Theories of music origins and the role of musical emotions in the mind are reviewed. Most
existing theories contradict each other, and cannot explain mechanisms or roles of musical …

This paper is a review and critical analysis of the mathematical kinetic theory of active
particles applied to the modelling of large living systems made up of interacting entities. The …

La educación musical actual está atravesando un momento de crisis a nivel global. Los
modelos curriculares priorizan algunas materias en detrimento de otras consideradas …

Empirical studies of emotions in music have described therole of individual musical features
in recognizing particular emotions. However, no attempts have been made as yet to …

Based on recent advancements in cognitive science and mathematical models of the mind,
this paper proposes a hypothesis on a fundamental role of music in cognition, and in the …

Mobile and game-based learning are novel approaches characterised by the use of mobile
devices and enabling learning anywhere and at any time. In this paper, we share an …

Ancient and contemporary theories of the cognitive functions of music are reviewed and
compared with the hypothesis (advanced in Part I) that music performs a fundamental …

An overview of the computational prediction of emotional responses to music is presented.
Communication of emotions by music has received a great deal of attention during the last …

We present a novel set of 200 Western tonal musical stimuli (MUST) to be used in research
on perception and appreciation of music. It consists of four subsets of 50 stimuli varying in …

This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in
which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell …