bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A virtual simulator to improve weight-related communication skills for healthcare professionals: feasibility study (Preprint)
Authors: Quigley Fiona , Moorhead Anne , Bond Raymond , McAloon Toni , Zheng Huiru
Published: September 2024

BACKGROUND

There has been a call to improve training for healthcare professionals (HCPs) on communicating about overweight and obesity for at least ten years. Progress has been made on recognizing the impact of weight stigma and in pharmacotherapeutics, but challenges remain in standardizing the quality of HCP–patient discussions. In other chronic conditions, emphasizing patient-centered communication has helped to improve patient support, such as in diabetes care. However, few weight-related communication studies exist to address the practical skills needed to improve standards. One potential way is using the recent advances in technology such as 3D virtual learning. 3D virtual learning offers a safe and immersive way to acquire the practical skills that benefit from sensitive and compassionate reflection and feedback. VITAL-COMS (Virtual training and assessment for communication Skills) is a new virtual simulation digital training tool to address training gaps for healthcare professionals in weight-related communication, nutrition knowledge, complexities of weight and weight stigma.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of VITAL-COMS to improve how healthcare professionals communicate about weight in healthcare settings.

METHODS

A mixed-method pre and post study examined the feasibility of a scenario-based virtual simulator to improve weight-related communication skills for HCP. Participants were students recruited from healthcare courses or UK-based dietitians, nurses and doctors recruited via social media. Analysis examined improvements pre and post training using a weight-related communication skills self-assessment questionnaire, along with participant feedback via a feasibility questionnaire and reflective practice interviews.

RESULTS

The study was completed by 31 participants; student and practicing dietitians, nurses and doctors. Pre and post training scores showed improvement with statistical significance (p=0.001). Most participants reacted positively (97%) to using VITAL-COMS. The reflective practice interviews highlighted the neglected relationship between effective weight-related communication skills and appropriate care provided for patients living with obesity.

CONCLUSIONS

This study has shown that VITAL-COMS is a fit for purpose, innovative digital training tool and acceptable for teaching evidence-based weight-related communication skills. It has potential to enhance weight-related communication skills amongst HCPs.
Developing NavegApp: Evidence on Content Validity, Usability and Digital Ergonomics of a Novel Serious Game for Spatial Cognition Assessment. (Preprint)
Authors: Sanchez-Escudero Juan Pablo , Aguillon David , Valencia Stella , Garcia-Barrera Mauricio A. , Aguirre-Acevedo Daniel Camilo , Trujillo Natalia
Published: September 2024

BACKGROUND

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia globally. Because of ageing populations and limited access to treatments, there is a pressing need for innovative cognitive markers supporting timely preventive interventions. This study introduces NavegApp, an innovative Serious Game (SG) for assessing Spatial Cognition (SC), a potential source of preclinical cognitive markers for AD.

OBJECTIVE

This study aims to determine the content validity and usability perception of NavegApp, an innovative serious game for assessing Spatial Cognition across multiple groups of interest.

METHODS

A multi-step process integrating methodologies from software engineering, psychometrics and health measurement was implemented to validate the software. A panel of eight experts evaluated the relevance and representativeness of tasks included in the app, whereas 212 participants were enrolled to test its digital ergonomics and usability.

RESULTS

NavegApp was deemed valid and highly usable by experts and users. Tasks included in the game are representative and relevant for measuring SC components. Digital ergonomics was perceived as positive by experts and young adults. Additionally, moderate differences in usability perceptions were observed in participants with sporadic mild cognitive impairment compared to cognitively healthy participants.

CONCLUSIONS

NavegApp is a valid and user-friendly SG designed for SC assessment, crafted by merging software development and measurement properties evaluation principles. We outline a comprehensive strategy for SG development in cognitive assessment. While innovative, our approach emphasizes the crucial role of integrating psychometric validity measures from the outset of SG design.
Analysis of the political viewpoint of policy statements from professional medical organizations using ChatGPT 4.0 (Preprint)
Authors: Knudsen Ben , Madkour Amr , Cholli Preetam , Haslam Alyson , Prasad Vinay
Published: September 2024

BACKGROUND

Professional medical organizations publish policy statements that are used to impact legislation or address societal issues. Many organizations are nonpartisan, yet it is uncertain whether their policy statements balance liberal and conservative values. We determined the political viewpoint (liberal vs conservative) of policy statements from six organizations: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Surgeons (ACS), American Psychiatric Association (APA), American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the political alignment of policy statements from six influential medical organizations including: AAP, ACS, APA, ACOG, ACP, AAFP.

METHODS

Between 12/2023 – 2/2024, policy statements from the six organizations were identified and evaluated using ChatGPT 4.0, to remove bias. Each statement was pasted into a new ChatGPT session following the phrase, “Does this text align with a liberal or conservative viewpoint?” Two authors reviewed each response and categorized the statement as: liberal; probably liberal (PL); neutral; probably conservative (PC); conservative.

RESULTS

One third of policy statements were found to be aligned with a political ideology (529/1592). Among these, 516 (98%) were liberal or PL and 13 (2%) were conservative or PC. For each organization, among policy statements with a political leaning, the percentage of liberal or PL statements was: 100% – AAP; 100% – ACOG; 100% – ACS; 99% – APA; 97% – AAFP; 96% – ACP.

CONCLUSIONS

One in three policy statements from these six professional organizations are politically partisan. Among these, positions are 40-times more likely to be liberal or PL than conservative or PC. Whether or not organizations are politically neutral and seek viewpoint diversity warrants further exploration.
Personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of coconut growers
Authors: K Mohith , Narayanaswamy C
Published: September 2024

The present study to know the personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of randomly selected 120 coconut growers from Tiptur, Turuvekere, Chikkanayakanahalli and Sira taluks of Tumkur district was conducted during the year 2022-23. Overall it was found that equal number of coconut growers (42.50 %) were in the old and middle age group respectively, while significant number of coconut growers (37.50 %) were having education upto high school, two-third of coconut growers (69.16 %) were found under the category of medium family size, while two-fifth of coconut growers (40.00 %) came under big farmers category followed by 39.16 per cent under the small farmers category and more than two-fifth of coconut growers (46.66 %) possessed medium level of farming experience. Overall it was found that significant number of coconut growers (44.20 %) belonged to medium category of information seeking behaviour, more than two-fifth of coconut growers (43.33 %) came under medium category of extension participation, two-fifth of coconut growers (40.00 %) belonged to medium category of management orientation. Among the overall coconut growers, it was disclosed that significant number of coconut growers i.e., 46.67 per cent were found equally under the medium category of risk orientation, credit orientation, innovativeness. Overall it was found that slightly more than two-fifth of coconut growers (41.67 %) were having medium level of deferred gratification, significant number of coconut growers (46.67 %) belonged to medium category of scientific orientation and significant number of coconut growers (44.17 %) belonged to medium category of cosmopoliteness.
Lagunas en los mecanismos constitucionales de restricción y suspensión de derechos y garantías en México: la última secuela pendiente de la pandemia COVID-19
Authors: Latorre Rodríguez Pablo
Published: September 2024

En México la restricción y suspensión de derechos se encuentranrecogidas en el artículo 29 constitucional. Sin embargo, este artículo carece deuna ley reglamentaria que desarrolle y concrete su contenido. Por otro lado, laCPEUM incluye en su artículo 73 fracción XVI disposiciones especiales en caso deemergencia sanitaria. La pandemia generó una coyuntura inédita, ante la cual losestados implementaron medidas extraordinarias sirviéndose de instrumentosjurídicos para la creación de un marco de actuación más eficaz contra el virus. Eneste trabajo analizamos los paradigmas relativos a la restricción y suspensión dederechos y su regulación en nuestro país; para posteriormente examinar su praxisa la luz de las medidas aplicadas aproximándonos al ejemplo concreto de lapandemia COVID-19.
libre voluntad de disolver el vínculo matrimonial como manifestación del artículo primero constitucional mexicano
Authors: Marín Enríquez Oscar Efrén
Published: September 2024

la disolución del vínculo matrimonial siempre ha sido un tema sujeto al debate social y jurídico, esto debido a que es menester del Estado tutelar la estabilidad familiar, sin embargo, esto no puede ser a costa de vulnerar la libertar personal. En este trabajo se presentará un esbozo histórico de la figura jurídica del divorcio en México, para después exponer las distintas vías que existen en la normativa mexicana para decretar dicha separación, haciendo énfasis en el divorcio sin causales, modalidad que tiene sustento en los derechos humanos establecidos en nuestra Constitución. Concluimos que, el requerimiento del juzgador de acreditar una necesidad o causa para disolver el vínculo es inconstitucional, ya que esto vulnera el derecho humano al libre desarrollo, siendo suficiente para decretar dicha disolución la sola manifestación unilateral de voluntad y la solución de las demás cuestiones familiares importantes, como la custodia de los menores o los alimentos.
La jurisprudencia sobre perspectiva de derechos humanos en los procesos en que intervienen personas adultas mayores. Consideraciones al presupuesto de vulnerabilidad en procesos jurisdiccionales que involucren a personas adultas mayores
Authors: López Madrigal Verónica
Published: September 2024

La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación ha reconocido la necesidad de aplicar una perspectiva de derechos humanos en procesos jurisdiccionales que involucren a personas adultas mayores, por considerar que pueden encontrarse en situaciones de vulnerabilidad. No obstante, los tribunales deberían analizar en cada caso las condiciones particulares de la persona adulta mayor, con el objetivo de justificar el sentido de sus resoluciones, ya que la edad avanzada no constituye por sí sola una vulnerabilidad.
accidentalidad del mercado laboral argentino: relaciones entre género, actividad económica y tipo de incapacidad laboral
Authors: Sánchez-Sánchez Ana M. , Ruíz-Muñoz David , Sánchez-Sánchez Francisca J.
Published: September 2024

Introducción: La incapacidad laboral, y la consiguiente dependencia de los empleados, es uno de los desafíos más notables que se plantean actualmente dentro del ámbito laboral, debido a los costes directos e indirectos motivados por las ausencias de los trabajadores. Objetivo: Detectar posibles relaciones entre el género del trabajador y el sector económico donde desarrollan su actividad profesional, respecto a las tipologías de incapacidades laborales devengadas (permanentes o temporales) dentro del mercado laboral argentino en el año 2015. Método: Para el análisis de las variables y de sus relaciones se han empleado los modelos de elección discreta binaria, más concretamente el modelo conocido como logit, cuyo uso está ampliamente contrastado dentro del ámbito del estudio de los riesgos y accidentes laborales y de la investigación sanitaria. Resultado: Se obtiene la evidencia de que los hombres son más propensos a sufrir procesos de incapacidad permanente que las mujeres. Igualmente, se demuestra que hay determinados sectores económicos donde la probabilidad de sufrir incapacidades laborales de tipo permanente es mayor que en otros. Conclusiones: Se evidencia la necesidad de aportar una perspectiva de género en los planes de prevención de riesgos laborales.
A Comprehensive Methodology for Analysing Options Trading: Utilizing Historical Data and the Black-Scholes Model
Authors: Jafri Haya
Published: September 2024

This paper presents a systematic methodology for analysing options trading, integrating user inputs with historical stock data to facilitate informed decision-making. The process begins with the collection of user-specified stock tickers and expiration dates, followed by the retrieval of historical price data to assess past stock performance. Key components of the analysis include calculating historical volatility, fetching the option chain, and filtering options into put and call categories. The methodology employs the Black-Scholes model to estimate fair option prices, which are further evaluated by calculating expected returns. The analysis culminates in the ranking of the top three put and call options based on their expected returns, providing users with actionable insights. Additionally, the methodology incorporates visual representations of stock prices and option data, alongside calculations of option Greeks to assess risk sensitivity. This comprehensive approach empowers traders to navigate the complexities of options trading with a clear understanding of potential outcomes and associated risks.
Pelatihan Penerapan GMP Pembuatan Dodol Rumput di Desa Kedung Pandan Kecamatan Jabon
Authors: Budiandari Rahmah utami , Hudi Lukman , Prihatiningrum Andriani Eko , Sahara Zhahlya Amaldha
Published: September 2024

Purpose – The purpose of this activity is to provide knowledge and skill of Kedung Pandan Village;s people in optimizing the diversification of seaweed processed product into Dodol.
Design/methodology/approach – The implement methods includes presentation, discussions, training and mentoring programs including training on the process of making dodol and applicaton of GMP, an evaluation stage
Findings – Training activities are conducted by producing outpus such as seaweed porridge processing techniques, packaged dodol products. The evaluation results show the high desire of Kedung pandan village’s people to develop seaweed, that easy to find but innovation and creation are still needed so the product can become icon of Desa Wisata Bahari Tlocor
Originality/Value – Through this community service, we can diversify seaweed, add value added of seaweed and created a snack icon for the Desa Wisata Bahari Tlocor
Rooting and shooting of Coffea canephora stem cuttings in response to clonal chamber conditions and rooting hormone in Ghana
Authors: Mohammed Adams Latif , Kaddiri Nasim Kumodu Nanbaala , Moro Ali
Published: September 2024

Mass propagation of Coffea canephora through stem cuttings using various rooting hormones and clonal chambers is an innovative practice to hasten and mass produce planting materials of coffee for commercial production. The study was conducted to determine the rooting and shooting performance of C. canephoracuttings in response to rooting hormone and the clonal chamber using semihardwood stem cuttings. The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four treatments and replicated four times. The different treatments were: cuttings treated with hormone + propagated off clonal chambercondition), control (cuttings without hormonal treatment + propagated off clonal chamber condition), cuttings treated with hormone + propagated under clonal chamber condition), and cuttings without hormonal treatment + propagated under clonal chamber condition. Data collection started on the 8 th week after propagation and data were collected on leaf number, root number, root length and mortality of cuttings for a period of ten weeks. The study indicated that, the effect of rooting hormone on the number of roots, root length and cutting mortality was significant (p 0.05) with the exception of the number of newly developed leaves. More so, the clonal chamber had a significant effect on the number of leaves, root number and root length as well as mortality (p 0.05). The cuttings treated with rooting hormone propagated under clonal chamber conditions significantly improved the number of roots, root length, number of leaves with the least mortality. However, cuttings propagated off the clonal chamber conditions had the highest mortality, least root number, least root length and least leaf number. Therefore, it is recommended that the ideal treatment for C. canephora cuttings for mass propagation is to treat cuttings with rooting hormone and propagated under clonal chamber condition.
A comprehensive study on the livelihood implications of transitioning from cocoa to rubber plantation in Ghana
Authors: Busia Joseph Oppong , Amankwah Kwadwo , Appiah Patrick , Tham-Agyekum Enoch Kwame , Bakang John-Eudes Andivi
Published: September 2024

The study, conducted in Manso Amenfi, Western Region, Ghana, explored the livelihood implications of transitioning from cocoa to rubber plantations. Using a cross-sectional survey with 384 participants, data revealed a decline in cocoa production levels. The socioeconomic factors that influence farmers’ land use shift behaviour were age, household size, being a household head, farm size, educational level, access extension and labour availability. The knowledge factor that was ranked first as influencing farmers shift behaviour was high price of rubber while the behavioural factor was the farmers’ personal belief that rubber plantation will do well than cocoa. The farmers agreed that rubber plantation has effect on their livelihood. The study recommends interventions to make cocoa cultivation more profitable, addressing concerns like low prices, pests, diseases, and soil fertility, emphasizing the need for support from agricultural extension officers, the Ghana Cocoa Board, and the government.
Infância, saúde e corpo em uma abordagem antropológica na educação infantil
Authors: Santos Beatriz Brandão dos , Costa Lenine Bandeira da
Published: September 2024

Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar os elementos fundamentais da Infância, Saúde e Corpo em uma abordagem antroplógica ao considerar a criança pequena ativa, produtora de significados e práticas culturais e não apenas como uma receptora passiva de cultura. A metodologia desenvolvida foi de abordagem qualitativa e participativa, com formação de roda de conversas e associação livre de palavras. com as profissionais de educação e com as crianças pequenas em uma creche do município de Duque de Caxias. A análise de dados foi pautada na metodologia do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo, em conversa com a Teoria das Representações Sociais. Foi evidenciado que a perspectiva antropológica favoreceu a compreensão de que as crianças pequenas sempre têm algo a dizer a respeito de conceitos e poder-se-á conhecê-las em sua profundidade.
Subversão do sexo, ideologia de gênero e consequências do Movimento Feminista: uma análise de pautas antifeministas
Authors: Melo Milena Rodrigues Carneiro de
Published: September 2024

O antifeminismo enquanto um backlash ao Movimento Feminista, busca criar narrativas que desqualificam as lutas do movimento. O objetivo desse artigo foi visualizar e analisar pautas da narrativa antifeminista, adentrando nesse campo complexo, de modo a trazer pontos da moralidade tradicional junto ao backlash que fortalecem o antifeminismo, e para além, demonstrar como a narrativa antifeminista presente no capítulo 4 do livro antifeminista “Feminismo: perversão e subversão” traz pautas importantes para compreender e combater essa narrativa. Para alcançar tal objetivo, utilizamos o procedimento metodológico de uma análise interpretativa, em que criamos índices de análise. Temos como algumas considerções como tais narrativas buscam acabar com o movimento feminista de modo a diminuir o social e fortalecer um processo de enfraquecimento democratico, além de disseminar um ódio ao Movimento Feminista com base em pautas antigênero.
A Study of Basso Continuo Instrumentation in Baroque Cello Sonatas With a Focus on Jean-Baptiste Barrière
Authors: Evan Buttar
Published: September 2024

Main Subject: Baroque Cello

Research Coach: Johannes Boer

Research Question: What basso continuo instrumentation possibilities exist in baroque cello sonatas, and specifically in the works of Jean-Baptiste Barrière?

Basso continuo is an essential part of baroque music, but the instrumentation of it is often ignored or dismissed. All too often, modern performers play with harpsichord and cello without considering the other options. This research paper investigates what the most common instrumentations for the basso continuo were in France and Italy, as well as what exceptions were made. The goal of the paper is to have a better understanding as to what instrument combinations can be added to baroque cello sonatas, and specifically to those of Jean-Baptiste Barrière. This composer was chosen because of the inventiveness, virtuosity, and unique nature of his music. Since there is little evidence relating directly to the cello, the continuo groups in orchestral, chamber, and solo music are investigated. The sources used include treatises and instrument manuals from the time, indications in the scores, records of basso continuo groups in concerts, and the opinions of present scholars on the subject. This information is then applied to practice through a series of instrumentation experiments on sonatas of Barrière, with a second cello, double bass, archlute, guitar, and harpsichord. Recorded samples of this process are supplied and discussed. The presentation will include an overview and discussion of the sources and evidence found, and live musical demonstrations will be presented by myself and colleagues.
The violin-type fingering and oblique left hand position in the history of cello technique
Authors: Paulina Ptak
Published: September 2024

Name: Paulina Ptak

Main Subject: Baroque Cello

Research Coaches: Maggie Urquhart, Job ter Haar
Title of Research: The violin-type fingering and oblique left hand position in the history
of cello technique

Research Question: what were the possible reasons for the application of diatonic
fingerings and violin-like left hand position in the history of the cello technique?

Summary of Results:
Before 1800, cellists did not have a consistent manner for fingering scales with the left
hand. From the origins of the instrument till the beginning of the nineteenth century
different systems were used. One of the styles seemed to be more identified with the
violin than with the cello technique. It was represented by fingering and left hand
position, different than used today. By looking at the history of development of the cello
fingering I will try to answer questions about possible reasons of applying violin-like
fingering on the cello. I will examine methods employed on early bass instruments, much
debated system proposed by Corrette, and Lanzetti’s and Baumgartner’s approach which
transitions the diatonic and chromatic systems. I will see how Romberg and others, even
though fingering had evolved to the final level, applied oblique violin-like, left hand
position until the beginnings of twentieth century. Finally I will look at the examples
from cello repertoire which contain fingerings, and I will analyze them in terms of the
system used and possible ways of execution.

Biography:
Paulina Ptak embarked upon her musical education in two of the most important Polish
musical centres – the city of Cracow and Wroclaw. After completing her Master’s
degree, she decided to specialise in baroque, classical and early romantic repertoire
performed on authentic instruments. Her motivation to a historically informed approach
was inspired by the unique timbre of period instruments. Currently she studies baroque
cello for a Master’s degree with Jaap ter Linden. Paulina is interested in the history of
cello technique from eighteenth until twentieth century.
What is the word
Authors: Renee Jonker
Published: September 2024

What than is music? – Music is language.’ Composer Anton Webern was quite outspoken in 1932 : 'A human being wants to express thoughts in this language, but not a thought that can be transferred into an idea, but only into another musical thought.’ Almost sixty years later composer Wolfgang Rihm isn’t sure whether music is a language but states in his speech 'Was ‘sagt’ Musik/ What does music ‘say’?:’ if music is saying something, than the first what is addressed to us is: speak! Music wants to make us speak. That’s what music says!’

That raises the question whether music can be referential or carry meaning just as language can. A question that has made many speak and filled libraries of studies. Cognitive psychologist Aniruddh D. Patel writes in 2008: ‘A natural place to turn for help in defining musical meaning is the work of music theorists and philosophers of aesthetics’. After summing up a dozen publications on the topic since Webern made his statement, Patel reports: ‘No consensus has emerged from these writings for a definition of musical meaning.’

There is a lot of evidence in linguistics that qualities attributed to musicality contribute to language being the carrier of meaning. So what about the other way around? Can language help to understand what is experienced as meaningful in music?

Language itself is an indicator that qualities inherent to language are often given to music. In German the word Interpret is used for instrumentalists performing music. The Dutch language has the word zeggingskracht that attributes power to music. 'Zegging-’ stems from the verb zeggen (to say), ‘kracht’ means power. Zeggingskracht was one of the three criteria to assess the work of composers by the Fund for the Creation of Music (Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst ) in The Netherlands. When the power to speak is inhibited and people stammer or lose their speech suffering from aphasia, it has been said that “only music, can do the calling.” And it’s almost a cliché to say that music can express what can’t be given words.

Music is not a language but often sounds like one. What do musicians that are ‘speaking’ that music have to say about meaning in music, singing, performing or creating what composer Louis Andriessen describes as ‘talkative’ music? Or the stammering that composer György Kurtág calls his mother language? How do musicians give words to those moments when their music does the talking?

What is the word is the last text that Samuel Beckett completed at the end of his life when through a stroke he periodically suffered from the disability to finds words, commonly diagnosed as aphasia. The Irish author inspired many to explore the zeggingskracht of music. Precise as he was, Beckett left out a question mark in the title, both in the original French version of Comment dire and in his English translation. That the title of Samuel Beckett’s last text is not posing a question but may provide us with an answer, is the hypothesis of this research.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Jazz Performance
Authors: Priscilla Nokoe
Published: September 2024

This research is an exploration in how other performing arts disciplines, namely Dance/Movement and Theater, can be used and implemented in a jazz performance to possibly create a interdisciplinary performance.
Divertimento Sextet
Authors: Robert Franenberg
Published: September 2024

In 2000, I took part in a project performing all of W.A. Mozart’s (1756-1791) Salzburg divertimentos for strings and winds in the quaint town of Delft in the Netherlands. In attempting to keep true to authentic performance practices we played on period instruments with one player to a part and most significantly the bass line was to be performed solely on the double bass; thus, no cello and no cello/double bass doubling of the bass line.1 Some of my colleagues involved in this project found this to be quite a ‘radical’ idea, for in chamber music settings many musicians are accustomed to the cello as the bass instrument of choice, and depending on the repertoire, a double bass might double the line, but double bass alone…impossible! Indeed most recordings I have heard of these pieces have been performed by a chamber orchestra or as chamber music with the bass line performed by a cello and double bass.
"An Actor Prepares": A musician's approach to a selection of techniques by Konstantin Stanislavski
Authors: André Teixeira
Published: September 2024

The belief that imagination’s engagement and emotional connection with what I play enhance my performance propelled me to do this research. However, these are not systematically integrated in instrumental practice. Thus, it seemed to me that the twentieth century theatre director Konstantin Stanislavski’s ‘system’ would be the perfect basis for such a quest.
The starting point were acting techniques from his first book "An Actor Prepares": the "given circumstances", imagination-related ("supposed circumstances", “inner visions”, "magic if”) – and emotion-related ("emotion memory", "sensation memory", "surroundings"). Partly supported by existing literature, these techniques were linked with the instrumentalists' work and tested out in a self-case study through three interventions.
The process consisted of making video recordings of the 'before' and the actual interventions, which were guided by the filling out of intervention forms designed by me. The techniques were applied on three distinct piano passages of Richard Strauss’ melodrama for narrator and piano "Enoch Arden". Furthermore, I did interventions’ reports to provide more palpable insights about the experience, namely the effects of each technique on the performer.
The outcome was evaluated through a questionnaire filled in by a group of listeners, comprising musicians and non-musicians, and by me.
The responses generally show that the techniques were effective. However, the recordings were perceived as very similar. Also, the listeners’ perception sometimes differed from mine.
Nevertheless, the reports allow us to conclude that these techniques might affect the performer’s focus, creativity, self-confidence, knowledge about the works and also self-knowledge.
The singing Performer: Who am I on stage when not singing?
Authors: Julia Pallanch  , Heloisa Amaral
Published: September 2024

Approaching Kunstlieder with the background as a jazz interpreter, has challenged me to find, not only, my interpretation of the lieder/songs but to also find my interpretation of my role(s) as the singer on stage between classical music and jazz scenes. Through performing music, the chosen body of work, we are not only repeating and interpreting the music but repeating and interpreting ways of performing it. This research focuses on the role(s) of the singer on stage and the moments between the songs; the open space between one piece of music and another that offers the possibility to communicate and connect with the audience. What happens in these moments? What stories do we tell and how do we tell them? What do I communicate with, through, in - and outside of the lied, the song, the piece of music. What do I perform in the open space between between the songs - my self(s)?
La Basse de Violon
Authors: Blanca Leticia Martín Muñoz
Published: September 2024

About this exposition

Nowadays we can find a vast amount of information about the history of the cello. But do we know anything of its larger ancestor? What was its purpose in the music scene in France in the 17th century? And why did it disappear?

Little attention has been paid to the basse de violon, an instrument of great importance before the arrival of the cello.

In my presentation, I will discuss these questions as well as other matters that concern the basse de violon, starting with what is it, going through its development, its role as a solo instrument, and as the bass of the ensembles, and finishing with the reasons for its decay and ultimately complete disappearance in France.

Also, as part of my artistic presentation, I will base my conclusions by using videos of my experimentations on a surviving basse de violon from 1715 and a cello from the 19th century.
The Significance of Chinese Art Songs by Huang Tzu (1904 - 1938)
Authors: Cho Hang Chu, Edmond
Published: September 2024

Chinese art song, a type of Chinese New Music, was a musical genre referring to the songs composed particularly in the 1920s. It is undeniable that it was a product of the real contact and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures.

Imagine listening to music like Schubert or Puccini, you may suddenly realise that the language is not German or Italian, but an exotic language (Mandarin, also mixed with different Chinese dialects). Chinese art songs indeed had such characteristics. Its appearance was epoch-making. Before the 19th century, the gate of Chinese traditional culture was closed and self-sufficient, but due to the invasion of Western powers, this gate soon collapsed. Western culture also swept China along with the military trend in the early 20th century, causing earth-shaking changes in China, in which Western music was also introduced into China. Some intellectuals enlightened by modern thoughts and knowledge believed that in addition to learning western military and technology, they should also absorb their philosophy and culture, so that China could rise in all directions and catch up with Western powers.

The theme of this research revolves around one of the intellectuals (composers) of this period, Huang Tzu (1904-1938) who challenged and responded to the culture shock through composing Chinese New Music. After studying in the United States in 1926, he returned to Shanghai, China. Like the intellectuals at that time, in addition to being proficient in various fields like science, he also dabbled in music. Many of Huang Tzu’s music revolved around the concept of "nationality". It refers to an approach: borrowing Western compositional techniques to highlight the values of traditional Chinese aesthetics.

This research did not aim at describing the characteristics of music or literature in Chinese art songs itself. Yet, it finally allowed me to discover more about how intellectuals dealt with issues of cultural exchange between the East and the West a hundred years ago.

What would be the effects if Western music elements, such as harmony, form, techniques and musical instruments were added to the Chinese traditional music language and habits? From a cultural perspective, what significance did this incur?
ECOGNOSIS: Ecological Awareness in Multimedia Composition
Authors: Richard Hughes
Published: September 2024

This paper is concerned with ecological awareness in multimedia composition often with the use of data as a compositional tool. It covers the philosophy of ecological awareness I wish to represent in my work and the aesthetic principles used to portray it. The philosophy is largely based on Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology with influence from other writers and artists. The reader will be guided through my methodologies of multimedia composition (acoustic, electronic and visual), in four different works. The motivation behind this research has come from wanting to engage with environmentalism not just through writing and individual actions but through art and how understanding the importance of perception of the environment can change our behaviour to it.
Aimpathy
Authors: Amit Yungman
Published: September 2024

Much research has been done to better understand the emotional experience of music; from the philosophical, artistic, psychological, and statistical approaches. In this research we conduct a cross-domain experiment based on those four disciplines, to further understand the factors that influence the emotional perception of music; and in particular the difference between the artist’s emotional conception and the audience’s perception.
In the experiment we train a novel model of an Artificial Neural Network, to predict the perceived emotion from a short musical phrase. We then feed the machine curated input, which simulates artistic choices, to explore its most significant factors in determining the perceived emotions.
In the conclusion we describe the results, as well as the possible follow-ups to the experiment, such as an emotional expression training tool for musicians.
Camilo Arias - Master Research Last Sand
Authors: Camilo Arias
Published: September 2024

While the commercial musical stream of "Latin American Baroque" has been associated with musical cross-breeding, the study of the colonial repertoire that composes it documents quite the opposite: the absence of non-European musical features. By accepting the impossibility to find the written "Mestizo Baroque", this research chooses to "re-imagine it" from orality. Taking the Fandango musical family as a framework, this research enters into playful dialogues between the XVIII century European fandango and its surviving folklore counterparts: the Mexican Son Huasteco and the Colombo-Venezuelan Joropo. Through analysis and transcription of oral sources, style comparison, arrangement, and improvisation this research aims to create a musical product that reclaims the mixed-raced identities, erased from colonial archives, in today´s Early Music industry.
The use of the horn in the late orchestral works by Robert Schumann
Authors: Márton Kóródi
Published: September 2024

When I played a Schumann piece, Genoveva Overture, for the first time, I was wondering, because there were Ventilhorn and Waldhorn parts. I could not imagine what his idea was when he wrote for four horns, but still used two different kinds of the same instrument. Did he want to express something with this set-up? Beside this, I did not understand why he, and other romantic composers, use so much transposition when they had already a completely chromatic instrument.
As I started to get to know and play the natural horn, it was getting clearer what his intention could have been. Why he used an ‘ancient’ instrument, though he could compose for four chromatic horns. This made me even more interested, and I also got more questions and hypotheses about the topic, for what I wanted to find an answer.
In my research, I tried to get to know the use of the horn in the middle of the 19th century. I wanted to get familiar with the contemporaries’ imagination about the old and new instrument, and with the way how they used them. Then, with this knowledge, I analysed Schumann’s orchestral works, especially the horn parts, and tried to find out if the results are matching with the background research.
My aim was too, show the horn players, that the romantic horn playing is not only about the ‘holy’ valve horn, but something more complex and colourful.
With trumpets?
Authors: Fabio Bonizzoni
Published: September 2024

A good deal of mystery still surrounds some aspects of Arcangelo Corelli's work. Firstly, although he was recognised as the main composer of Sinfonie in Rome around 1700, all of his repertoire of this genre, with the exception of one, seems to have disappeared; secondly, none of his survived orchestral scores contains evidence of the well documented practice of using winds, trumpets in particular, in conjunction with strings. To fill these gaps, speculations have tried to identify, amongst Corelli's works, not only the ones that might have originated as Sinfonie, but also those that might have included trumpets in their original form. This research moves along the same path but sets a slightly different goal: on the one hand it considers that it is virtually impossible to determine if any of Corelli’s survived compositions were originally conceived as Sinfonie with trumpets. On the other hand, it argues that through a study of Lulier's Santa Beatrice d'Este oratorio - a work that preserves the only genuine Corelli's Sinfonia that has survived - and through a comparative analysis of the two Handel's Roman oratorios, it is possible to approach closely the soundscape of Corelli's Sinfonie con trombe. To achieve that goal, in accordance with contemporary Roman examples, newly composed trumpet parts have been integrated into some movements of three concertos from Opus 6. The outcome can be listened in the audio-video material part of this paper. Whether the addition of trumpets on top of a string-only movement could have been improvised, and not planned beforehand with written parts, is open to further speculation.

keywords: Corelli, trumpet, instrumentation, Concerti Grossi, Roman Sinfonie, Research by teachers of the Royal Conservatoire
Reseach: Caprice Basque, P. Sarasate
Authors: Mikel Ibanez
Published: September 2024

Name: Mikel Ibañez Santervas

Main subject: Violin

Main Subject teacher: Peter Brunt

Research supervisor: Herman Jeurissen.

Title of the research: Caprice Basque op.24 by Pablo Sarasate. Way of being interpreted.

Research question: Why did Pablo Sarasate compose the first dance of the Caprice Basque in 3/4 bar?

Summary of results:

The first dance of the "Caprice Basque" op. 24 by Pablo Sarasate is composed in 3/4 although it is a traditional dance from Basque Country which is usually played in 5/8. The piece was composed in 1880 when the quintuple bars were not still common at the classical occidental musical language but they were beginning to be spread little by little. After having analyzed all the documentation about it, my conclusion is that in the folkloric music often the musicians do not play what is written in the score really precisely. Sometimes what is written in the score is just an approximation of what it sounds. Is at the second half of the XIX, when, the folkloric music gets analyzed by expert musicians, that we start to see the relation between what we listen and what we read in the scores. This is exactly the case of Pablo Sarasate. He knew about the 5/8 bar when he composed the Caprice Basque ( because of the geographical closeness of Pamplona (his hometown) and the Basque Country, and because there were in the Basque tradition some written 5/8 “Zortziko” examples as the one we have seen of 1813 by Antonia de Mazarredo or her sister Juana de Mazarredo) but despite he wrote it in 3/4, it is completely sure that he would interpret it in the traditional way. Attached we can see a transcription of the piece in 5/8 which shows how the "Caprice Basque" op. 24 should sound.

Biography:

Mikel Ibañez, violinist. Born in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) in 1989. He began his violin studies at de age of 6 at his hometown’s conservatory with the teacher Agustí Coma Alabert. Throughout his ten first years of studies, he complemented the violin lessons with his main teacher having some master classes with other teachers like: Víctor Parra, Christiam Ifrim, Joaquín Palomares and Keiko Wataya. Once he was graduated in 2006, Mikel was accepted in MUSIKENE to study bachelor with the prestigious Japanese teacher Keiko Wataya. He obtained the bachelor degree with distinction in 2012. Then, searching for a technical and musical development, Mikel moved to The Hague after being accepted at the Royal Conservatorium of the same city to study with Peter Brunt, and got the bachelor degree in 2014. Currently, he studies second year Master at the Royal Conservatorium of The Hague with Peter Brunt.
Fingering of the Viennese Double Bass
Authors: Feng Zhou
Published: September 2024

ame: Zhou Feng
Main Subject: Violone
Research supervisor(s): Kate Clark
Title of Research:
Fingering of the Viennese Double Bass
Research Question:
What was the historical fingering of the Viennese double bass? Which different effects it would have on different fingerings? What’s the modern solution of fingerings and its influence?
Summary of Results:
The Viennese Double Bass was a dominant type of double bass used in the Classical Period in Vienna. It usually has 5 string, tuned in F1-A1-D-F#-A, with frets. Unfortunately, we can barely find any historical material that was written down on the fingering of this instrument. Through the analysis of the history of fingerings on various double basses documented in historical methods, I can find the pattern of fingering that is often related to the tuning intervals of the instrument. The Viennese double bass was possibly using a '1-2-4' fingering system. In my research paper, I give the suggestions of specific fingerings, including basic fingerings (scales, arpeggios), exception fingerings (chordal fingering, octave fingering). For octaves, I find the possible solutions by using basic, chordal, extension fingerings and shifting strategy. With excerpts of solo works and orchestral parts, I give further explanation of the fingerings. Finally, I try to point out that the modern tuning of the Viennese double bass could cause alteration of the historical fingerings. Furthermore, it would also change the timbre.
Biography:
Master student of Violone (Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag)
Artist Diploma of Double Bass (China Central Conservatory, Beijing)
Master Degree of Journalism (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Engaging the Audience: a Matter beyond Music?
Authors: Gustavo Abela Cruz
Published: September 2024

Despite knowing that music and emotions have a lot to do with each other, sometimes it is hard to articulate which relationship they have. Since the emotional impact seems to be one of the biggest appeals for an audience, do we, the musicians (specifically the performers), pay and draw enough attention to it? After reviewing the relevant literature about the processing of emotions, I came across the philosophical approaches of emotions in and through music by Peter Kivy, Jerrold Levinson, and Stephen Davies, proposals that could serve as inspirations for an audience and for performers.
Then, I decided to carry out a series of experimental sessions to test the impact of these three approaches, as well as the performer's role, and components that could also affect a performance, such as set-ups, musical manipulations, or what I have called 'extramusical' items or elements. In addition to my research question “How can a performer affect or manipulate the emotional engagement of an audience?”, I sought to explore another inquiry. Is engaging more with the public nowadays strictly a musical matter?