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Research paper thumbnail of Musical Ability

Novartis Foundation Symposium, Sep 28, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of The reciprocal relationship between jazz musicians and audiences in live performances: A pilot qualitative study

Psychology of Music, Aug 20, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Choosing to hear music

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 18, 2012

A substantial amount of music listening in contemporary Western society is deliberately chosen. T... more A substantial amount of music listening in contemporary Western society is deliberately chosen. This article reviews what is known about the psychology of self-chosen exposure to musical performances of others (recorded or live). The research reviewed is organized by the functional niche that the music is chosen to be part of. Six main niches appear in the literature. These are travel (e.g. driving a car, walking, using public transport); physical work (everyday routines such as washing, cleaning, cooking, and other forms of manual labour); brain work (e.g. private study, reading, writing, and other forms of thinking); body work (e.g. exercise, yoga, relaxation, pain management); emotional work (e.g. mood management, reminiscence, presentation of identity); and attendance at live-music-performance events as an audience member. Within these niches, four recurring functions of self-chosen music use are also identified: distraction, energizing, entrainment, and meaning enhancement.

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Research paper thumbnail of Interdependence of right and left hands in sight-read, written, and rehearsed fingerings of parallel melodic piano music

Australian Journal of Psychology, Dec 1, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Iraq Body Count: a case study in the uses of incident-based conflict casualty data

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Research paper thumbnail of Violent Deaths of Iraqi Civilians, 2003–2008: Analysis by Perpetrator, Weapon, Time, and Location

PLOS Medicine, Feb 15, 2011

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Research paper thumbnail of Death in Baghdad

Conflict Casualties Monitor, Jan 26, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Another year of relentless violence. IBC's 2016 analysis of civilian deaths

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Research paper thumbnail of Iraq in 2019: Calls for a ‘True Homeland’ met with deadly violence

As in earlier years, IBC provides an annual overview of events in Iraq from the key perspective o... more As in earlier years, IBC provides an annual overview of events in Iraq from the key perspective of their deadliness to civilians, this year notably involving violently suppressed, largely youthful mass protests. It is only this perspective that captures and confirms the awful reality that the country has been in a state of war for close to 17 years – and that its youth have known nothing else their entire lives.

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Research paper thumbnail of The audience as artist? The audience’s experience of participatory music

Musicae Scientiae, 2019

This study aimed to uncover potential effects on and meanings experienced by audience members who... more This study aimed to uncover potential effects on and meanings experienced by audience members who participated in performances (‘participants’) of intentional efforts to integrate participatory elements in art music practice. We document a recent project in which two contemporary composers were commissioned to write new pieces including parts for audience participants. We analysed observational and questionnaire data from three concerts that interrogated the experiences of participants at three participatory performances in different countries ( n = 273), and identified key emergent themes from participant responses: special group experience, interactive musical experience, experiencing shifting power relationships as well as an evaluative theme about the consequences of participatory elements. These categories connected substantially to concepts of active/passive, empowerment and community prevalent in discourses about participatory theatre. Quantitative analysis of participants’ r...

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Music Teaching Be a Powerful Tool for Social Justice?

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015

This chapter reflects on how practitioners may differently relate to social justice issues in mus... more This chapter reflects on how practitioners may differently relate to social justice issues in music education according to their personal and professional priorities. The relative merits of micro- and macro-approaches to social justice in music are discussed. It is argued that social justice goals are particularly strongly linked to the development and support of musical cultures that are sustainable beyond specific educational contexts, and that are embedded in the wider society. Music may not always be a very effective means of promoting social justice, as exemplified by the experience of using musical activities for conflict resolution and inter-group reconciliation. For greater understanding, long-term evaluation of social justice outcomes is required, measured by explicit and agreed metrics.

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Research paper thumbnail of Using digital content to build audiences for live opera

This research was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant Number AH/J005142/1]

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Research paper thumbnail of 25 years of ESCOM: Achievements and challenges

Musicae Scientiae, Mar 19, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Opera and Emotion: The Cultural Value of Attendance for the Highly Engaged

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Research paper thumbnail of Early Signs of Talents and Special Interests in the Lives of Young Musicians

European journal for high ability, 1991

... An essay on Nietzsche by Michael Tanner raises the question of why ... In the later chapters,... more ... An essay on Nietzsche by Michael Tanner raises the question of why ... In the later chapters, Christopher Norris considers Paul de Man's explorations into the ... as Howard Gruber, Howard Gardner, Arthur Rothenberg, David Perkins, Augustin Brannigan, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Music performance: Expression and the development of excellence

... Login to save citations to My List. Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Music performanc... more ... Login to save citations to My List. Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Music performance:Expression and the development of excellence. Musical perceptions. Sloboda, John A. Aiello, Rita (Ed); Sloboda, John A. (Ed), (1994). Musical perceptions, (pp. 152-169). ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Combating Examination Stress among University Students: Action Research in an Institutional Context

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, May 1, 1990

167 students completed a questionnaire survey immediately after completing their final examinatio... more 167 students completed a questionnaire survey immediately after completing their final examinations. A significant minority of students reported finding their experiences moderately to highly stressful. Stress levels were related to general psychological states in the whole of the preceding year, particularly anxiety, depression and sleeplessness. Major sources of stress were seen to be work overload, revision difficulties, and uncertainty about examination content and the future. Stress was shown to have a detrimental effect on examination performance. Students employed a variety of coping strategies. Strategies that were widely used and felt to be effective included peer support, taking time off work and away from the institution, and exercise. There is some evidence that these strategies were actually effective in reducing stress, and that the early help of a counsellor increases the repertoire of coping strategies. The principal institutional response urged by respondents was the partial or total dismantling of the final examination system and its replacement with a variety of assessment forms distributed throughout the course. The implications of these findings for the roles of counsellors and other staff are discussed.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cognitive processes in mathematics

Oxford University Press eBooks, 1987

... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Edited Book]. Cognitive processes in mathematics. Keele ... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Edited Book]. Cognitive processes in mathematics. Keele cognition seminars, Vol. 1. Sloboda, John A. (Ed); Rogers, Don (Ed). New York, NY, US: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press. (1987). x, 208 pp. Abstract. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Weapons That Kill Civilians — Deaths of Children and Noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008

The New England Journal of Medicine, Apr 16, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Perception and Cognition of Music

Notes, Dec 1, 1998

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Research paper thumbnail of Musical Ability

Novartis Foundation Symposium, Sep 28, 2007

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Research paper thumbnail of The reciprocal relationship between jazz musicians and audiences in live performances: A pilot qualitative study

Psychology of Music, Aug 20, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Choosing to hear music

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 18, 2012

A substantial amount of music listening in contemporary Western society is deliberately chosen. T... more A substantial amount of music listening in contemporary Western society is deliberately chosen. This article reviews what is known about the psychology of self-chosen exposure to musical performances of others (recorded or live). The research reviewed is organized by the functional niche that the music is chosen to be part of. Six main niches appear in the literature. These are travel (e.g. driving a car, walking, using public transport); physical work (everyday routines such as washing, cleaning, cooking, and other forms of manual labour); brain work (e.g. private study, reading, writing, and other forms of thinking); body work (e.g. exercise, yoga, relaxation, pain management); emotional work (e.g. mood management, reminiscence, presentation of identity); and attendance at live-music-performance events as an audience member. Within these niches, four recurring functions of self-chosen music use are also identified: distraction, energizing, entrainment, and meaning enhancement.

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Research paper thumbnail of Interdependence of right and left hands in sight-read, written, and rehearsed fingerings of parallel melodic piano music

Australian Journal of Psychology, Dec 1, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Iraq Body Count: a case study in the uses of incident-based conflict casualty data

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Research paper thumbnail of Violent Deaths of Iraqi Civilians, 2003–2008: Analysis by Perpetrator, Weapon, Time, and Location

PLOS Medicine, Feb 15, 2011

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Research paper thumbnail of Death in Baghdad

Conflict Casualties Monitor, Jan 26, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Another year of relentless violence. IBC's 2016 analysis of civilian deaths

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Research paper thumbnail of Iraq in 2019: Calls for a ‘True Homeland’ met with deadly violence

As in earlier years, IBC provides an annual overview of events in Iraq from the key perspective o... more As in earlier years, IBC provides an annual overview of events in Iraq from the key perspective of their deadliness to civilians, this year notably involving violently suppressed, largely youthful mass protests. It is only this perspective that captures and confirms the awful reality that the country has been in a state of war for close to 17 years – and that its youth have known nothing else their entire lives.

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Research paper thumbnail of The audience as artist? The audience’s experience of participatory music

Musicae Scientiae, 2019

This study aimed to uncover potential effects on and meanings experienced by audience members who... more This study aimed to uncover potential effects on and meanings experienced by audience members who participated in performances (‘participants’) of intentional efforts to integrate participatory elements in art music practice. We document a recent project in which two contemporary composers were commissioned to write new pieces including parts for audience participants. We analysed observational and questionnaire data from three concerts that interrogated the experiences of participants at three participatory performances in different countries ( n = 273), and identified key emergent themes from participant responses: special group experience, interactive musical experience, experiencing shifting power relationships as well as an evaluative theme about the consequences of participatory elements. These categories connected substantially to concepts of active/passive, empowerment and community prevalent in discourses about participatory theatre. Quantitative analysis of participants’ r...

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Music Teaching Be a Powerful Tool for Social Justice?

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015

This chapter reflects on how practitioners may differently relate to social justice issues in mus... more This chapter reflects on how practitioners may differently relate to social justice issues in music education according to their personal and professional priorities. The relative merits of micro- and macro-approaches to social justice in music are discussed. It is argued that social justice goals are particularly strongly linked to the development and support of musical cultures that are sustainable beyond specific educational contexts, and that are embedded in the wider society. Music may not always be a very effective means of promoting social justice, as exemplified by the experience of using musical activities for conflict resolution and inter-group reconciliation. For greater understanding, long-term evaluation of social justice outcomes is required, measured by explicit and agreed metrics.

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Research paper thumbnail of Using digital content to build audiences for live opera

This research was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant Number AH/J005142/1]

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Research paper thumbnail of 25 years of ESCOM: Achievements and challenges

Musicae Scientiae, Mar 19, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Opera and Emotion: The Cultural Value of Attendance for the Highly Engaged

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Research paper thumbnail of Early Signs of Talents and Special Interests in the Lives of Young Musicians

European journal for high ability, 1991

... An essay on Nietzsche by Michael Tanner raises the question of why ... In the later chapters,... more ... An essay on Nietzsche by Michael Tanner raises the question of why ... In the later chapters, Christopher Norris considers Paul de Man's explorations into the ... as Howard Gruber, Howard Gardner, Arthur Rothenberg, David Perkins, Augustin Brannigan, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Music performance: Expression and the development of excellence

... Login to save citations to My List. Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Music performanc... more ... Login to save citations to My List. Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Chapter]. Music performance:Expression and the development of excellence. Musical perceptions. Sloboda, John A. Aiello, Rita (Ed); Sloboda, John A. (Ed), (1994). Musical perceptions, (pp. 152-169). ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Combating Examination Stress among University Students: Action Research in an Institutional Context

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, May 1, 1990

167 students completed a questionnaire survey immediately after completing their final examinatio... more 167 students completed a questionnaire survey immediately after completing their final examinations. A significant minority of students reported finding their experiences moderately to highly stressful. Stress levels were related to general psychological states in the whole of the preceding year, particularly anxiety, depression and sleeplessness. Major sources of stress were seen to be work overload, revision difficulties, and uncertainty about examination content and the future. Stress was shown to have a detrimental effect on examination performance. Students employed a variety of coping strategies. Strategies that were widely used and felt to be effective included peer support, taking time off work and away from the institution, and exercise. There is some evidence that these strategies were actually effective in reducing stress, and that the early help of a counsellor increases the repertoire of coping strategies. The principal institutional response urged by respondents was the partial or total dismantling of the final examination system and its replacement with a variety of assessment forms distributed throughout the course. The implications of these findings for the roles of counsellors and other staff are discussed.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cognitive processes in mathematics

Oxford University Press eBooks, 1987

... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Edited Book]. Cognitive processes in mathematics. Keele ... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Book; Edited Book]. Cognitive processes in mathematics. Keele cognition seminars, Vol. 1. Sloboda, John A. (Ed); Rogers, Don (Ed). New York, NY, US: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press. (1987). x, 208 pp. Abstract. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Weapons That Kill Civilians — Deaths of Children and Noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008

The New England Journal of Medicine, Apr 16, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Perception and Cognition of Music

Notes, Dec 1, 1998

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