scholarly journals Expressive Meaning and the Empirical Analysis of Musical Gesture

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Musical Expression ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Complex Emotions ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Expressive Meaning ◽  
Exposure Method ◽  
Musical Gesture ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Many investigations of the expressive meaning of musical works rely only on the musical interpretations and intuitions of the author. While invaluable, theorists’ analyses are often biased or contradict one another. This paper presents a novel empirical approach to analyzing musical expression, in which the interpretations of individual theorists are balanced with listener reception in a broader audience, in this case a group of 110 music students from two universities. This new paradigm, which I have termed “the progressive exposure method,” presents a larger excerpt in shorter discrete segments. An exploratory case study illustrates the progressive exposure method through an analysis of the expressive meaning of the second movement of Beethoven’sPathétiqueSonata. When the results are amalgamated, a diachronic portrait emerges of cognitively complex emotions blended together as they unfold throughout the movement. This article provides readers with a hands-on, interactive tool for examining all of the results of the study. By presenting short musical gestures to listeners, a bottom-up, data-driven analysis of the expressive meaning of musical gestures and topics in the movement is possible. The consequent analytical results intersect in unique ways with more traditional theoretical and analytical practices, illustrating original applications of empirical methods to existing theories of musical expression as a means of providing converging evidence for those theories. Specifically, the results of this intersubjective analysis are discussed in light of theories of musical meaning by Hatten, Meyer, Narmour, Huron, and Margulis, and the results provide a new opportunity to directly and empirically testing a number of these authors’ hypotheses.

Musical Gesture and Extra-Musical Meaning: Words and Music in the Urdu Ghazal

1990 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Procedure ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Music Structure ◽  
Musical Gesture ◽  
The One

This ethnomusicological inquiry into the text-music relationship assumes a broadly contextual perspective that encompasses, but goes beyond, traditional considerations of textual and musical structures with the aim of exploring the sources of meaning for what Edward Cone terms the "gestural character" of the musical utterance. The approach calls for making explicit the ideational framework as well as the performative function of a vocal genre, both of which inform the way its musical idiom serves to communicate a text in performance. The ghazal, subject of this case study, is the principal poetic form in Urdu; it is set to music in a number of related but distinct genres. Illustrated by a set of transcribed and translated examples, the analytical procedure first considers the text-music structure as a performance idiom that is subject to the cultural-historical background norms of Urdu poetry on the one hand and North Indian "light" music on the other. The second stage considers each particular genre in terms of its idiom's specific function in performance. The general conclusion is that music linked to ghazal poetry is structurally constrained by the text as performed, but that purely musical features articulate, and thus link, the text with the content of its performance. Hence ghazal music represents a synthesis of text and context in its embodiment of features drawn from both and expressed directly through a unique vocabulary of musical gestures.

Science Fiction and Administrative Truths: The Short Story and Novella as Administrative Cases

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Nolan J. Argyle ◽  
Lee M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Organizational Complexity ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Hands On

Pre-service and in-service MPA students share a common desire for hands-on, real world instruction related to their professional career goals, leading to a pedagogic discounting of fiction as an appropriate tool for analyzing and "solving" problems. However, several factors weigh heavily in favor of using science fiction short stories and novellas in the MPA classroom setting. These include the need for interesting case scenarios exploring various administrative issues; leveling the playing field between the two types of students by de-emphasizing the use of "contemporary" cases; access to literature that explores the future shock of increasing organizational complexity; and the desirability of Rorschach type materials that facilitate discussion of. values and administrative truths. The discussion proceeds by tracing the development of the case study technique, its advantages and disadvantages in the classroom, addressing the utility of "fiction" as an educational resource, and showing how the science fiction literature has matured to the point where it can be applied in all of the major sub-fields of public administration. Several outstanding examples are detailed, and a thorough bibliography is provided.

A Systematic Function Recommendation Process for Data-Driven Product and Service Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhinan Zhang ◽  
Ling Liu ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Fei Tao ◽  
Tianmeng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Target User

This paper presents a systematic function recommendation process (FRP) to recommend new functions to an existing product and service. Function plays a vital role in mapping user needs to design parameters (DPs) under constraints. It is imperative for manufacturers to continuously equip an existing product/service with exciting new functions. Traditionally, functions are mostly formulated by experienced designers and senior managers based on their subjective experience, knowledge, creativity, and even heuristics. Nevertheless, against the sweeping trend of information explosion, it is increasingly inefficient and unproductive for designers to manually formulate functions. In e-commerce, recommendation systems (RS) are ubiquitously used to recommend new products to users. In this study, the practically viable recommendation approaches are integrated with the theoretically sound design methodologies to serve a new paradigm of recommending new functions to an existing product/service. The aim is to address the problem of how to estimate an unknown rating that a target user would give to a candidate function that is not carried by the target product/service yet. A systematic function → product recommendation process is prescribed, followed by a detailed case study. It is indicated that practically meaningful functional recommendations (FRs) can indeed by generated through the proposed FRP.

scholarly journals Bad Enough Ergonomics

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401668513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virve Peteri
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Design ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Office Furniture ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
A Company ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Office Chair

The article analyzes ergonomics as a social and cultural phenomenon, as something that is formulated and described by speakers in a specific social context; in a company that is specialized in producing ergonomic office furniture. Through a case study of an office chair, the article examines how ergonomics and its association with the vision of the potential users and their working spaces are constructed by the relevant actors in project meetings and individual interviews during the manufacturing process. The article is concerned with how, in the process of producing an office chair, the chair gains an identity of an aesthetic design object and how this comes to mean the reformulation of the idea of ergonomics. The empirical analysis also provides insight into how the somewhat grand discourses of soft capitalism or aesthetic economy are not abstract, but very much grounded in everyday practices of an organization. The article establishes how the vision shared by all the relevant actors invites active, flexible, and cooperative end-users and how the vision also has potential material effects. The research is an ethnographically inspired case study that draws ideas from discursive psychology.

scholarly journals Integration of library services in the context of building university information environment. (Case study of Prioksky State University)

2016 ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Olga Borisova ◽  
Natalya Styopina
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
State University ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The University

The service-oriented approach of the university academic library is highlighted: The social institution of services is to increase quality of living, to be a tool of socializing and adaptation. The authors conclude that in the context of the education new paradigm the services make the focus of Prioksky State University Library to foster efficient library operation and coordination within the university divisions.

scholarly journals Paradigm Shift of New Building in Old Urban Districts: Case Study of Bangkok Chinatown Workshop

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05059
Author(s):  
Xian Li ◽  
Eakachat Joneurairatana ◽  
Veerawat Sirivesmas
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Era ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Combination Mode ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings

Architects and designers realize that new buildings cannot completely replace old buildings in the process of urbanization in the world. To establish a method of the new building and the old building coexist and to create the new paradigm of the new building construction in the old district is the responsibility faced by the contemporary architects. This paper first analyzes the old building renovation projects in Berlin and Paris in the 1980s and puts forward the symbiotic relationship between the old and the new buildings in the new era, thus obtaining the research objectives, trying to redefine new buildings and old districts, and creating the new paradigm of contemporary building construction in old districts. Using workshop as an exploration method, this paper conducts data research and sampling analyses on the Chinatown area in Bangkok, and explores the combination mode and paradigm transformation of new buildings and old districts in the city, aiming to seek solutions utilizing art exploration.

scholarly journals Forum Gumeulis: Upaya Peningkatan Kompetensi Guru dalam Menulis Karya Ilmiah di Kota Tasikmalaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 418-429
Author(s):  
Caswita
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Teacher Competency ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
The City

[FORUM GUMEULIS: EFFORTS TO IMPROVE TEACHER COMPETENCE IN WRITING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN TASIKMALAYA CITY]. The purpose of this study is to describe efforts to improve teacher competency in writing scientific papers through the activities of the Gumeulis forum in the City of Tasikmalaya, through training, guidance, mentoring and hands-on practice. The research method used is qualitative research with a type of case study. Data collection techniques through interviews, observation, and study of documentation. The results showed: (1) improvement of teacher competency in the city of Tasikmalaya in making the scientific paper more effectively carried out through teacher writing forums. (2) the development of teacher professional competence in making scientific papers through the Gumeulis forum activities shows an increase in teacher competency. (3) through the Gumeulis forum, there is mutual interaction together to learn to make Eastern Indonesia. (4), the Gumeulis Forum can create a conducive academic climate in improving teacher competency in creating scientific papers. The conclusion of the research shows that by learning together in the community will be able to improve the competence of teachers in writing scientific papers. This is because among members can discuss and learn together. Under the guidance of senior teachers in the community.

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