El género que se escribe en la cultura popular

Este libro surge del interés por explorar un ámbito, el de la cultura popular, que en su misma definición entraña un componente ideológico, pues parece que se delimite exclusivamente por oposición a la «alta cultura». Esta estructuración dicotómica de la producción cultural se ha convertido en el eje sobre el que pivotan otras oposicionesduales, como las que conciernen a la calidad vs. la falta de calidad, al conservadurismo vs. el carácter subversivo, el valorestético vs. su potencialidad política, el consumo formado y elitista vs. el consumo masivo al que no se le supone criterio estético, la prevalencia de soportes o formatos «convencionales» vs. formatosalternativos o desarrollados con las tecnologías actuales…

The Arts (Music, Arts&Crafts and Drama) as a procedure for learning pre-school content: Grupo Edebé Project

There is nothing as amazing and fascinating as children learning process. Between 0 and 6 years old, a child brain develops in a waythat will never be repeated. At this age, children are eager to discover and they have great potential of active and affective life.Because of this, their learning capacity in this period is incalculable. (Jordan-Decarbo y Nelson, 2002; Wild, 1999).Pre-school Education is a unique and special stage, with self identity, which aims are:attending children as a whole,motivate them to learn,give them an affective and stable environment in which they can grow up and get to be balanced and confident people and inwhich they can relate to others, learn, enjoy and be happy.Arts, Music, Visual Arts and Drama (Gardner, 1994) can provide a framework of special, even unique, personal expression.With the aim of introducing qualitative improvements in the education of children and to ensure their emotional wellbeing, and havingnoticed that teachers had important needs and concerns as regards to diversity in their student groups, we developed a programbased on the detection of needs and concerns explained by professionals in education.This program of Grupo edebé, object of our research, is a multicultural, interdisciplinary and globalizing project the aims of which are:developing children's talent and personality,keeping their imagination and creativity and using these as a learning resource,promoting reasoning, favouring expression and communication,providing children with the tools to manage their emotions,and especially, introducing Arts as a procedure to increase learning.We wanted to start the research by studying the impact (Brice, 2003) that this last point had on the learning of five-year-old childrenschooled in multicultural environments.Therefore, the main goal of the research was the assessment of the implementation of a child education programme attending todiversity in a population of five-year-old children, specifically in the practice of procedures based on the use of Arts (music, arts andcrafts and theatre) as a vehicle or procedure for learning contents in Pre-school stage.Because children emotional welfare was a subject of our concern, and bearing in mind that the affective aspects are of vitalimportance for learning and child development (Parke and Gauvain, 2009), Grupo Edebé has also evaluated the starting, evolving andfinal impact in five-year-old children given that they finish Pre-school education at that age.

El género que se escribe en la cultura popular

Este libro surge del interés por explorar un ámbito, el de la cultura popular, que en su misma definición entraña un componente ideológico, pues parece que se delimite exclusivamente por oposición a la «alta cultura». Esta estructuración dicotómica de la producción cultural se ha convertido en el eje sobre el que pivotan otras oposicionesduales, como las que conciernen a la calidad vs. la falta de calidad, al conservadurismo vs. el carácter subversivo, el valorestético vs. su potencialidad política, el consumo formado y elitista vs. el consumo masivo al que no se le supone criterio estético, la prevalencia de soportes o formatos «convencionales» vs. formatosalternativos o desarrollados con las tecnologías actuales…

Anàlisi comparativa d'accessibilitat i UX d'iTunes, Google Music i Amazon Cloud Player

Aquest treball final de carrera consisteix en la realització d'un estudi de la usabilitat i accessibilitat de tres gestors de medis multimèdia: iTunes, Google Music i Amazon Cloud Player. A través d'observacions contextuals, avaluacions heurístiques i tests d'usuaris he realitzat una anàlisi comparativa. Per tal d'esquematitzar tota aquesta informació he confeccionat una taula amb els punts forts i punts febles de cada aplicació per concloure amb la proposta de millores per a cada un dels gestors de medis.

A knowledge based signal processing approach to tonic identification in indian classical music

In this paper, we describe several techniques for detecting tonic pitch value in Indian classical music. In Indian music, the raga is the basic melodic framework and it is built on the tonic. Tonic detection is therefore fundamental for any melodic analysis in Indian classical music. This workexplores detection of tonic by processing the pitch histograms of Indian classic music. Processing of pitch histograms using group delay functions and its ability to amplify certain traits of Indian music in the pitch histogram, is discussed. Three different strategies to detect tonic, namely, the concert method, the template matching and segmented histogram method are proposed. The concert method exploits the fact that the tonic is constant over a piece/concert.templatematchingmethod and segmented histogrammethodsuse the properties: (i) the tonic is always present in the background, (ii) some notes are less inflected and dominant, to detect the tonic of individual pieces. All the three methods yield good results for Carnatic music (90−100% accuracy), while for Hindustanimusic, the templatemethod works best, provided the v¯adi samv¯adi notes for a given piece are known (85%).

Metrical strength and contradiction in turkish Makam music

In this paper we investigate how note onsets in Turkish Makam music compositions are distributed, and in how far this distribution supports or contradicts the metrical structure of the pieces, the usul. We use MIDI data to derive the distributions in the form of onset histograms, and comparethem with metrical weights that are applied to describe the usul in theory. We compute correlation and syncopation values to estimate the degrees of support and contradiction, respectively. While the concept of syncopation is rarelymentioned in the context of this music, we can gain interesting insight into the structure of a piece using such a measure.We show that metrical contradiction is systematically applied in some metrical structures. We will compare thedifferences between Western music and Turkish Makam music regarding metrical support and contradiction. Such a study can help avoiding pitfalls in later attempts to perform audio processing tasks such as beat tracking or rhythmic similarity measurements.

Features for analysis of Makam music

For computational studies of makam music, it is essential to gather a list of characteristics that constitute a makam and explore corresponding quantitative features for automaticanalysis. This study is such an attempt where we address the characteristics for makams as defined in theory books and deduce a list of quantitative features. The target here is to evoke discussions on some measurable features other than providing complete analysis on thediscriminative potentials of each proposed feature which could be the subject of a few larger studies.

Entrevistes i Estudi de Cas. desembre 2013 i gener 2014

Aquest document consta de les nou entrevistes realitzades durant els mesos de desembre 2013 igener 2014, per tal d'elaborar la comunicació La enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la música tradicional y popular en Cataluña: el caso del AMTP, CAT y los grupos de castellers y gigantes, que es presenta al III Congrés CEIMUS Congreso de Educación y Investigación Musical, Enseñar y aprender música: modelo tradicional, online y semipresencial, que es celebra a Barcelona el 28 de febrer i 1 i 2 de març de 2014.

Detection of Raga-characteristic phrases from Hindustani Classical Music Audio

Melodic motifs form essential building blocks in Indian Classical music. The motifs, or key phrases, providestrong cues to the identity of the underlying raga in both Hindustani and Carnatic styles of Indian music. Automatic identification and clustering of similar motifs is relevant in this context. The inherent variations in various instances of a characteristic phrase in a bandish (composition)performance make it challenging to identify similar phrases in a performance. A nyas svara (long note)marks the ending of these phrases. The proposed method does segmentation of phrases through identification ofnyas and computes similarity with the reference characteristic phrase.

Carnatic music: Svara, Gamaka, Motif and Raga identity

Over the last century in Karnatik music, the method ofunderstanding raga has been to break it down into its variouscomponents, svara, scale, gamaka, and phrases. In this paper, an attempt is made to define the abstract concept of raga in its entirety within the aesthetics of Karnatik music considering the various components and their symbiotic relationship. This paper also attempts to prove that theidentity of a raga exists as a whole. Section 2 explains theconcept of a fundamental musical note or svara. Section 3 illustrates the concept of gamaka or inflections. Section 4 delves into the concept of raga in detail and then flows into Section 5 which enunciates the identity of a raga in terms of svara, gamaka, and phraseology. The paper concludes in Section 6, and Section 7 gives the references.

Sensorimotor Plasticity after Music-Supported Therapy in Chronic Stroke Patients Revealed by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

BACKGROUND: Several recently developed therapies targeting motor disabilities in stroke sufferers have shown to be more effective than standard neurorehabilitation approaches. In this context, several basic studies demonstrated that music training produces rapid neuroplastic changes in motor-related brain areas. Music-supported therapy has been recently developed as a new motor rehabilitation intervention. METHODS AND RESULTS: In order to explore the plasticity effects of music-supported therapy, this therapeutic intervention was applied to twenty chronic stroke patients. Before and after the music-supported therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied for the assessment of excitability changes in the motor cortex and a 3D movement analyzer was used for the assessment of motor performance parameters such as velocity, acceleration and smoothness in a set of diadochokinetic movement tasks. Our results suggest that the music-supported therapy produces changes in cortical plasticity leading the improvement of the subjects' motor performance. CONCLUSION: Our findings represent the first evidence of the neurophysiological changes induced by this therapy in chronic stroke patients, and their link with the amelioration of motor performance. Further studies are needed to confirm our observations.

Història i Comunitat Popular a l’Alemanya Nazi

El projecte pretén esdevenir l’anàlisi sobre quin fou el rol que assumí la història –a nivell institucional, educatiu i popular– en la configuració del Tercer Reich, apuntant doncs principalment a descobrir quina funció va tenir aquesta en la construcció de la nació alemanya durant els anys trenta. La hipòtesi que servirà de punt de partida de la investigació serà concebre que la història es convertí en una eïna que únicament es debia a l’estat per així poder reforçar la construcció del règim nacionalsocialista alemany. L’estudi es dedicarà per tant a haver de demostrar tal afirmació.

August i la política d'entreteniment popular: la construcció d'edificis d'espectacles durant l'època augustal.

Quan August va accedir al poder en solitari l'any 31 aC, Roma es trobava trastornada per un seguit de guerres civils que havien deixat l'Estat molt malparat. A partir d'aquell moment, el principal objectiu d'August va ser el retorn a la normalitat, assegurar les necessitats del poble i consolidar el règim que acabava d'inaugurar. No en va, aquest emperador presumia d'haver trobat una Roma de maons i haverla deixat de marbre. August va assumir una bona part de les despeses que generava aquesta política com si fos un veritable deure personal. Gràcies a la immensa fortuna heretada de Juli Cèsar, August va poder finançar aquells aspectes de la vida pública que més atreien els seus contemporanis. El primer ciutadà de l'Imperi es converteix també en el primer evergeta (benefactor) amb un propòsit ben interessat: captar el favor popular.

August i la política d'entreteniment popular: la construcció d'edificis d'espectacles durant l'època augustal.

Quan August va accedir al poder en solitari l'any 31 aC, Roma es trobava trastornada per un seguit de guerres civils que havien deixat l'Estat molt malparat. A partir d'aquell moment, el principal objectiu d'August va ser el retorn a la normalitat, assegurar les necessitats del poble i consolidar el règim que acabava d'inaugurar. No en va, aquest emperador presumia d'haver trobat una Roma de maons i haverla deixat de marbre. August va assumir una bona part de les despeses que generava aquesta política com si fos un veritable deure personal. Gràcies a la immensa fortuna heretada de Juli Cèsar, August va poder finançar aquells aspectes de la vida pública que més atreien els seus contemporanis. El primer ciutadà de l'Imperi es converteix també en el primer evergeta (benefactor) amb un propòsit ben interessat: captar el favor popular.