Introduction Music is known to elicit strong emotions in listeners, and, if primed
appropriately, can give rise to specific and observable crossmodal correspondences. This …

This thesis investigates the notion of shape in music from a psychological perspective.
Rooted in the embodied cognition research programme, it seeks to understand what kinds of …

Physical effort has often been regarded as a key factor of expressivity in music performance.
Nevertheless, systematic experimental approaches to the subject have been rare. In North …

We propose a new musical interface, TrAP (TRace-A-Phrase) for generating phrases of
Hindustani Classical Music (HCM). In this system the user traces melodic phrases on a …

This paper describes an experiment in which the subjects performed a sound-tracing task to
vocal melodies. They could move freely in the air with two hands, and their motion was …

This project aims at investigating spatial cognition and melodic contours in Hindustani
classical music. The descriptions of ragas in musical literature up until recently has been …

This chapter explains the complexity-reduction techniques often applied in modeling music
interaction. It looks at the ramifications of reducing complexity and exploiting similarity for a …

L'objectiu de la tesi és demostrar empíricament que els estudiants de violí de l'àmbit de la
música clàssica i contemporània de l'Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya milloren …