Music Therapy
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio Music Therapy Music therapy is the clinical use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals that address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. According to the American Music Therapy Association’s web site (www. musictherapy.org), t...

ARTstor Collections Relevant to Music History
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio ART Collections History Music Relevant Several ARTstor collections will be of  interest to students of  Music and its history. For instance, women in music are richly represented in the Schlesinger History of  Women in America Collection from Harvard University’s Radcliffe Instit...

Music sharing with conventional media
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio media Music sharing While market surveys report that 15% of the UK population copy music using conventional, non-Internet means (Mintel, 1998), all of our interviewees (both MP3 using and not) had copied some original recordings with conventional formats: “Oh, [I...

Music and friendship
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio friendship Music The major source for material to copy came from friends. Indeed, copying music was an activity very much embedded in existing social networks. For the teenagers we interviewed, a common social activity would be to visit friends’ homes and play...

Implications for Technology Design
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio Design Implications Technology In the above two sections, we have highlighted some of the details of sharing music in both conventional and MP3 form. Music sharing with conventional media is deeply embedded in social activities, connected with both friendship and identity. For the...

Western Classical Music in Japan
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio Classical Japan Music Western By  the  early  20th  century  there were connoisseurs  of Western  classical music  in sufficient  numbers  to  attract  the  attention of  European  performers,  some  of whom came  to  Japan  to  give  recitals  or mount con...

Music Sharing in the Literature
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio Literature Music One of the first recorded instances of music piracy was the copying of Allegri’s Miserere by Mozart in 1769: “Young Mozart attended a performance of the celebrated Miserere of Allegri which could be heard only in Rome during Holy Week per...

Music sharing over the Internet
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio Internet Music We now move onto music sharing activity  over the Internet, as conducted by our MP3 users. Many of the MP3 files which our enthusiasts had on their computers were recordings that they also owned in conventional formats. A CD can be placed into a com...

Music in Modern Japan
on Feb 20, 2009 in Music Audio Japan Modern Music The Meiji government, with  the  intention of modernizing  Japanese music,  introduced Western music  instruction  in  schools, and  in 1879  Izawa  Shuji,  a government bureaucrat who  had  studied  in  the United    States, commis...