9 articles in this issue
Daniel Müllensiefen,Daniel Shanahan
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Marco Susino,Emery Schubert
This research investigated whether negative emotional responses to heavy-metal and hip-hop music could be stereotypes of the music genres. It was hypothesized that heavy-metal and hip-hop music with positive lyrics would be perceived as expressing more ne... see more
Manuel Anglada-Tort
In this commentary, I first discuss the strengths of the target paper and provide suggestions for future research. I proceed to point out an important limitation of the target study as well as contribute considerations relevant to measuring stereotypes in... see more
Tilo Hähnel,Karin Martensen
We linked an analysis of vocal vibratos in early recordings with Edison's dismissive attitude towards singers' tremolos in the same recordings. We conclude that there are at least two different factors contributing to Edison's concept of tremolo, which in... see more
Daniel Shanahan
This commentary discusses and contextualizes Hähnel and Martensen's analysis of Edison's recordings and correspondence, situating their study within some of the work done on the diffusion of innovations, and some other work on the history of recording. Th... see more
John Napier
In this paper, I investigate structural proportions in improvised Hindustani (North Indian) vocal music. 235 examples of two types of alap were examined: 175 in the genre of khayal, 60 in the genre of dhrupad. Both studio recordings and recordings of conc... see more
David Temperley
I define a second-position syncopation as one involving a long note or accent on the second quarter of a half-note or quarter-note unit. I present a corpus analysis of second-position syncopation in 19th-century European and American vocal music. I argue ... see more
Nat Condit-Schultz
In the article Second-Position Syncopation in European and American Vocal Music, David Temperley presents an empirical, socio-cultural survey of syncopation in 19th-century Western music. He espouses the following novel ideas about operational definitions... see more
Michael Spitzer
This commentary offers a critique of the idea that nostalgia can be conveyed by a single chord – a major 7th. The commentary questions the constancy of emotion conveyed by a single chord in its different manifestations, and the extent to which it can affo... see more