MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of music, naturally developing in humans, engaging perceptual, emotional, and motor processes, and in turn relying on multiple cognitive functions such as memory and attention. Rhythm is also closely linked to music reward, as musical pleasure arises from making and resolving predictions about temporal structures. However, this relationship remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap,…

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Book · DOAB

In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to Cuba, to Trinidad, to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to dance halls of west Louisiana and the great churches of Harlem.” In this …

Full text · Open Library

220 p. ; 23 cm

Image · DPLA

This writing paper was from the personal stationery of Francis L. York who was the organist at Christ Church in Detroit. The paper has a watermark that shows a monogram emblem (unreadable) and the word, "Ledger." It is slightly yellowed and the sender's address, "235 Hancock Avenue West," is printed in black text at the top. The 10-page letter was handwritten in black ink and the text has been transcribed as follows…