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The classical music book
This original, graphic-led book explores and explains the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, defines their importance to the musical canon, and places them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context. The nineteenth title in DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, The Classical Music Book combines accessible, authoritative text with bold explanatory graphics to make the subject of classical music approachable to readers with an interest in the subject who want to learn more while still offering enough to appeal to music aficionados.
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Classical Recording
Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music. Offering detailed descriptions, diagrams, and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca Tree, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essential skills involved in successfully producing a classical recording. Written by engineers with years of experience working for Decca and Abbey Road Studios and as freelancers, Classical Recording equips the student, the interested amateur, and the practising professional with the required knowledge and confidence to tackle everything from solo piano to opera.
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Raga Bhairavi in virtual reality reduces stress-related psychophysiological markers
The effects of classical music on psychophysiological parameters are not well understood. This study aimed to investigate the impact of listening to raga Bhairavi, an Indian Classical Music for six days on anxiety, stress, depression, and heart rate variability (HRV) parameters. Forty-four individuals were randomly assigned to either the intervention group (VR-raga), where they listened to raga Bhairavi via 360° video in a virtual reality environment, or the control group, where there was no exposure to raga Bhairavi for six days. Before allocation, the HRV baselines (relax-baseline and stress-baseline) were recorded on the first day. On the first and sixth days of the intervention, HRV was monitored, and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) questionnaire was administered before and after the intervention. After six days, all DASS-21 subscales were significantly reduced in the VR-raga group. A similar trend was observed in the seven HRV parameters evaluated in this study, which demonstrated reduced physiological stress and enhanced autonomic balance following the six-day intervention. The findings collectively indicated the efficacy of the VR-based raga Bhairavi intervention in reducing psychological stress markers and highlighted the potential applications of utilizing the VR-based raga intervention for improving mental well-being in the real-world context.
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The Historical Significance of the Structural Expansion of Beethoven's Mid-Term Sonatas for the Breakthrough of Classical Paradigms
This article explores the phenomenon of structural expansion in Beethoven's mid-term sonatas and its historical significance in redefining the classical paradigm. Through a detailed analysis of representative works such as the Waldstein Sonata (Op. 53), the Kreutzer Sonata (Op. 47), and the Passionate Sonata (Op. 57), research shows that Beethoven expanded the length of the exposition, increased the diversity of themes, and broke tone symmetry. These innovations reflect a profound philosophical shiftfrom Enlightenment rationalism to romantic subjectivity. The article advocates that Beethoven's formal experiment is not only a technical adjustment, but also a profound artistic response to individual and expressive changes, laying the foundation for romantic music aesthetics.
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Western Classical Music Concerts Are More Immersive, Intellectually Stimulating, and Social, When Experienced Live Rather Than in a Digital Stream. An Ecologically Valid Concert Study on Different Modes of Liveness
The presented study compares conventional live concerts to digital streams on multiple audience experience dimensions in ecologically valid settings. Furthermore, it includes an analysis of the audience's previous expectations regarding certain aspects of concert experience. Data from pre- and post-concert questionnaires from concertgoers of 12 concerts in physical co-presence of musicians and audience (with a total sample size of N = 1,133 participants) were compared with those from four digital stream concerts. The concert program included Western classical music by van Beethoven and Brahms and a contemporary piece by Brett Dean. We found that the live concerts were rated significantly higher in three out of four experience dimensions, especially in terms of social experience. Furthermore, those concertgoers who had a priori high expectations toward social experiences rated these even more intensively at the live concerts compared to digital streams. We also observed that the felt interaction of musicians and audience was stronger in live concerts. These results strongly support theory about concert experience and bring new indications of what is unique about live concerts, distinguishing their experience from that of the digital stream concerts.
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Trans-Atlantic passages : Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1889-1933
\"Trans-Atlantic Passages : Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1889-1933 deals with one of the greatest of American music critics writing about one of the greatest of American Orchestras during a time of great change. Philip Hale (1854-1934) put Boston on the Transatlantic map in terms of the music world and its circuits of exchange. Professor Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of Hale's contributions to music criticism and to the role the Boston Symphony was able to play in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Visual Mental Imagery Evoked in Indian Classical Music: A Listener-Oriented Study
Music and visual mental imagery (VMI) are closely associated. The visual depiction of musical instruments and musical settings is central to music iconography and music-mediated visual culture. Music-evoked VMI, mediated by emotions, is another established field of study. Hindustani classical music (HCM) has a medieval musical pictorial tradition based on dhyanaslokas (meditative verses), which visually represent the ragas (musical modes) based on the evocation of their rasas or aesthetic emotion. This, incidentally, comes close to the contemporary understanding of music-evoked VMI. However, VMI evoked in response to music has received very little attention in studies on HCM, both for contemporary listeners and historically. In this context, we investigated whether HCM evoked VMI and whether its content was related to emotions, such as “calm” and “sad”, that dominate HCM. Additionally, the themes of the VMI in response to calm and sad clips were compared with corresponding VMI in Western music. Finally, medieval dhyanaslokas were analyzed for associated visual imagery (VI) that was compared with VMI generated in these contexts. Findings revealed that HCM evokes VMI, which is well differentiated for calm and sad clips. When the VMI for HCM was compared with Western VMI, though common themes emerged, cultural differences were identified. While VI in dhyanaslokas had similarities to VMI in response to HCM, marked differences also existed.
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