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2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (09) ◽  
pp. 41-5591-41-5591
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2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motje Wolf

This article introduces research on the influence of teaching on the change of inexperienced listeners’ appreciation of electroacoustic music. A curriculum was developed to make Key Stage 3 students (11–14 years old)1 familiar with electroacoustic music. The curriculum introduced music using concepts, such as music with real-world sounds and music with generated sounds. Presented in an online environment and accompanied with a teachers’ handbook, the curriculum can be used online or as classroom-based teaching resource.The online environment was developed with the help of user-centred design. Following this, the curriculum was tested in a large-scale study including four Key Stage 3 classes within three schools in Leicester, UK. Data were collected using questionnaires, a listening response test and a summary of the teaching (letter written by participants). Qualitative content analysis was used for the data analysis.Results include the change of the participants’ appreciation of electroacoustic music during the study. Successful learning and a decrease in alienation towards electroacoustic music could be measured. The study shows that the appreciation of electroacoustic music can be enhanced through the acquirement of conceptual knowledge. Especially important was the enhancing of listening skills following a listening training as well as the broadening of the participants’ vocabulary that enabled them to describe their listening experience.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Palmer ◽  
Noah Holm ◽  
Marshall Stern ◽  
Marcia Hathaway ◽  
Krishona Martinson ◽  
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2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 263-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Holmes ◽  
David Robins ◽  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Athena Salaba

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Collins

A corpus of historical electronic art music is available online from the UbuWeb art resource site. Though the corpus has some flaws in its historical and cultural coverage (not least of which is an over-abundance of male composers), it provides an interesting test ground for automated electronic music analysis, and one which is available to other researchers for reproducible work. We deploy open source tools for music information retrieval; the code from this project is made freely available under the GNU GPL 3 for others to explore. Key findings include the contrasting performance of single summary statistics for works versus time series models, visualisations of trends over chronological time in audio features, the difficulty of predicting which year a given piece is from, and further illumination of the possibilities and challenges of automated music analysis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Kimberly Cunningham ◽  
Peter Deringer ◽  
Kelly McCormick

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald B. K. English ◽  
J. M. Bowker

In a recent article in this Journal, Whitehead (1992) presents a method for estimating annual economic surplus for recreation trips to a natural resource site based on whether an individual participates in recreation at that site. Whitehead proposes his method as an alternative to the traditional two-stage travel cost approach. We contend that Whitehead's method contains two serious problems. The first is theoretical, and results in an overstatement of the value of recreation trips. The second is empirical, and pertains to the likely misspecification of his model in failing to incorporate what we feel is important sample information. We address these issues in order.


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