WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET: LIGETI AND ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC by Bianca Ţiplea TEMEŞ

“…The study will therefore show that Ligeti’s interest in this went far beyond composition, comprising transcriptions of Romanian folk music (during his stay at the Folk Music Institute in Bucharest, in 1949-1950) and also broad theoretical approaches, later published in Budapest. …”
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AI Composers and Cyborg Performers: More-than-human Creativity in Music by Trump Sebastian

“…It discusses theoretical frameworks by Margret Boden, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour, presenting AI not just as a tool, but as an active creative participant. …”
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ACADEMIC MUSIC MINISTRY TRAINING FROM A PRACTICAL-THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE by J. Schröder

“…Approaching the training from a theological perspective requires an intentional integration of theory into ministry and music practice. Borrowing from interpretative methods of practical theology, recent developments of music ministry and training are described and analysed. …”
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Global Perspectives on Addressing Systemic Issues in Music Therapy Curricula and Healthcare by Amy Clements-Cortés, Melissa Mercadal-Brotons, Hakeem Leonard, Vivian Chan, Gro Trondalen, Tao-Deva Stingl, Thomas Stegemann, Claudia Zanini

“…As such, there is a need to reflect on the differences between education and training programs, which vary according to the local culture, educational needs, theoretical background, and scope, among others. Music  therapists work in a variety of environments including hospitals, community centres, regular or special education schools, speciality clinics, private practice, and long-term care homes, etc. …”
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Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors by A.M. Coates, J. Kunnuji

“…We discuss the experience of music and musical metaphors as a lens through which to explore this relationship between lived experience and an explicit theology of conviviality. …”
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The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community by Sahitya Rajagopal, Alex Street, Stephen W. Philip

“…The communication, relationship, and trust-building with the client and her granddaughter, together with the intern joining the dynamic, paved the way for assimilating music therapy theoretical models that were new to them, and adapting neurologic music therapy approaches using an electronic keyboard that incorporated preferred facilitating music. …”
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Utilidad de la música en la preparación psicólogica de los deportistas / Usefulness of Music in the Psychological Preparation of Athletes by Francisco Enrique García-Ucha, Leopoldo Ferrer-Maldonado

“…Additionally, they suggest that a theoretical model is required to resolve the contradictions in music use trends in sports. …”
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Wellbeing for young elite musicians: development of a health protocol from a student perspective by Ann Shoebridge, Margaret S. Osborne, Margaret S. Osborne

“…Musicians’ vulnerability to psychological and physical problems provides a compelling argument to include health and wellbeing training in music education. This study forms part of a larger project to design an evidence-based wellbeing protocol for young elite musicians at a pre-professional music training institute. …”
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AJAGBO: A TRADO-MUSICOLOGICAL DIMENSION TO CONFLICT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNIG AMONG THE AKOKO SPEAKING PEOPLE OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA by Usman Umar Jimoh, Bolanle Wahab

“…Mass emigration of youths and introduction of modern musical instruments that is shifting people' attention from the contents of the music are the main challenges of Ajagbo music. …”
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DIE REFORMIERTE BEERDIGUNGSLIEDER UND - BRÄUCHE DES GEBIETES AM BACH NÁDAS by Miklós-Csaba GYÖRGYJAKAB

“…The paper follows a theoretical and a practical thread. In the theoretical part I examined the funeral song-material of old Hungarian song collections, while the practical part describes my visits to a number of villages with significant folk traditions, inhabited by Hungarians, where I collected and summarized the musical traditions associated with funerals. …”
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LA FRUSTRATION IDENTITAIRE. QUELQUES IDÉES DE MIHAI MITREA-CELARIANU SUR L’ÉCOLE ROUMAINE DE COMPOSITION by Luana STAN

“…Born in Bucarest in 1935, after the arrival of the communist regime, he was forced to leave the country and he installed himself in Paris, where he died in 2003. His way of writing music was largely influenced by the modern western music, the New Cinema and the New Novel (Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alain Resnais), the serialism, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the dreams theory. …”
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Crimson Tide: Hans Zimmer, Subliminal Harmony, and Submerged Voices by Donald Greig

“…Using Neo-Riemannian theory, the potential contribution of which to film-music studies is still only now beginning to be explored, I examine the deployment of specific harmonic strategies that create a link back to earlier Hollywood film-music practices and show how Zimmer represents less an evolution than a continuation of recognisable styles and idioms. …”
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TEXTURALISM by Andrei C. COZMA

“…A delimitation of a notion that includes such a diversity of compositional methods into a stylistic unity still tapped into by composers is achieved by analysing some particular characteristics of a few textural pieces and other attributes that are common to various other pieces. The suggested theory of texturalism thus systemizes an important part of the 20th century music in which compositional techniques of other style defining musical practices are grouped together with singular technical features. …”
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“L’OPERA SERIA” ET SES RÉFORMES by Diana TODEA

“…This reform, which was first of all a literary one led to the development of opera seria; half a century later, when one would focus again on the innovations of the genre there will be a second reform, this time more than dramatic since it will have solid musical and theoretical foundations. [1] «L’opéra ne constituait que un branche sur un tronc solide de la littérature dramatique», in Isabelle Moindrot, L’opéra seria ou le règne des castrats [Opera seria or the reign of the castrati],.Paris, Fayard,1993, p. 21. …”
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Making Dementia Matter Through Sound by Marjolein Gysels, Chris Tonelli, Thomas Johannsen

“…This specific practice appears as an untapped resource for the health and wellbeing of people with cognitive and speech impairments. Theoretically, the findings have implications for the notion of care and provide support from practice to existing neurological evidence of the significance of music as a fundamental faculty for survival and wellbeing. …”
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Sztuka mała czy wielka? Refleksje nad twórczością dziecka by Małgorzata Suświłło

“…This paper primarily aims to present, both theoretically and empirically, the art of children at the early education stage. …”
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Singend is die geloof in sy element ... Gemeentesang as kommunikatiewe handeling by E. C. Kloppers

“…In this article it is argued that in many ways music has the qualities of a symbolic or metaphorical language. …”
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FORMAL STRUCTURE AND POLYPHONIC TECHNIQUE IN ZOLTÁN KODÁLY’S “SEVEN EASY CHORAL PIECES FOR CHILDREN" by Gabriela COCA

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Joyful Encounters: Learning to Play Well with Machines by Sandry Eleanor, Peaty Gwyneth

“…Although human– machine interaction can be theorized as ‘cyborg’ or ‘hybrid’, this paper argues that adopting the idea of the ‘assemblage’ is a better way recognize the flexibility of bringing disparate humans and machines together, whether in relation to playing a game or playing music. …”
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