The Physics of Musical Sound

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Thom Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Musical Sound

Musical shape and feeling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Sensorimotor System ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Sensory Mode ◽  
Daniel Stern

The concept of shape is widely used by musicians in talking and thinking about performance, yet the mechanisms that afford links between music and shape are little understood. Work on the psychodynamics of everyday life by Daniel Stern and on embodiment by Mark Johnson suggests relationships between the multiple dynamics of musical sound and the dynamics of feeling and motion. Recent work on multisensory and precognitive sensory perception and on the role of bimodal neurons in the sensorimotor system helps to explain how shape, as a percept representing changing quantity in any sensory mode, may be invoked by dynamic processes at many stages of perception and cognition. These processes enable ‘shape’ to do flexible and useful work for musicians needing to describe the quality of musical phenomena that are fundamental to everyday musical practice and yet too complex to calculate during performance.

scholarly journals Research on the Correlation between the Timbre Attributes of Musical Sound and Visual Color

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Jingyu Liu ◽  
Anni Zhao ◽  
Shuang Wang ◽  
Yiyang Li ◽  
Hui Ren
Keyword(s):  
Musical Sound ◽  
Visual Color

Race in Country Music Scholarship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Carter Mather
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Southern Music ◽  
Construction Of Whiteness ◽  
British Culture

This chapter reviews how country music scholarship deals with race. It then suggests how scholarship might move forward toward a more critical stance. While evidence points toward African American innovation at the origins of country, survey histories of country music trace the music’s origins to British culture in Appalachia. Revisionist scholarship attempts to uncover black contributions in most periods of country’s history. Its most common topics are the construction of whiteness by the country music industry and the segregation of southern music in the 1920s into “race” and “hillbilly” marketing categories. This chapter ends by suggesting that country scholarship focus on race as a chief concern of the field, complicate its view of segregation, and give more attention to musical sound.

scholarly journals Sonifying the Shape of Human Body Motion using Motiongrams

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Refsum Jensenius ◽  
Rolf Inge Godøy
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Visual Similarity ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Auditory Displays ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Spatial Shape

<p class="author">The paper presents sonomotiongram, a technique for the creation of auditory displays of human body motion based on motiongrams. A motiongram is a visual display of motion, based on frame differencing and reduction of a regular video recording. The resultant motiongram shows the spatial shape of the motion as it unfolds in time, somewhat similar to the way in which spectrograms visualise the shape of (musical) sound. The visual similarity of motiongrams and spectrograms is the conceptual starting point for the sonomotiongram technique, which explores how motiongrams can be turned into sound using &ldquo;inverse FFT&rdquo;. The paper presents the idea of shape-sonification, gives an overview of the sonomotiongram technique, and discusses sonification examples of both simple and complex human motion.</p>

Dante’s Models in Romantic Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
K.V. Zenkin
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Musical Meaning ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
The World ◽  
Romantic Music ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methodology ◽  
The Given

Dante’s impact on music has been studied completely enough, but so far mainly in an empirical and descriptive way. The article examines the works of romantic composers of the 19th - early 20th centuries, based on the plot of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”: Liszt’s fantasy-sonata “After reading Dante” and the “Dante-Symphony”, the “Francesca da Rimini” by Tchaikovsky (symphonic fantasy) and Rachmaninoff (opera). The author analyses compositional and stylistic models of the romantic music inspired by Dante’s poetry as a system, which is relevant for modern musicology, in particular, for the theories of musical language, style, and musical meaning. Along with the traditional musicological methods of analysis of form and intonational dramaturgy, an interdisciplinary methodology is applied, associated with the coverage of the entire system of musical compositional prototypes as a structuring of meaning. This has a pronounced narrative poetic nature in romantic music. The results of the study demonstrate a system of structural and semantic invariants (secondary, musical models) conditioned by Dante’s figurative world and manifested in melody, harmony, fret organization, composition. The conclusions of the article reveal the roles of Dante’s models of the world in the works considered in the following aspects: in the process of extreme intensification of the contrasts of romantic music in the semantic coordinates of “Hell – Paradise”; “Love – Death”; in the approval of the concept of Liebestod; in the creation of new, extreme expressive possibilities for the given style, which significantly expanded the idea of the boundaries of beauty and caused transformations in musical sound (harmony, texture, melody); in the formation of stable idioms of romantic music from Liszt to Rachmaninov; in the modification of the structures of a one-part sonata, of the cyclic symphony, and of opera, which have received the quality of a vectorial dramaturgical process and open dramaturgy.

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