Academic literature on the topic 'X (musical group)'

Theme therapy is a new technique to prescribe art works, special musical peaces, which during several researches, were found three therapeutic musical themes: Relaxation Themes (Cognitive Themes), Mood-Making Themes (Emotional Themes) and Somatization Themes (Body Themes) (Joharifard, 2009).In this investigation, were studied the effect of therapeutic musical themes and their presentation techniques (active and passive) on reducing anxiety.96 students, were chose randomly from 386 anxious students, assigned to 8 groups (6 experimental groups and 2 control groups), and each group was measured two times, before investigation (as pretest) and after investigation (as posttest) during 6 weeks.Data were calculated by description and deductive statistics, such as ANOVA and post-hoc tests. The findings suggested that, the relaxation theme with relaxation technique has been most effect on reducing anxiety. Also the effect of active presentation is more than the effect of passive music therapy on reducing anxiety.

John Coltrane; one of the most influential and important musicians and composers of the 20th century; began to inspire jazz musicians and American poets in the 1960s with the Black Arts Movement poets. His music was interpreted and used for the promotion of political ideas in the poetics of Amiri Baraka; Sonia Sanchez; Askia Muhammad Toure; Larry Neal and others. This is the political Coltrane poetry. On the other hand; Coltrane’s music inspired another kind of poets; the musical poets; which began to emerge in the 1970s. In this case; the poetry reflects the true nature of Coltrane’s spiritual music quest. The poets belonging to this group; like Michael S. Harper; William Matthews; Jean Valentine; Cornelius Eady; Philip Levine; Nathaniel Mackey and others; go beyond politics; beyond race or gender. The paper will examine the first type of the Coltrane poetry; where Coltrane’s music was used to promote the political ideas of the Black Art Movement in connection with the political movement of Malcolm X. These poets changed; rearticulated and shifted Coltrane’s spiritually musical message towards the principles of the black nationalism.

This study experimentally tests the effects of in-store background music on the shopping behavior of its customers. Field experiments employ pre-experiment the one group pretest-posttest. The researcher chooses a kind of musics tempo and volume as structural characteristics (2 x 2 factorial experiment). The analysis technique used is the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results of the analysis found that tempo and volume of music did not play a significant role in the amount of money spent, but influence significantly on shopping time and mood change. The research answered urgency for designing the musical environment in the retail stores to influence shopping experience and consumer responses, especially for a small store (minimarket).

As one of the social problems, schizophrenia has been noticed by theIndonesian government through Social Department. The constant increasing number of schizophrenics in Jakarta induces limitation of anti-psychotic drugs use in social institutions related to issues of financial support. Although the positive symptoms of the Schizophrenics can only be handled with pharmacotherapy, schizophrenic’s well-being have the chance to be improved by reducing the negative symptoms. The use of creative therapies such as music therapy as a clinical intervention are potential to reduce negative symptoms in individual or group settings. Music therapy can be applied in a passive way, such as listening to music, and active way, which is singing and playing musical instruments. Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was used to evaluate the negative symptoms of the participants. Systematic approach on learning to sing was implemented as the therapeutic approach on the participants. The sessions were conducted as many as 8 Sessions. The result indicates that music therapy by the way of singing can reduce the negative symptoms of the schizophrenic patients.Keywords: schizophrenia, negative symptoms, music therapy, positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS).

Promoção intercultural de quíchua entre crianças migrantes de língua quéchua e crianças da cidade no Peru Estudamos os efeitos da promoção da interculturalidade como abordagem musical pedagógica na diversidade linguística oral quéchua no início da escolaridade. Para este fim, desenvolvemos o tipo de desenho abordagem quantitativa quasi-experimental ao fim propomos o agrupamento de alunos da segunda série do ensino regular básica (grupo experimental (alto-falantes de quíchua) = 27; grupo controle (urbanos) = 26) - (X (média) = 7,6, DP (Desvio padrão) = 1,2), que concordaram em desenvolver sua diversidade intercultural através da técnica de troca de estudantes. Elaboramos um teste de múltipla execução da diversidade linguística oral (ad hoc) para a coleta de dados. Os resultados mostram que o método de pedagogia intercultural se desenvolveu através da estratégia de intercâmbio escolar: a) diversidade linguística em crianças falantes de quíchua, b) crenças e valorização em crianças da cidade; no entanto, os falantes de quéchua apreciavam muito mais suas origens andinas. Na aprendizagem da língua quéchua não houve diferenças entre os grupos, portanto o programa não teve efeitos devido às limitações temporais e curriculares. Finalmente, os falantes de quíchua conseguiram expressar significados culturais através do quíchua, graças ao ambiente intercultural desenvolvido pelo experimento de intercâmbio. Palavras-chave: Interculturalidade, Diversidade Linguística, Língua Quechua, Intercâmbio Escolar, Promoção Cultural. Fomento intercultural del quechua entre niños migrantes quechua hablantes y niños citadinos en Perú RESUMEN. Estudiamos los efectos del fomento de la interculturalidad como enfoque pedagógico musical en la diversidad lingüística oral quechua en los inicios de escolaridad. Para este fin, desarrollamos el tipo de diseño cuasi experimental de enfoque cuantitativo, planteamos la agrupación de estudiantes de segundo grado de educación básica regular (grupo experimental (quechua hablantes) = 27; grupo control (citadinos) = 26) – (X (promedio) = 7,6; D.E. (desviación estándar) = 1,2), los cuales aceptaron desarrollar su diversidad intercultural mediante la técnica del intercambio estudiantil. Elaboramos una prueba de ejecución múltiple de diversidad lingüística oral (ad hoc) para el recojo de datos. Los resultados demuestran que el método de pedagogía intercultural desarrolló mediante estrategia de intercambio escolar: a) la diversidad lingüística en niños quechua hablantes, b) creencias y valoración en niños citadinos; sin embargo, los sujetos quechua hablantes apreciaron mucho más sus orígenes alto andinos. En el aprendizaje de la lengua quechua no se evidenciaron diferencias entre grupos, por lo que el programa no surtió efectos debido a limitaciones temporales y curriculares. Finalmente, los sujetos quechua hablantes lograron expresar significados culturales a través del quechua, gracias al entorno intercultural desarrollado por el experimento de intercambio. Palabras clave: Interculturalidad, Diversidad Lingüística, Lengua Quechua, Intercambio Escolar, Fomento Cultural. Intercultural promotion of quechua among quechua-speaking migrant children and city children in Peru ABSTRACT. We study the effects of the promotion of interculturality as a pedagogical musical approach in Quechua oral linguistic diversity at the beginning of schooling. For this purpose, we developed the quasi-experimental type of quantitative approach design, we proposed the grouping of second grade students of regular basic education (experimental group (quechua speakers) = 27, control group (city dwellers) = 26) - (X (average) = 7.6, SD (standard deviation) = 1.2), who agreed to develop their intercultural diversity through the technique of student exchange. We elaborated a test of multiple execution of oral linguistic diversity (ad hoc) for the data collection. The results show that the method of intercultural pedagogy developed through school exchange strategy: a) linguistic diversity in quechua-speaking children, b) beliefs and valuation in city children; however, quechua speakers appreciated their high Andean origins much more. In the learning of the quechua language there were no differences between groups, so the program did not have effects due to temporal and curricular limitations. Finally, the quechua speakers managed to express cultural meanings through quechua, thanks to the intercultural environment developed by the exchange experiment. Keywords: Interculturality, Linguistic Diversity, Quechua Language, School Exchange, Cultural Promotion.

In a piano sight-reading (SR) experiment, 27 undergraduate students had their SR measured. It tested the hypothesis that transposition (control group) would be a pedagogical intervention better than rhythmic training and the use of four-handed repertoire (two experimental groups). The individual errors were collected from three tests in three difficulty levels (27 students x 3 tests x 3 levels), generating a total of 243 observations. Although students improved their performance by 30%, none of the pedagogical interventions had any significant effect (p=0.96). The results were: a) practicing reading in the bass clef, the rhythmic aspects more than the melodic ones, and the left hand more than the right one, brings more benefits to the piano SR performance; b) isolated SR strategies has little effect on students development; c) using a hybrid curriculum matrix with three or more significant predictors seems to be the most appropriate way to develop a SR competency.

Many studies have shown a link between being competent in early mathematics and achievement in school. Early math skills have the potential to be the best predictors of later performance in reading and mathematics. Movement and songs are activities that children like, making it easier for teachers to apply mathematical concepts through this method. This study aims to develop audio-visual learning media in the form of songs with a mixture of western and traditional musical idioms, accompanied by movements that represent some of the teaching of early mathematics concepts. The stages of developing the ADDIE model are the basis for launching new learning media products related to math and art, and also planting the nation's cultural arts from an early age. These instructional media products were analyzed by experts and tested for their effectiveness through experiments on five children aged 3-4 years. The qualitative data were analyzed using transcripts of field notes and observations and interpreted in a descriptive narrative. The quantitative data were analyzed using gain score statistics. The results showed that there was a significant increase in value for early mathematical understanding of the concepts of geometry, numbers and measurement through this learning medium. The results of the effectiveness test become the final basis of reference for revision and complement the shortcomings of this learning medium. Further research can be carried out to develop other mathematical concepts through motion and song learning media, and to create experiments with a wider sample. Keywords: Early Mathematical Skills, Movement and Song Idiom Traditional, Audio-visual Learning Media References An, S. A., & Tillman, D. A. (2015). Music activities as a meaningful context for teaching elementary students mathematics: a quasi-experiment time series design with random assigned control group. 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AbstractOur sensory systems provide complementary information about the multimodal objects and events that are the target of perception in everyday life. Professional musicians’ specialization in the auditory domain is reflected in the morphology of their brains, which has distinctive characteristics, particularly in areas related to auditory and audio-motor activity. Here, we combined diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with a behavioral measure of visually induced gain in pitch discrimination, and we used measures of cortical thickness (CT) correlations to assess how auditory specialization and musical expertise are reflected in the structural architecture of white and grey matter relevant to audiovisual processing. Across all participants (n = 45), we found a correlation (p < 0.001) between reliance on visual cues in pitch discrimination and the fractional anisotropy (FA) in the left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), a structure connecting visual and auditory brain areas. Group analyses also revealed greater cortical thickness correlation between visual and auditory areas in non-musicians (n = 28) compared to musicians (n = 17), possibly reflecting musicians’ auditory specialization (FDR < 10%). Our results corroborate and expand current knowledge of functional specialization with a specific focus on audition, and highlight the fact that perception is essentially multimodal while uni-sensory processing is a specialized task.

We present multiple approaches to soccer sonification, focusing on enhancing the experience for a general audience. For this work, we developed our own soccer data set through computer vision analysis of footage from a tactical overhead camera. This data set included X, Y, coordinates for the ball and players throughout, as well as passes, steals and goals. After a divergent creation process, we developed four main methods of sports sonification for entertainment. For the Tempo Variation and Pitch Variation methods, tempo or pitch is operationalized to demonstrate ball and player movement data. The Key Moments method features only pass, steal and goal data, while the Musical Moments method takes ex-isting music and attempts to align the track with important data points. Evaluation was done using a combination of qualitative focus groups and quantitative surveys, with 36 participants completing hour long sessions. Results indicated an overall preference for the Pitch Variation and Musical Moments methods, and revealed a robust trade-off between usability and enjoyability.

The research was implemented within the framework of the University of Latvia master’s study program “Pedagogy” course “Effective classroom management”. During the action research, the researchers identified group management problems in music lessons at educational institution X, in group Y. Key problem identified was the insufficient attention of children at the beginning of the lesson. The research proceeded to also look for possible solutions. The aim is to analyse current methods of delivering effective music classes in a pre-school setting, and propose and validate new strategies to improve the beginning of a music lesson. The study involved 17 preschool children (11 boys and 6 girls), a music teacher, and two group teachers, and an observer. The study was conducted from October 2019 to March 2020. The first results of the action research show that as the teacher changed her classroom activities, introduced certain group management techniques, such as signalling and acoustic counting, and repeating these as a routine activity in each lesson, children’s attention improved significantly at the beginning of the music lesson and became more sustained.