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sj-docx-1-pom-10.1177_03057356221141735 – Supplemental material for Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pom-10.1177_03057356221141735 for Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country by James Renwick and Matthew H. Woolhouse in Psychology of Music</p
Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety – A Tercentenary Celebration
No full textThe summer of 2014 marked the tercentenary of the death of Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissenters and author of the six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1707–1714/25). This monumental work, which by 1855 had already been published in twenty-five different editions, attempted a peculiarly practical approach to the biblical text and continues to be widely used and readily accessible even today in both print and online versions. The theme of foreign (or ‘strange’) wives and Israelite intermarriage is one which occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible and, accordingly, throughout Matthew Henry’s commentary upon it. Where it appears, the practice of intermarriage is characterized by Henry as (at best) unwise and (at worst) a very real threat to both social and religious cohesion. This essay explores how Henry deals with the issue of ‘strange wives’, why he believes they continue to pose a threat, and (in view of the overall intention of his commentary) what ‘practical observations’ he offers to his reader as a result. In doing so it is argued that Henry’s commentary traces a thematic thread from the ante-diluvian age to the post-exilic period of calamities resulting from mixed marriages between ‘professors of religion’ and their ‘strange wives’
Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off To Work We Go: The Influence of Employment Patterns on Music Downloading
No full textThursday, May 23 • 9:00am - 10:30am
Session 1A: Productive Consumers / Consommateurs productifs
1.Eddy Borges-Rey (University of Stirling), Re-imagining online music prosumption: Creative Appropriations and Music Imagery.
2.Yannick Lapointe (Université Laval),
Le travail créatif de l'auditeur : le cas de la scène haute-fidélité.
3. Matthew Woolhouse (McMaster University), Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off To Work We Go: The Influence of Employment Patterns on Music Downloading.
Chair / Président: William Echar
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
No full textWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Memory for temporally nonadjacent tonal centers mediated by musically salient features
No full textResearch on memory often describes the remarkable longevity of music. However, memory for music is not uniform. Cook (1987) found that participants were not able to tell apart excerpts that modulated from those that did not when the excerpt was longer than 1 minute in length. This suggests that participants were no longer able to remember, and compare, musical keys after a relatively short period of time. Farbood (2016) and Woolhouse et al. (2016) further explored the limitations of memory for tonal structures finding that, in fact, harmonic memory only lasts up to 21 seconds after modulation. However, this research was done using homophonic stimuli—arpeggios or quarter-note chords—that may not be representative of the music participants would be listening to regularly. The focus of this project was to explore how the addition of certain musical features, such as melodic or rhythmic figurations, may influence harmonic memory. Observing these possible influences may provide us with insight into the processes responsible for auditory memory and how it differs from other domains, such as speech or vision. Chapter 1 explores prominent memory literature and music cognition experiments that support, or address concerns with, common memory models. Here, I introduce a cognitive system which reconciles music research with models by memory specialists such as Baddeley and Snyder. Chapter 2 presents a detailed account of background empirical literature, including Farbood (2016) and Woolhouse et al. (2016). Though fundamental to the exploration of temporally nonadjacent harmonic memory, this research is potentially limited in its generalizability due to the homophonic nature of the stimuli. Chapter 3 explores this limitation by testing the effects of adding surface features—melodic and rhythmic components often used for elaboration in composition—on memory for large-scale tonal structures. Results found that harmonic memory is, indeed, enhanced and prolonged by these elaborative components, lasting up to 33 seconds, well past the limit found in previous research. Farbood (2016) further claimed that harmonic memory is significantly interrupted by new, highly harmonic excerpts. However, results from Woolhouse et al. (2016), Spyra et al. (2021) and those from Chapter 3 all question this claim as they employed stimuli that was highly harmonic. Chapter 4 investigates the contradiction by testing whether functional diatonic, functional chromatic, or random sequences degraded harmonic memory for an original key. Functional diatonic intervening information resulted in increased harmonic memory, directly contradicting Farbood’s original findings. In Chapter 5, these results are explored in terms of prominent memory models in the field of cognition, supporting standard models of memory such as that by Baddeley and Hitch (1974) or Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968), as well as my proposed cognitive system. This is further elaborated by discussing the process of undergoing a musical judgement task from perception through to decision-making. In summary, this project suggests that more generalizable stimuli containing realistic musical features produce a significant boost in harmonic memory. Furthermore, this arguably calls into question standard practices in analysis that categorize surface features as hierarchically less important than ’deeper’ harmonic events, and thus, potentially less important from a cognitive perspective. Which is to say, this evidence suggests that these features may play a vital role in remembering nonadjacent harmonic
structures.DissertationDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)Memory for music is often celebrated for its longevity. Music is a complex stimulus, however, and not all of its characteristics are remembered equally well. Past research has found that participants were not able to remember musical keys after a surprisingly short period of time: Farbood (2016) and Woolhouse et al. (2016) found that harmonic memory—i.e., memory for a key—lasts up to 21 seconds after a key change. Compared to nursery rhymes remembered from childhood bedtimes, this is remarkably limited. Yet this research did not fully explore which musical characteristics affect harmonic memory as it was done using simple musical stimuli: compositions made of blocks of chords. Whereas a string of chords might sound pleasant, it may not be representative of the type of music that people listen to regularly (with complex melodies and instrumentation). The focus of this project was to explore musical factors, such as melodies or rhythms, and measure how they interact with musical memory. Observing specific aspects of the stimulus gives us a window into the complexities of human memory, particularly that of the auditory domain.
Chapter 1 provides an overview of memory literature with a focus on common memory models and the musical research that supports them or contributes to their development. Here, I propose a cognitive system which integrates prominent models that otherwise describe different stages of processing complex auditory stimuli. Chapter 2 presents a detailed account of background empirical literature. This provides a basis for a series of experiments outlined in Chapters 3 and 4. These experiments investigate how components of music influence harmonic memory. Components include Surface Features, or ornamentations in music such as melodies or rhythms, and Harmony, the structure of the key itself which can make an excerpt sound more, or less, familiar. Results suggest that memory is significantly enhanced and prolonged by the addition of surface features. Furthermore, harmony that most resembles culturally familiar compositional practices also provides a memory boost when compared to random or somewhat ambiguous sequences. In Chapter 5, the implications of these results are explored with regards to the general memory models discussed in Chapter 1. Results support standard models of memory and my proposed cognitive system, as demonstrated by following the processing of my experimental musical stimuli from sound to executive function. This project suggests that more complex and musically realistic stimuli produce a significant memory boost. This puts into question traditional practices in music analysis which separate surface features into hierarchically less important positions when, in fact, the musical surface may be vital to our processing of auditory stimuli
An Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play
No full textAn Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play, by Sean Scanlan. Matthew Kaiser, the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2012) says that “[c]ompetition is the disease from which modern life suffers,” and that “[c]ompetition is the only cure” for this suffering. This contradictory pairing seems to get at the heart of his thesis: play, as a totalizing, umbrella-like concept, emanates from a host of philosophical, political, and scientific work produced by Victorians who posed many of their ideas of play in sports metaphors, competitive logics, and narratives of struggle. Kaiser goes beyond the dichotomy of competition and play/competition or play, by stating “I’m interested in the totalizing potential of both concepts, the way that play, or competition for that matter, swallows the world whole, becomes in the minds of so many people, the organizing principle of reality, whether of culture or nature or consciousness, or of all three.
Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Matthew Goldman, Class of 2022
No full textThe Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Matthew Goldman discusses his Note, Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, which was published in Volume 40, Issue 3.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 7, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
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Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Matthew Goldman, Class of 2022
No full textThe Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Matthew Goldman discusses his Note, Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, which was published in Volume 40, Issue 3.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 7, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Matthew Goldman, Class of 2022
No full textThe Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Matthew Goldman discusses his Note, Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, which was published in Volume 40, Issue 3.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 7, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
Matthew and Mark
No full textThe author of the Gospel of Matthew was arguably the very first Christian seeking to rejudaize Jesus of Nazareth. Throughout two millennia, and undeniably most intensively during the last half-century, many students of the Bible have followed in his footsteps. Although he was successful in many respects, we must not forget who paid the price for his endeavour: the Pharisees, the proto-Rabbis and the Founding Fathers of those we know as the Jewish people, those whom Jesus knew as his own
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