The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last
decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing …

The ability for musicians to interact face-to-face has been highly impacted by the COVID-19
pandemic. Physical distancing and travel restrictions have forced teaching, rehearsals, and …

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts
and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book'Music and …

Thanks to the decreasing cost of whole-body sensing technology and its increasing
reliability, there is an increasing interest in, and understanding of, the role played by body …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

I am delighted to be in a position to write this preface: it is the last task that I need to get done
before I submit the manuscript for production. I have just gone through the checklist. All good …

Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between
individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music's social …

Background Previous research highlights the importance of staff involvement in
psychosocial interventions targeting neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. Music therapy …

WE INVESTIGATED INFLUENCES OF AUDITORY FEEDBACK, musical role, and note ratio
on synchronization in ensemble performance. Pianists performed duets on a piano …

Music researchers frequently regard music in terms of works, and regard these works in
terms of scores. Yet in an important sense, music exists only in the moment of its …