Music and Science Symposium: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
10:00am, Saturday 2 December 2017, Lecture Room, Department of Music, Durham University
We are delighted to announce the next Music and Science Symposium, a one-day event held at the Department of Music, at Durham University. We are honoured to have with us three guest speakers, including a lecture from Prof. William F. Thompson, and talks from Prof. Marcel Zentner and Dr. Hauke Egermann, amongst other expert contributions from our department. All are welcome to attend.
Schedule
10:00 – Opening and Introduction to Day
10:05 – 10:35 – Tuomas Eerola: Empirical Musicology and Non-Western Cultures: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
10:35 – 11:05 – Hauke Egermann: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music-Induced Emotion
11:05 – 11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 – William Forde Thompson: Towards an Integrative Theory of Cross-Cultural Music Cognition
12:15 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 – Martin Clayton: Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis in Music Performance
14:00 – 14:30 – Kelly Jakubowski: Studying Interpersonal Musical Entrainment from Audio-visual Recordings: Corpus and Perceptual Studies
14:30 – 14:45 – Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:15 – Laura Leante: Listening to Ragas: Imagery, Meaning and North Indian Audiences
15:15 – 15:45 – Marcel Zentner: How Can We Measure Musical Ability Across Cultures?
15:45 – 16:30 – Panel Session
16:30 – Concluding Remarks
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Past Events
Music and Science Symposium
10:00am, 31 March 2017, Lecture Room, Department of Music, Durham University
Schedule
10:00 Opening and Introduction to Day
10:10 – 10:45 Tuomas Eerola: ‘Hormonal Correlates of Being Moved by Sad Music’
10:45 – 11:20 Jonna Vuoskoski: ‘Pleasurable Sadness Indicates States of Being Moved’
11:20 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 David Huron: ‘On the Evolution of Sadness and Grief’
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 13:50 Martin Clayton: ‘Interpersonal Entrainment in Musical Performance’
13:50 – 14:25 Kelly Jakubowski: ‘Melodic and Temporal Aspects of Involuntary Musical Imagery’
14:25 – 14:40 Coffee break
14:40 – 15:15 Scott Bannister: ‘Underlying Mechanisms of Musically-Induced Chills’
15:15 – 15:50 Julian Céspedes-Guevara: ‘Elements for a Constructionist Theory of Induction of Emotions by Music’
15:50 Concluding Remarks and Thanks
