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    • Kannikeswaran, Kanniks (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      The quarantine silences our collective musical voice, but a bright world awaits us.
    • Harmon-Jones, Cindy Kay (2012-10-19)
      Past research suggested that greater rhythmic complexity in musical behavior increases affiliation in small groups. The current research tested the hypothesis that musical behavior including melody would promote affiliation. ...
    • Davis, Natalie Anne (2019-07-19)
      The emotional effect of music lyrics on humans has not been widely researched. There were 53 participants that ranged from ages 19-34 in this study. Of the 53 participants, 43 identified as female, 10 identified as male, ...
    • Patwardhan, Nandini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I mistakenly thought the song “I just called to say I love you” was about a dystopian future, but it turned out to have the perfect message for the dystopian present.
    • Muetzel, Joshua Allen (2020-05-21)
      How do a steel band’s practices, customs, and traditions create its unique social culture, and how are these practices rooted in the cultural history of the instrument? This text examines the history and evolution of the ...
    • Beavers, Rachael (2012-04-22)
      Often, both music and architecture reflect a certain zeitgeist of the era in which they were created; the underlying ideas and changing social principles are reflected in the art forms these societies create. This thesis ...
    • Fincher, Clint (1993)
      Researchers have directed a considerable amount of energy towards using computers to generate music, but have spent comparatively little effort on the reverse problem - converting music back into a symbolic form. This ...
    • Harmon, Justin Tyler (2015-04-24)
      Music is a topic that is not often covered in leisure studies even though it frequently accompanies many of the activities we participate in. Music is central to human development, communication and meaning-making, and as ...
    • Barry, Maggie W. (Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1938)
    • Bowman, Casady Diane (2015-12-11)
      Music and speech are used to express emotion, yet it is unclear how these domains are related. This dissertation addresses three problems in the current literature. First, speech and music have largely been studied separately. ...
    • Westwater, James Andrew (2017-05-02)
      This study focuses on the affective role of the built space of artistic production––the studio, the writing room, the rehearsal space, and the city––to examine, through the lens of architecture, mechanisms of artistic ...
    • Mani, Charulatha (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I had to lose myself in the thick of the COVID to even begin to fathom the true value of the human voice.