Browsing by Subject "music"
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(2013-06-04)Department: PsychologyWilliams syndrome (WS) is a genetic, neurodevelopmental disorder that has been of interest to music cognition researchers because of its characteristic auditory sensitivities and emotional responsiveness to music. However, ...
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(2007-10-03)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is an historical and critical study of sound as spiritual power in Qawwali, the Islamic devotional music of the Chishtiyya Sufi order of South Asia. My intention is to show that music and religion are, ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: GermanGERMAN False Dichotomies: Echoes and Foresight in Works by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Hugo Wolf Andrea Weatherman Kikkert Dissertation under the direction of Professor Barbara Hahn Inspired by the Apollonian and ...
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Joint Music Making and Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers: Lyrics, Vocal-Motor Imitation, & the Beat (2018-03-29)Department: PsychologyResearch has shown that active musical engagement promotes prosocial behavior in preschool-age children under some conditions but not others. The current study consists of two experiments designed to examine preschool-age ...
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(2013-03-11)Department: ReligionMusics and the Generosity of God appeals to French theological phenomenology, a re-translation of Heidegger’s concept of "Ge-Stell," and an analysis of musical compositions from the postwar avant-garde to critique the ...
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(2008-12-29)Department: ReligionThis dissertation reconsiders the importance of the preacher, the music, and the frenzy (a construction introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois in his 1903 classic, The Souls of Black Folk) as core concepts for understanding African ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-22)Using prosodic, facial, and musical stimuli, this study probed the extent of emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenic patients. Difficulties in the perception of emotional material have been well documented in the ...
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(2022)This spreadsheet contains transcriptions, annotations, and other metadata for the 6 notebooks in the Rissi Palmer Collection (MSS.1026 - https://collections.library.vanderbilt.edu/repositories/2/resources/2063). The notebooks ...
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(2008-12-06)Department: EnglishThis dissertation examines the significance of noise for modernist culture. Noise functions as both a literal and figurative presence in the aural culture of the early twentieth century: as the sounds produced by modern ...