Anton Diabellis Variationenprojekt (1819 bis 1824). Geschichtlichkeit und ästhetische Normativität by Tobias Janz

“…Its goal is the reconstruction of music’s changing aesthetic normativity, around which first the composition, then its evaluation, and (last but not least) the interpretation of the variations continue to be oriented.…”
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Non‐Pharmacological Interventions Before Cataract Surgery for Preoperative Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Mahsan Nabighadim, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Mahsa Maghalian

“…Results A random‐effects meta‐analysis of 22 studies and 1998 participants revealed that non‐pharmacological interventions (back massage, hand massage, foot massage, music, educational video, patient education, aromatherapy and relaxation techniques) significantly reduced mean preoperative anxiety compared to the control group. …”
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Interaction of Musicianship and Aging: A Comparison of Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials by Jennifer L. O’Brien, Dee A. Nikjeh, Jennifer J. Lister

“…The goal of this study was to begin to explore whether the beneficial auditory neural effects of early music training persist throughout life and influence age-related changes in neurophysiological processing of sound. …”
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DESAIN PERMUKIMAN NELAYAN PANTAI MERPATI DI KABUPATEN BULUKUMBA by Marwati Marwati, Wasilah Wasilah, Ulfa Idin Hamja

“…Abstract­_ Merpati Beach is located in Bulukumba district which has Potential of Culinary Tourism, fishery industry and music venue. Condition of Housing Settlements that are less feasible. …”
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The Facial approximation of the controversial skull attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) by Cicero Moraes, Jiří Šindelář, Michael E. Habicht, Luca Sineo, Thiago Beaini, Elena Varotto, Francesco Maria Galassi

“…Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) is considered as one of the greatest composers of the Classical Period of music (ca. 1750–1820). Gifted with an unparalleled precocity, which allowed him to play and compose at the highest levels from a very young age, he continued his studies until the end of his life. …”
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From Book to Playlist: How Open-Access Audio Archives are Renewing the Poetry Collection by Abigail Lang

“…Moreover, Zukofsky’s Fall 1972 readings foreground the curatorial role played by his wife, Celia Zukofsky. By setting to music her selections from her husband’s work, she offers two artistically complex textual realizations of a game-changing affordance of sound-recording technologies since the 1963 invention of the audio cassette – i.e. the possibility to anthologize on the receiving end. …”
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Optimal Dependence of Performance and Efficiency of Collaborative Filtering on Random Stratified Subsampling by Samin Poudel, Marwan Bikdash

“…Subsequently, we develop simple models of the Training Time Improvement (TTI) and the Accuracy Loss (AL) as functions of FUD and FID, based on extensive simulations of seven standard CF algorithms as applied to various primary matrices from MovieLens, Yahoo Music Rating, and Amazon Automotive data. Simulations show that both TTI and a scaled AL are bi-linear in FID and FUD for all seven methods. …”
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Numerical Values for the Environmental Factors’ Influence on Surgeons’ Technical Performance Decrement: Spherical Fuzzy-SWARA Approach by Khalil Taherzadeh Chenani, Somayeh Bolghanabadi, Zahra Zamanian, Mohammad Hashemi

“…Specifically, climate conditions and music received the highest and lowest grades in both weight and negative impact rates.Conclusion: The current study offers an original contribution to developing a new taxonomy based on domain-specific knowledge. …”
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‘O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth tremble before him’ (Psalm 96:9)

“…Attendance at Cathedral-type worship where dignified ceremony and beautiful music leave the worshipper free to place his or her own interpretation on the words is steadily increasing. …”
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Effect of Stress on Autonomic and Cardiovascular Systems in Military Population: A Systematic Review by Álvaro Bustamante-Sánchez, José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera, Valentín E. Fernández-Elías, Alberto J. Hormeño-Holgado, Athanasios A. Dalamitros, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

“…Autonomic and cardiovascular chronic stress seems to be modulated by experience and previous specific training of each military unit. Physical exercise, music embedded with binaural beat technology, bidirectional sensory motor rhythm training, heart rate variability biofeedback, and transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation are the main techniques applied to balance stress and to recover body homeostasis. …”
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Students’ cross-domain mindset profiles and academic achievement in Finnish lower-secondary education by Jenni Laurell, Ita Puusepp, Kai Hakkarainen, Kirsi Tirri

“…The Fixed profile was linked to the lowest achievement, except in reading, foreign languages, and music, where Mixed and Fixed profiles performed similarly. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. …”
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TEACHING AND ASSESSING INDEPENDENT LISTENING IN AN ONLINE COURSE FOR TRANSLATION MAJORS by Olga G. Kvasova, Nataliia K. Liamzina, Roksoliana I. Radchuk, Yulia I. Trykashna

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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…It can be claimed that Waters’s narrative ploys are borrowed from the theatrical world which held a real fascination for Dickens. With English Music, Ackroyd, for his part, illustrates what Clayton in his study: Charles Dickens in Cyberspace (2003) calls “undisciplined” creativity, by revisiting Great Expectations trans-artistically, through an odd combination of the pictorial, the musical, the cinematographic and the theatrical. …”
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Texts by Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz in the context of the late medieval ars poetriae by Bartosz Awianowicz

“…In his work, Eberhard of Bremen offers a clear categorization of poetry into poesis metrica based on Classical poetic metres, poesis rithmica or rigmica based on rhyme and rhythm, and a less restricted form of sacred music, known as prosa. Among Petrus Wilhelmi’s 22 compositions (with an acrostic of his name) published by Jaromír Černy, and a dozen or so others identified during the last two decades only two – the composition Presulis eminenciam (I/1), which opens Černý’s edition, and canon (rotulum) Pneuma erumpnosi telluris rei – can be classified as rhythmicized prose from the perspective of the medieval ars poetriae. …”
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Spirituality of HIV-infected female patients treated in a secondary care hospital in Thailand: a preliminary investigation by Natawan Khumsaen, Panarat Chenchob, Supannee Peawnalaw

“…The most frequently used spiritual practices were family activities, listening to music, and visiting a temple or quiet place. The overall spiritual well-being was at a moderate level (mean, 87.65; SD, 22.09). …”
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Evaluating causes and gestures: source-related and crossmodal features in the perception of environmental sounds by Sven-Amin Lembke

“…Communication through auditory cues often evokes associations to other sensory modalities. In film music, for instance, a descending pitch contour commonly resembles a falling motion. …”
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The Influence of Marketing Mix and Cafe Atmosphere on Customer Loyalty Through Customer Satisfaction As a Mediation Variable by M. Risal, Achmad Efendi, Adi Firmanzah

“…Similarly, the café atmosphere, characterized by pleasant lighting, comfortable seating, and enjoyable background music, enhances customer satisfaction. Both the marketing mix and café atmosphere contribute to customer loyalty, as consumers are willing to return and recommend these establishments when they feel satisfied. …”
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Computationally-efficient rendering of diffuse reflections for geometrical acoustics based room simulation by Ewert Stephan D., Gößling Nico, Buttler Oliver, van de Par Steven, Hu Hongmei

“…The proposed method was perceptually evaluated with both music and pulse stimuli against dummy head recordings of real rooms. …”
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Characterization of single reed mouthpiece interaction in quasi-static regime by Gazengel Bruno, Dalmont Jean-Pierre, Gaillard Amélie, Brasseur Emmanuel, Taillard Pierre-André

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