactive music technology can also...
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Musical beginnings – self-initiated musical play in an 8 month old baby

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"Babies begin their journey as an innately musical/poetical being (Trevarthen, 2009). Mutually positive emotions are an innate part of parent and baby communication (Flohr & Trevarthen, 2009 and Mazokopaki & Kugiumutzakis, 2009). A happy an...
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Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music (2002)

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The dual theories of embodied mind and situated cognition, in which physical/temporal embodiment and physical/social/cultural environment contribute crucially to the structure of mind, are brought to bear on issues in music perception. It is argued that cognitive universals grounded in human bodi...
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Microstructures of Feel, Macrostructures of Sound: Embodied Cognition in West African and African-American Musics (1998)

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The fundamental claim of this thesis is that music perception and cognition are embodied activities. This means that they depend crucially on the physical constraints and enablings of our sensorimotor apparatus, and also on the sociocultural environment in which our music-listening and -producing...
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Towards a theory of proprioception as a bodily basis for consciousness in music

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Musical consciousness is a difficult concept to define for a number of reasons. Not only is music a very broad and inclusive term comprising different activities (playing an instrument, listening to performances and recordings, composing, rememberi...
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Consciousness, Embodiment and Music Listening: An overview according to the findings of Gerald Edelman, Antonio Damasio and Daniel Stern

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The specific regions of the brain are integrated in extended functional systems. Two neuroscience scholars, Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio, have proposed comprehensive theoretical ac ...
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EXPLORING AND LEARNING MUSIC THROUGH EMBODIED EXPERIENCES

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This paper examines musical learning in the context of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Dalcroze Eurhythmics is an approach of music education that incorporates body movement, ear-training, and improvisation. The paper studies how Dalcroze Eurhythmics offers a possibility for students to explore music throu...
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Who am I? Implications of Musical Identity in the Training of Music Teachers and Music Therapists

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" In recent years, developmental psychology of music has become a growing research area with interesting issues concerning music across lifespan. Developmental research reports have usually been presented at such multid...
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Music, Movement, and Learning

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This chapter presents research about the relationship between movement and the music learning process. It examines the role of movement in music teaching and learning processes, and discusses how movement is used by music teachers. Since there is a relationship between music and movement, and mus...
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