Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021: Volume 1 (Current Research in Systematic Musicology, 8)

This book presents sixteen chapters in Volume 1. This Volume I of the Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 offers a smorgasbord of scientific approaches to music. The congress is one of a kind; it is dedicated not to a specific field but to the interdisciplinary developments and the interaction with the representatives from actual scientific disciplines. The languages of mathematics, computer science, semiotics, palaeography, and medicine are in the mix; geography of the studies is also impressive―Greece, Mexico, China, Russia, India, Poland, and USA, to name just a few. The purpose of such juxtaposition is to see how the terminology, categorical apparatus, and interpretations of music vary from science to science and how this can enrich the terminology of music theory. They cover a wide range of topics that the editors divided into four subfields: music in interdisciplinary contexts, music and current technology, musical instruments and voice, and music pedagogy and medicine. The opening section of the Proceedings is thus dedicated to the idea of interdisciplinarity, relationship of creator of theory of harmony Rameau to sciences of his time, the idea of number in music, co-creation, and the category of musical network. Three more chapters here deal with Russian palaeography, Indian musical genre, and the idea of musical semiotics. It is a kind of opening statement from music theorists. Part two, music and current technology, united three chapters, on “zero gravity” concept in modern music, discussion of scales as mathematical networks, and the innovation in digital music making, transforming it from stationary to mobile applications. The third part, musical instruments and voice, is of special interest because it is in the study of the instruments, the design, acoustic characteristics, and tuning, and sciences have cooperated with music theory for centuries. In addition to instruments, one chapter here is dedicated to voice. The last part, musical pedagogy and medicine, takes the reader even further into the interdisciplinary domain. The Proceedings is written in standard English language, prepared for the pleasure of reading of wide circles of professionals in different fields. The purpose of the editors is to bring this rather diverse set of texts into the context of a fruitful dialogue. Preface Contents Music in Interdisciplinary Contexts On the Concept of Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Music 1 Introduction 2 Music Theories 3 Multidisciplinarity in Music 4 Conclusion References Rameau and the Sciences: The Impact of Scientific Discoveries of the Lumières on Rameau’s Theory of Harmony 1 Introduction 2 Materials 3 Method 4 Results 5 Discussion 5.1 The Idea of Chord, l’accord parfait,as the Independent Element of Harmony 5.2 The Idea of the Root of the Chord (racine) that Defines all its Inversions 5.3 The Idea of Classification and Hierarchy of the Triads and Their Inversions, as Well as the Hierarchy of Primary and Secondary Triads 5.4 The Idea of Harmonic Function of the Chord, tonique,sous-dominant and dominant-tonique (in Génération harmonique) 5.5 The Discovery of the Leading Tone 5.6 The Idea of Fundamental Bass That is the Succession of the Roots of the Chords 5.7 The Idea of the Natural Laws of Music, le corps sonore (in Traité de l’harmonie) 6 Conclusion References Music – Number – Word. History and Theory of Connections 1 Introduction 2 Number and Word in Music History (Short Review) 2.1 Number and Music 2.2 Word and Music 3 Number and Word (Name) in A. Losev’s Philosophy of Music 3.1 Music as Expression of Becoming of Number 3.2 “Music Myth” as a Name and Meaning of Music 4 Conclusion References The Musical Co-creation as an Artistic-Dynamic System 1 Introduction 2 Materials and Methods 3 Results 4 Discussion 5 Conclusions References Conceptual Integration Network as Musicologist’s Work Tool 1 Introduction 2 Case Study 3 Conclusion References Genre Paradigms of the Vocal Up-Shastriya Music in the Culture of South Asia 1 Introduction 2 Classics and Semi-classics: Common Traits and Differences 3 Vocal Thumri as a Genre Standard of the Up-Shastriya 4 The Genre Overview of the Up-Shastriya: Chaiti, Kajri, Hori, Savani, Jhula, Baramasi 5 Local Traditions of South Asia in the Context of the Up-Shastriya Genres 6 Conclusion References Semantic Analysis of a Musical Work 1 Introduction 2 Materials and Methods 3 Results 4 Discussion 5 Conclusion References Ancient Russian Znamenny Chant Notation as a Semiotic System 1 Introduction 2 Znamenny Notation 3 Znamenny Notation as a Semiotic System 4 Conclusion References Music and Current Technology “Zero Gravity”: A Specific Textural Type in Contemporary European Art Music 1 I 2 II 3 III 4 IV 5 V References Networks of Symbolic Dynamical Scales 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 2.1 Scales: Binary Sequences, Intervalic Circles, and Integer Compositions 2.2 The First Symbol Rule and Symbolic Dynamical Scales 2.3 Modes, Orbitals, and Transversals 3 Thue-Morse, Fibonacci, and Feigenbaum Scales 4 Networks of Symbolic Dynamical Scales 5 Conclusions References Mobile Deployment of Electro Acoustic Compositions and Media Artworks 1 Introduction 2 Deployment to iOS 3 Working with Compositional Material 4 Aesthetics and Computation 5 Historical Context 6 Paths Forward 7 Conclusions References Musical Instruments and Voice A Pilot-Study of Chinese Wind and String Instrumentalists’ Intonation 1 Introduction 2 Methodology 3 Results and Discussions 3.1 Observations Across all Instrumentalists 3.2 Comparison Between Wind and String Instrumentalists 3.3 Observations of Instrumentalist’s Behaviour with Respect to Performance Tasks 4 Conclusion References Instrument Playing Technique Recognition: A Greek Music Use Case 1 Introduction 2 The Problem 3 Dataset Description 4 Instrument Playing Technique Recognition Using Audio Analysis 4.1 Feature Extraction 4.2 Classifier Training, Prediction and Probability Thresholding 5 Baseline Classification Results 5.1 Performance Results 5.2 Performance Results with Subjective Misclassification Penalties 5.3 Classifier Comparison 6 Implementation Issues 7 Conclusions - Future Work References Approaching the Problem of National Strata Ratio: Statistical Analysis Methods for Assessing Vocal Chamber Repertoire in Russia of the First Half of the 19th Century 1 Introduction 2 Materials and Methods 3 Results 4 Discussion 5 Conclusions References Musical Pedagogy and Medicine Music Activities as Tempo-Rhythmic Culture of Personality Development Technology 1 Introduction 2 Literature Review 3 Materials and Methods 3.1 The Base of Empirical Research 3.2 The Two Hypotheses of Research 3.3 The Key Concepts of Research 4 Results 5 Discussion 5.1 Extended Applicability of Results 5.2 Limitations of the Study 6 Conclusion References Hemodialysis Patients Care by Means of Audiotherapy 1 Introduction 2 Literature Review 3 Objective 4 Methods 5 Results 6 Discussion 7 Conclusion References Author Index