Archive for November, 2007
November 28th, 2007 14:11:29
Music perception.
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Music perception.
Front Biosci. 2007;12:4473-82
Authors: Deutsch D
This chapter explores the relationship between music perception as it is studied in the laboratory and as it occurs in the real world. We first examine general principles by which listeners group musical tones into perceptual configurations, and how these principles are implemented in music composition and performance. We then show that, for certain types of configuration, the music as it is perceived can differ substantially from the music that is notated in the score, or as might be imagined from reading the score. Furthermore, there are striking differences between listeners in the perception of certain musical passages. Implications of these findings are discussed.
PMID: 17485389 [PubMed - in process]
November 28th, 2007 1:11:44
Predictive utility of the Computer-based Music Perception Assessment for Children (CMPAC).
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Predictive utility of the Computer-based Music Perception Assessment for Children (CMPAC).
J Music Ther. 2006;43(4):356-71
Authors: Waldon EG, Wolfe DE
A Computer-based Music Perception Assessment for Children (CMPAC) was designed and administered to 49 children (31 elementary school children; 18 hospitalized children) for the purpose of field testing and standardization. CMPAC is conceptualized as an assessment tool that yields information important to music therapists regarding children’s listening and musically-related behavior: These behaviors include information on music choices and the effect of music on behavior (e.g., spontaneous singing or movement). The assessment involves children “clicking on” pictures that represent genres of children’s music and listening to brief musical excerpts. Musical genres on CMPAC included songs from Sesame Street, the Animaniacs, Hap Palmer, Barney, and Disney. As part of the assessment, CMPAC generates three types of data about a child’s listening behaviors: (a) the frequency with which the child listens to specific songs; (b) the duration of time the child spends listening to music; and (c) the order (or chronology) in which the child listens to specific songs. Additionally, the music therapist administering CMPAC records descriptive observations of the child’s listening behavior (e.g., the child sings along to the music, the child moves during music listening, the child appears easily distracted by noises/activities in the hall, the child indiscriminately clicks [or repeatedly clicks] on a picture of music without attending to the music, etc.). Data obtained from field testing and from the clinical dispositions of 10 music therapists examining data output was subjected to statistical analysis in order to determine the predictive utility of CMPAC. Results suggest that CMPAC is a useful and valid assessment for assisting music therapists in making referral decisions for hospitalized children.
PMID: 17348760 [PubMed - in process]
November 21st, 2007 1:11:52
Music, madness and the body: symptom and cure.
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Music, madness and the body: symptom and cure.
Hist Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;17(65 Pt 1):9-21
Authors: MacKinnon D
Building on Sander L. Gilman’s exemplary work on images of madness and the body, this article examines images of music, madness and the body by discussing the persistent cultural beliefs stemming from Classical Antiquity that underpin music as medicinal. These images reflect the body engaged in therapeutic musical activities, as well as musical sounds forming part of the evidence of the mental diagnostic state of a patient in case records. The historiography of music as medicinal has been overlooked in the history of psychiatry. This article provides a brief background to the cultural beliefs that underlie examples of music as both symptom and cure in 19th- and 20th-century asylum records in Australia, Britain, Europe and North America.
PMID: 17153471 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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