Convolutional Neural Networks for Direction of Arrival Estimation Compared to Classical Estimators and Bounds by Christopher J. Bell, Kaushallya Adhikari, Andrew Brown

“…We show that for the single-source case, the CNNs do not offer any performance improvement relative to MUSIC at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For the two-source cases, the CNNs perform better than MUSIC but only at low SNR. …”
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Tonal Poetry, Bop Aesthetics, and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard by James J. Donahue

“…I contend that by reading Kerouac’s novel in terms of Mingus’s methods of composition as recorded on that album, we can more clearly hear the influence of jazz music on Kerouac’s prose; as such, we can better understand the means by which jazz music became important as a compositional method and not just as a theme for Kerouac’s novels. …”
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Direction Finding for Bistatic MIMO Radar with Uniform Circular Array by Cao Yunhe, Zhang Zijing, Wang Shenghua, Dai Fengzhou

“…The angle estimation performance of the proposed method is similar to that of the MUSIC spectral search method, but the computation burden of the proposed polynomial rooting algorithm is much lower than that of the conventional MUSIC method. …”
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“Talking ’Bout My Generation”: Visual History Interviews—A Practitioner’s Report by Wolfgang Lorenz

“…“‘Talking ’Bout My Generation’” discusses these aspects in connection with African American culture and music. The following sound bites are part of a series of videotaped oral history interviews with some of the most influential artists, producers and music managers in the history of recorded music. …”
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Editorial: Physical Education among gifted students by Alejandro Prieto-Ayuso, Sebastiaan Willem-Jan Platvoet, Mark de Niet, Álvaro Infantes-Paniagua

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Klasyfikacja semantyczna rosyjskich i polskich nazw muzyki rozrywkowej by Rafał Kowalczyk

“…This paper presents a practical application of multifaceted research into the vocabulary of popular music in contemporary Russian and Polish. It contains explanatory notes in the first part and appendixes, i.e. mini Russian-Polish dictionaries, in the second part. …”
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Life Thinning and Gaming Disorder: A Longitudinal Qualitative Registered Report by Karhulahti, Veli-Matti, Siutila, Miia, Vahlo, Jukka, Koskimaa, Raine

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The Harmonic Walk: An Interactive Physical Environment to Learn Tonal Melody Accompaniment by Marcella Mandanici, Antonio Rodà, Sergio Canazza

“…Notwithstanding tonal music is very common in our lives, unskilled people as well as music students and even professionals are scarcely conscious of what these features actually are. …”
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Traditional Language with a Flair for Innovation: Hans Florian Zimmer’s Compositional Process by Gabriele

“…His work defines the characteristics of present-day film music and is regarded as one of the most efficient practices in the field. …”
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Le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle à l’opéra : la sentimentalité, Pamela et The Maid of the Mill by Michael Burden

“…-1808) who re-worked it as an English opera, remarking that the piece ‘however trifling in other circumstances, was the first sentimental drama that had appeared on the English stage for forty years’. The work set to music by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802), was representative of a new musical genre, the pastiche opera that incorporated the music of others. …”
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American Polka in the Media: From Next to Nothing to 24/7 by Richard March

“…From its very inception as a nineteenth century popular culture fad, the media presence of polka music has been crucial to its diffusion. In the 1940s and 1950s, polka enjoyed a high profile in American mass media. …”
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THE RHYTHMICALLY, MELODICALLY AND RHYTHMIC-MELODICALLY ANALOGIES IN RICHARD WAGNER’S OPERAS by Gabriela Coca

“… In Richard Wagner’s opera the composer put the rhythm both in the service of the musical dramaturgy and also in the melody, the harmony, the polyphony, the orchestration and the musical form. …”
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“THE HUNGARIAN FOLK-SONG … ECHO OF THE ENTIRE HUNGARIAN SOUL” – THOUGHTS UPON A QUOTATION FROM ZOLTÁN KODÁLY by Zoltán SZALAY

“…Zoltán Kodály writes these lines in 1943, after he ascertains that pentatonic tunes constitute the Hungarians most ancient music. Thus the pentatonic scale is very important in Hungarian music in general. …”
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Does Frankie Go to Hollywood? From American influence to articulatory phonetics: the singing pronunciation of 1980s pop artists by Coline Caillol, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…Traditional sociocultural arguments pertaining to the influence of the American music industry and American-born music genres are presented, supported by some of the artists’ own viewpoints collected interviews freely available online. …”
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University Students’ Perceptions of Sustainability and Ecological Footprint in the Use of Digital Leisure by Albert Marquès-Donoso, Ana Martínez-Hernández, Patricia Revuelta

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Rzecz o potencjale dziecka w aktywnościach muzycznych – refleksje o „ruchu z muzyką” by Ewa Szatan

“…One of the activities is movement with music, in which children realize their musical and movement interpretations. …”
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Jacques Gilard y la música popular colombiana by Egberto Bermúdez

“…This work analyzes Jacques Gilard’s important contribution –as well as its reception− dealing with what remains an isolated case in the literary context and which brings up a debate concerning the vallenato and popular music in the Colombian Caribbean coast. From a long series of well balanced essays emerge Gilard’s main arguments about the links existing between vallenatopolitics-power that were rejected by the Colombian establishment, and which are in turn, the starting point of Wade’s exposition about the vallenato, specially his thesis about the emergence of the claiming of the coastal music and culture within the country’s interior.…”
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Woodstock au fil de ses médiations : Les technologies sonores et les mises en scène du live by Sergio Pisfil, Jos Mulder

“…In doing so, we provide clear examples that place sound mediation at the heart of all live music practices. Finally, we closely consider the aforementioned broadcast to describe some of the new possibilities of the staging of liveness that is afforded by the Internet.…”
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Regards sur un paysage anglais : « Seascape » de W.H. Auden à Benjamin Britten by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Auden’s poem “Seascape” and other artistic languages such as painting and music since the poem was actually set to music by Benjamin Britten. …”
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The Tongue, The Gong and the Song: Olú Ọbáfẹ́mi at 70 by Toyin Falola

“…From the streets of this land to the world across, those who know the music of hope know the words weaved by you, Olú. …”
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