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"Learning to Listen: A Beginning Guide for Vocal Coaches"
Full text linkFor any pianist, working with singers can be confusing due to the terminology they use, a sort of “vocal vortex.” Currently, there does not exist a compact, elementary guide for those working with singers. Knowledge of the terms and their applications expands as pianists listen to vocal music professionals. Through this knowledge, we can start to explore the field of vocal coaching. This author researched many of the available resources on vocal coaching and posed a goal of writing the type of guide that they desired was available when starting in this field. “Learning to Listen” is the result of this goal.
Pianists who want to coach singers can learn how to listen in three areas: score accuracy, diction, and legato. For each, there are common inconsistencies for anyone who is singing. In “Learning to Listen,” some of the situations and solutions for solving them are presented. The wording used is specific because we want to offer clear feedback for singers, as we are an extension of their ears. Each of these solutions have consistently helped singers, in this author’s experience and those of other vocal coaches. The study of vocal coaching keeps growing and this author hopes that “Learning to Listen” serves as the starting point for your journey. </p
"Learning to Listen: A Beginning Guide for Vocal Coaches"
Full text linkFor any pianist, working with singers can be confusing due to the terminology they use, a sort of “vocal vortex.” Currently, there does not exist a compact, elementary guide for those working with singers. Knowledge of the terms and their applications expands as pianists listen to vocal music professionals. Through this knowledge, we can start to explore the field of vocal coaching. This author researched many of the available resources on vocal coaching and posed a goal of writing the type of guide that they desired was available when starting in this field. “Learning to Listen” is the result of this goal.
Pianists who want to coach singers can learn how to listen in three areas: score accuracy, diction, and legato. For each, there are common inconsistencies for anyone who is singing. In “Learning to Listen,” some of the situations and solutions for solving them are presented. The wording used is specific because we want to offer clear feedback for singers, as we are an extension of their ears. Each of these solutions have consistently helped singers, in this author’s experience and those of other vocal coaches. The study of vocal coaching keeps growing and this author hopes that “Learning to Listen” serves as the starting point for your journey. </p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Technology and Humanity: An Analysis of Songs for Digital Natives"
Full text linkIn 2017, Jonas Fisher and Michael Thompson added to the ever-growing genre of the song cycle with the work Songs for Digital Natives. Written in traditional Western classical notation with influences from twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers, their work may appear standard, nondescript, and inferior to other song cycles like La bonne chanson, Dichterliebe, or Die schöne Müllerin; perhaps, on basic of music alone, this song cycle would be overlooked. However, the subject matter of Fisher and Thompson’s work stands as unique. The poetry of all six songs comments on technology and reflects on how this has changed our world. Before this song cycle, there were no works that considered humanity and technology in this way. Certainly, the use of technology to create music was, and still is, common; but for two composers who grew up in the Digital Age to create a work challenging our perception of the benefits of technology deserves further research.
This paper will present an analysis of Songs for Digital Natives. To begin, the background of the work will be discussed, who the poets and composers are, and what trends are seen in song cycles written after 2000. This gives the reader an idea of what influenced the writing of this work. Then motives and musical characteristics are pointed out, detailing what aspect of technology they represent or emotion they evoke. Examples are shown how the songs connect musically, demonstrating the effectiveness of this work as a cycle rather than as a set of unrelated songs. The author then presents some conclusions on how this work subtly represents the effect of technology on humanity and how we should try to keep human connection.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
"Technology and Humanity: An Analysis of Songs for Digital Natives"
Full text linkIn 2017, Jonas Fisher and Michael Thompson added to the ever-growing genre of the song cycle with the work Songs for Digital Natives. Written in traditional Western classical notation with influences from twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers, their work may appear standard, nondescript, and inferior to other song cycles like La bonne chanson, Dichterliebe, or Die schöne Müllerin; perhaps, on basic of music alone, this song cycle would be overlooked. However, the subject matter of Fisher and Thompson’s work stands as unique. The poetry of all six songs comments on technology and reflects on how this has changed our world. Before this song cycle, there were no works that considered humanity and technology in this way. Certainly, the use of technology to create music was, and still is, common; but for two composers who grew up in the Digital Age to create a work challenging our perception of the benefits of technology deserves further research.
This paper will present an analysis of Songs for Digital Natives. To begin, the background of the work will be discussed, who the poets and composers are, and what trends are seen in song cycles written after 2000. This gives the reader an idea of what influenced the writing of this work. Then motives and musical characteristics are pointed out, detailing what aspect of technology they represent or emotion they evoke. Examples are shown how the songs connect musically, demonstrating the effectiveness of this work as a cycle rather than as a set of unrelated songs. The author then presents some conclusions on how this work subtly represents the effect of technology on humanity and how we should try to keep human connection.</p
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