Solmization in Music Reading

1937 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Author(s):  
Clel T. Silvey
Keyword(s):  
Music Reading

Diagram for Fire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Bialecki
Keyword(s):  
Southern California ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
The Will ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
Economic Choices ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How are miracles something that are at once unanticipated, and yet worked for? Finally, what do miracles tell us about Christianity, and even about the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with those questions through an detailed ethnographic study of the Vineyard, a Southern-California originated American Evangelical movement known for believing that biblical-style miracles are something that all Christians can perform today. This book sees the miracle a resource and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, and as an immanently-situated and fundamentally social means of producing change that operates through taking surprise and the unexpected, and using it to reimagine and reconfigure the will. A Diagram for Fire shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices such as prophesy, speaking in tongues, healing, and battling demons; but it also shows how the miraculous as a configuration also ends up shaping other practices that seem far from the miracle, such as a sense of temporality, music, reading, economic choices, and both conservative and progressive political imaginaries. This book suggests that the open potential of the miracle, and the ironic constriction of the miracle’s potential through the intentional attempt to embrace it, has much to tell us not only about how contemporary Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity both functions and changes, but about an underlying mutability that plays an important role in Christianity and even in religion writ large.

Neurocognitive Studies of Musical Literacy Acquisition

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-237
Author(s):  
Lauren Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Model ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Musical Notation ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
Sensorimotor Transformations ◽  
Systematic Effects ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Spatial Interference ◽  
Musical Response

Although certain parallels can be drawn between written language and notation in music — both use arbitrary visual symbols to notate the salient aspects of a sound pattern, the purpose of each notational system differs markedly. While the primary function of written language is to carry referential meaning, the primary function of musical notation is to carry instructions for the production of a musical performance. Music reading thus lies at the interface between perception and action and provides an ecological model with which to study how visual instructions influence the motor system. The studies presented in this article investigate how musical symbols on the page are decoded into a musical response, from both a cognitive and neurological perspective. The results of a musical Stroop paradigm are described, in which musical notation was present but irrelevant for task performance. The presence of musical notation produced systematic effects on reaction time, demonstrating that reading of the written note, as well as the written word, is obligatory for those who are musically literate. Spatial interference tasks are also described which suggest that music reading, at least for the pianist, can be characterized as a set of vertical to horizontal mappings. These behavioural findings are mirrored by the results of an fMRI training study in which musically untrained adults were taught to read music and play piano keyboard over a period of three months. Learning-specific changes were seen in superior parietal cortex and supramarginal gyrus, areas which are known to be involved in spatial sensorimotor transformations and preparation of learned actions respectively.

Multisensory Integration during Short-term Music Reading Training Enhances Both Uni- and Multisensory Cortical Processing

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 2224-2238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelos Paraskevopoulos ◽  
Anja Kuchenbuch ◽  
Sibylle C. Herholz ◽  
Christo Pantev
Keyword(s):  
Multisensory Integration ◽  
Superior Temporal Gyrus ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Cortical Responses ◽  
Anterior Prefrontal Cortex

The human ability to integrate the input of several sensory systems is essential for building a meaningful interpretation out of the complexity of the environment. Training studies have shown that the involvement of multiple senses during training enhances neuroplasticity, but it is not clear to what extent integration of the senses during training is required for the observed effects. This study intended to elucidate the differential contributions of uni- and multisensory elements of music reading training in the resulting plasticity of abstract audiovisual incongruency identification. We used magnetoencephalography to measure the pre- and posttraining cortical responses of two randomly assigned groups of participants that followed either an audiovisual music reading training that required multisensory integration (AV-Int group) or a unisensory training that had separate auditory and visual elements (AV-Sep group). Results revealed a network of frontal generators for the abstract audiovisual incongruency response, confirming previous findings, and indicated the central role of anterior prefrontal cortex in this process. Differential neuroplastic effects of the two types of training in frontal and temporal regions point to the crucial role of multisensory integration occurring during training. Moreover, a comparison of the posttraining cortical responses of both groups to a group of musicians that were tested using the same paradigm revealed that long-term music training leads to significantly greater responses than the short-term training of the AV-Int group in anterior prefrontal regions as well as to significantly greater responses than both short-term training protocols in the left superior temporal gyrus (STG).

scholarly journals Music-reading expertise modulates the visual span for English letters but not Chinese characters

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Sara T. K. Li ◽  
Susana T. L. Chung ◽  
Janet H. Hsiao
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Visual Span

scholarly journals The knowledge base of the oculomotor system

1997 ◽  
Vol 352 (1358) ◽  
pp. 1231-1239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Land ◽  
Sophie Furneaux
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Oculomotor System ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Music Reading ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Memory Buffer ◽  
Movement System ◽  
Motor Actions

In everyday life, eye movements enable the eyes to gather the information required for motor actions. They are thus proactive, anticipating actions rather than just responding to stimuli. This means that the oculomotor system needs to know where to look and what to look for. Using examples from table tennis, driving and music reading we show that the information the eye movement system requires is very varied in origin and highly task specific, and it is suggested that the control program or schema for a particular action must include directions for the oculomotor and visual processing systems. In many activities (reading text and music, typing, steering) processed information is held in a memory buffer for a period of about a second. This permits a match between the discontinuous input from the eyes and continuous motor output, and in particular allows the eyes to be involved in more than one task.

The Music-Reading Dilemma

1982 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 33-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Music Reading
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