Composed for Solo Guitar or String Orchestra? The Fluid Incarnations and Pedagogical Opportunities of Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue Guitar by Bart Eeckhout

“…This article elaborates the critical, editorial, and pedagogical challenges and opportunities raised by Wallace Stevens’s The Man with the Blue Guitar (both the book and the title poem). It ranges from a consideration of the title poem’s unpublished autograph and the preliminary appearance of a selection of cantos in Twentieth Century Verse and Poetry to the book published by Knopf in 1937, its subsequent repackaging in 1952, and the different ways in which especially the title poem has been integrated in selected, collected, and artistically augmented volumes for the English-speaking market, as well as in translation. …”
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Fondling Breasts and Playing Guitar. Textual and Contextual Expressions of a Sociomusical Conflict in Accra by Tobias Robert Klein

“…Its violation by charismatic churches sparked off a fierce debate on the freedom of worship, in which traditional religion quarrels with Africanised congregations, for whom electric guitars, dances and tongue-speaking form part and parcel of their services. …”
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Design and Manufacturing of a Custom Guitar Amplifier: Optimizing Materials for Acoustic Performance and Durability by Andrada Elena KUBASZKY, Patricia Isabela BRĂILEANU

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AirStrum: A virtual guitar using real-time hand gesture recognition and strumming technique by Beulah ARUL, Shashank PANDA, Tushar NAIR

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Accords et désaccords. Pratiques et représentations de la guitare à Madrid et en Andalousie de 1883 à 1922 by Vinciane Trancart

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Guitarist Fingertip Tracking by Integrating a Bayesian Classifier into Particle Filters by Chutisant Kerdvibulvech, Hideo Saito

“…We propose a vision-based method for tracking guitar fingerings made by guitar players. We present it as a new framework for tracking colored finger markers by integrating a Bayesian classifier into particle filters. …”
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Sistem Bantu untuk Pengrajin dalam Menentukan Kayu Terbaik Terbaik untuk Bahan Gitar dengan Menggunakan Matode Moora by Tundo Tundo, Wisnu Dwi Nugroho

“…Proving the results of the MOORA method, the respondents directly gave the results of the method to guitar-making experts. Of the 15 expert guitar makers, 13 said they agreed with the third largest ranking, and 2 said they disagreed. …”
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Na rota dos festivais: uma tradição que se renova by Andréa Betânia da Silva

“…In this aim, the present article looks at a trajectory established in Northeast Brazil’s improvised singing, more specifically the universe of poetic match, coming from the “pés de parede” (simple matches) to the festivals of guitar players that spread themselves through Northeast Brazil, aiming to realize that cultural contexts gave birth, if not to invention, at least the renewal of a tradition.…”
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La réplique d’expérience en musique : la question de la jouabilité des instruments au musée de la Musique by Marie-Anne Loeper-Attia

“…The question will be treated here using a variety of modern and contemporary musical instruments, including a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, Martenot Waves and a Max Mathews aluminium violin.…”
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SELF-SIMILARITY IN PITCH ORGANIZATION by Adrian BORZA

“…Also, we will investigate the author’s self-similar, non-octave-based, and full-chromatic mode of twenty-three notes, which led to the author’s compositions, such as Chaconne for guitar solo (1999), Fractus III for percussion and computer (2001), and Point. …”
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Vous avez dit rock arabe ? Retour sur la trajectoire du groupe Carte de séjour (1980-1989) by Philippe Hanus

“…This group, which incorporates electric guitar, bass and drums established a core rock sound that was “orientalised” by the use of the oud, and North African percussions. …”
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The Power of Folk Music: City Branding, Musical Imaginaries, and Tourism-induced Placemaking in Yulin, Chengdu (China) by Shuyue Chen

“…In 2017, a folk musician, Zhao Lei, performed his song, Chengdu, on Hunan TV. Using guitar, piano, and children’s voices, the song depicts a romantic story on the street of Yulin and reinforces the imaginaries of Chengdu as a leisure city. …”
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Investigation of the Acoustic Properties of Chemically Impregnated Kayu Malam Wood Used for Musical Instrument by Md. Faruk Hossen, Sinin Hamdan, Md. Rezaur Rahman

“…The results suggested that the chemically impregnated Kayu Malam wood polymer nanocomposite (WPNC) is suitable for making soundboards of violin and guitar instruments to be played longer without losing tone quality.…”
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Deep Ensemble Learning for Human Action Recognition in Still Images by Xiangchun Yu, Zhe Zhang, Lei Wu, Wei Pang, Hechang Chen, Zhezhou Yu, Bin Li

“…Numerous human actions such as “Phoning,” “PlayingGuitar,” and “RidingHorse” can be inferred by static cue-based approaches even if their motions in video are available considering one single still image may already sufficiently explain a particular action. …”
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Des mains à la bouche dans l'épouillage mutuel des chimpanzés sauvages de Fongoli : Latéralité, synchronisation mains‑lèvres et origine du langage by Adrien Meguerditchian, Marie Plouvier, Mélissa Berthet, Jill Pruetz, William D Hopkins

“…De tels liens entre la main et la bouche ne semblent donc pas exclusivement liés au langage et s'étendent même au système moteur : Par exemple, il n'est pas rare de produire des mouvements de lèvres ou de langue involontaires lorsque nous réalisons des activités manuelles précises (comme jouer de la guitare ou dessiner par exemple). Ses observations soulignent les connexions neuromusculaires potentielles entre les systèmes moteurs oro-faciaux et manuels qui pourraient favoriser les liens entre les gestes et la parole. …”
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