The Nazi Confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s Musical Collection and Its Aftermath

2020 ◽  
pp. 429-449
Author(s):  
Carla Shapreau
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Music School ◽  
Music Books ◽  
Printed Music

This chapter discusses the Nazis' confiscation of Wanda Landowska's musical collection and how it was partly recovered after the war. It recounts Landowska's career before the Germans invaded France in May 1940 and describes her as an internationally renowned harpsichord and piano soloist and an accomplished scholar, writer, teacher, and composer. It also highlights Landowska's extensive music library, which included manuscripts, rare printed music, books, and an impressive antique musical instrument collection. The chapter recounts how the Nazis plundered Landowski's musical treasures in September 1940 after Landowska fled her home and music school at 88 rue de Pontoise, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt. It describes Landowska's library that contained approximately 10,000 objects, which reflected Landowska's intellectual and aesthetic sensibilities, her eclectic interests, and to some extent her heritage.

scholarly journals Training Using a Commercial Immersive Virtual Reality System on Hand–Eye Coordination and Reaction Time in Young Musicians: A Pilot Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1297
Author(s):  
Sebastian Rutkowski ◽  
Mateusz Adamczyk ◽  
Agnieszka Pastuła ◽  
Edyta Gos ◽  
Carlos Luque-Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Time Trial ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Dominant Hand ◽  
School Students ◽  
Music School ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hand Eye Coordination

The implementation of virtual reality (VR) opens up a wide range of possibilities for the development of dexterity, speed and precision of movements. The aim of this study was to investigate whether immersive VR training affected the hand–eye coordination and reaction time in students of the state music school. This study implemented a single-group pre-post study design. This study enrolled 14 individuals, submitted to a 15 min training session of the immersive music game “Beat Saber”, once a day for 5 consecutive days. The plate-tapping test (PTT) and the ruler-drop test (Ditrich’s test) were used to assess the reaction time. Trial-making test (TMT) A and TMT B were used to assess coordination and visual attention. Analysis of the results showed a statistically significant improvement in hand–eye coordination and reaction time of music school students using the TMT-A (p < 0.002), TMT-B (p < 0.001), Ditrich’s test for the non-dominant hand (0.025) and PTT (0.0001) after applying a week-long training period in immersive VR. The results obtained in the present study show that the VR system, along with the immersive music game, has the potential to improve hand–eye coordination and reaction time in young musicians, which may lead to the faster mastering of a musical instrument.

scholarly journals GAMBARAN TEKANAN DARAH PADA PEMAIN MUSIK DI SEKOLAH MUSIK TOMS YAMAHA MUSIC SCHOOL MANADO

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermin Garusim ◽  
Joice N. A Engka ◽  
Siantan Supit
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Mild Hypertension ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Music School ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Music Player

Abstract: Blood pressureand pulse rateis very important in the health sectorin general, and particularly in the field of medicine, since the blood pressure and pulse rateis a factor that can be used as an indicator to assessa person's cardiovascular system. Blood pressure is the force used by the blood against the walls of blood vessels (arteries). Blood pressure is a vital sign in the human body. Numerous studies have shown an relationship between changes of blood pressure with pounding music that are to heard or playing a musical instrument. Physiologically increases and decreasesin blood pressurecan becaused bya particulargenre. As well as the increase and decrease in blood pressure both before and after playing music in fluenced by physical activity while playing certain musical instruments. For example, a drum player, his blood pressure willincrease two-fold in time afterplayingthe music, and theviolin decreased time after playing music. The purpose of this study, was to determine what kind of instrument music that can increase and decrease blood pressure. The type of research is observational with cross sectional study. The variable in this study is a music player and high blood pressure. The subjects was students in the school musical TOM's Yamaha Music School as many as 40 people who have met the criteria for inclusion are aged 10-35 years consisted of men and women, physically and mentally healthy, not suffering from hypertension and signed the informed consent. Measurement of blood pressure used tensimeter aneroid ABN spectrum and Littmann stethoscope. Before playing the music, the averages blood pressure with result that optimal is 106/74mmHg, the averages blood pressure with result that normal is 121/80mmHg, the averages blood pressure with result that high normal is 130/90mmHg, and the averages blood pressure with result that mild hypertension is 140/92mmHg. Based on this research, it was found there are difference in a blood pressure before and after playing music. The normal blood pressure before playing music and will increase or decrease in time after playing the music.Key words: Blood pressure, MusicAbstrak: Tekanan darah dan denyut nadi merupakan hal yang sangat penting dalam bidang kesehatan pada umumnya dan khususnya di bidang Kedokteran, karena tekanan darah maupun denyut nadi merupakan faktor yang dapat dipakai sebagai indikator untuk menilai sistem kardiovaskuler seseorang. Tekanan darah adalah tenaga yang di gunakan oleh darah terhadap diding pembuluh darah (arteri). Tekanan darah merupakan salah satu tanda vital di dalam tubuh manusia. Sejumlah penelitian menunjukkan adanya keterkaitan antara perubahan tekanan darah dengan dentuman musik baik yang hanya didengarkan maupun pada saat memainkan alat musik. Secara fisiologis peningkatan dan penurunan tekanan darah dapat diakibatkan oleh aliran musik tertentu. Serta Peningkatan dan penurunan tekanan darah pada saat sebelum dan sesudah bermain musik dipengaruhi oleh aktifitas fisik saat memainkan alat musik tertentu. Misalnya pemain musik drum, tekanan darahnya akan meningkat dua kali lipat pada saat sesudah bermain musik, dan violin (biola) menurun saat sesudah bermain musik.Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui jenis alat musik apa yang dapat meningkatkan dan menurunkan tekanan darah. Adapun jenis penelitian ini adalah observasional dengan rancangan cross sectional study. Adapun variable pada penelitian ini adalah pemain musik dan tekanan darah. Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa – siswi di sekolah musik TOM’s Yamaha Music school yaitu sebanyak 40 orang yang telah memenuhi criteria inklusi yaitu berumur 10-35 tahun terdiri atas pria dan wanita, sehat jasmani dan rohani, tidak menderita hipertensi dan menandatangani informed consent. Pengukuran tekanan darah menggunakan tensimeter aneroid ABN spectrum dan stetoskop Littman. Sebelum bermain musik hasil didapatkan tekanan darah optimal dengan rata – rata tekanan darah 106/74mmHg, tekanan darah normal dengan rata – rata 121/80mmHg, tekanan darah normal tinggi 130/90mmHg, dan tekanan darah dengan hipertensi ringan rata – rata 140/92mmHg. Berdasarkan penelitian yang telah dilakukan, didapatkan adanya perbedaan tekanan darah yang dilakukan saat sebelum dan sesudah bermain musik. Tekanan darah normal pada saat sebelum bermain musik dan akan meningkat atau menurun pada saat sesudah bermain musik.Kata Kunci : tekanan darah, musik

Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s American Years

2020 ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
Sławomir Dobrzański
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Music Books ◽  
Printed Music ◽  
Source Of Information

This chapter examines the American career of Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. It recalls the personality of Kassern as a forgotten composer and one of the most neglected Polish composers of the twentieth century. It also references Violetta Kostka's book Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern as the most substantial source of information about him. The chapter looks into Kassern's appointment as cultural attaché in the Polish consulate in New York in October 1945, of which the decision was based on his experience as a lawyer, familiarity with the Polish cultural milieu in Poland and abroad, and knowledge of several foreign languages. It recounts how Kassern organized shipments of printed music, books, musical instruments, and clothes and food to Poland as part of the Chopin Fund that was initiated by the pianist Artur Rubinstein.

scholarly journals МУЗЫКАЛЬНОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ: ТРАДИЦИИ, ПРОБЛЕМЫ, ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Shishlyannikova
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Music Teacher Education ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Music School ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The One

Обозначена проблема сохранения и развития традиций системы массового музыкального воспитания, созданной под руководством Д. Б. Кабалевского. Сформулированы ее достоинства и актуализирована необходимость поддержки музыкального и музыкально-педагогического образования в целях сохранения лучших традиций прошлого и внедрения инновационных технологий, в том числе с использованием цифрового инструментария для стимулирования формирования музыкальной культуры современных школьников средствами интерактивного музицирования. Выделена основополагающая характеристика профессии педагога-музыканта российской общеобразовательной школы – многопрофильность. Помимо общепедагогической подготовки, он обязательно должен владеть игрой на инструменте, четкой и выразительной дирижерско-хоровой техникой, профессиональным вокальным показом произведения, предназначенного для разучивания с учащимися; иметь основательную подготовку в области истории и теории музыки. Такую совокупность компетенций учителя музыки не формирует ни одна страна в мире. Данная многопрофильность, с одной стороны, создает трудности при подготовке будущего педагога-музыканта, с другой – обеспечивает возможность быть востребованным на рынке труда в качестве учителя музыки в общеобразовательной и музыкальной школе, музыкальным руководителем в дошкольном учреждении, руководителем хорового коллектива, исполнителем на музыкальном инструменте в оркестре.The problem of the preservation and development of the traditions of the system of mass musical education, created under the direction of D. B. Kabalevsky, is outlined. Its advantages are formulated and the need to support music and music-teacher education is updated in order to preserve the best traditions of the past and introduce innovative technologies, including using digital tools to stimulate the formation of the musical culture of modern students by means of interactive music making. Multidisciplinary is highlighted as the basic characteristic of the profession of a teacher-musician in Russian comprehensive school. Beside pedagogical training, a teacher-musician must play musical instrument, have expressive and clear choirconductor technique, be able to show vocal creations professionally in the sphere of school repertoire. Teacher-musician must have a profound background in the sphere of history and theory of music. Such a set of competencies of a music teacher is not formed by any country in the world. This versatility, on the one hand, creates difficulties in preparing a future teacher-musician, on the other hand, it makes it possible to be in demand on the labor market as a music teacher in a comprehensive school and music school, as a music director in a preschool institution, as a leader of a choir, and as a musician in the orchestra.

Musical Experience Shapes Neural Processing

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Wido Nager ◽  
Tilla Franke ◽  
Tobias Wagner-Altendorf ◽  
Eckart Altenmüller ◽  
Thomas F. Münte
Keyword(s):  
Mismatch Negativity ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Neural Processing ◽  
Neural Adaptations

Abstract. Playing a musical instrument professionally has been shown to lead to structural and functional neural adaptations, making musicians valuable subjects for neuroplasticity research. Here, we follow the hypothesis that specific musical demands further shape neural processing. To test this assumption, we subjected groups of professional drummers, professional woodwind players, and nonmusicians to pure tone sequences and drum sequences in which infrequent anticipations of tones or drum beats had been inserted. Passively listening to these sequences elicited a mismatch negativity to the temporally deviant stimuli which was greater in the musicians for tone series and particularly large for drummers for drum sequences. In active listening conditions drummers more accurately and more quickly detected temporally deviant stimuli.

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