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Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema (2009)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2009). Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema. In Sound and music in film and visual media: an overview (375 - 387). Continuum

Explores the ways in which classical Hollywood cinema used music, among other components, to encode the presence and aura of women and, in so doing, perpetuated entrenched models of female sexuality.Examples are provided from David Lean's 1945 film B... Read More about Women through music in golden age Hollywood cinema.

The development of film musicology: an overview (2009)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2009). The development of film musicology: an overview. In Sound and music in film and visual media : an overview (725 - 738). Continuum

Surveys some of the contributions to film music scholarship by musicologists who have, in the process, absorbed film music into the realm of traditional musicology.Among the scholars mentioned are David Neumeyer, James Buhler, Claudia Gorbman, Roy Pr... Read More about The development of film musicology: an overview.

An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
King, A. An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice. Presented at 126th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2009

This paper examines the use of a Learning Technology Interface (LTI) to support the completion of a recording workbook with audio examples over a 10-week period. The VLE provided contingent support to studio users for technical problems encountered i... Read More about An expert in absentia: a case study for using technology to support recording studio practice.

Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert, eds, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-520-25069-7 (hb), 978-0-520-25070-3 (pb) (2009)
Journal Article
Binns, A. (2009). Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert, eds, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-520-25069-7 (hb), 978-0-520-25070-3 (pb). Twentieth-century music, 6(1), 122-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1478572210000101

Collaborative learning in the music studio (2008)
Journal Article
King, A. (2008). Collaborative learning in the music studio. Music education research, 10(3), 423-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613800802280167

This article presents some of the findings from a mixed-methods case study that investigated collaborative learning for pairs of higher education students working in a music studio on a drum kit recording. A stratified purposive sampling technique wa... Read More about Collaborative learning in the music studio.

Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai (2008)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2008). Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai. In CineMusic?: constructing the film score (127 - 140). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Examines Hong Kong art cinema, especially the work of film director Wong Kar-Wai, as a means of illustrating a use of music in film that puts a strain on the distinctions between diegetic music and its authoritative other, the non-diegetic, which hav... Read More about Desiring the diegesis: music and self-seduction in the films of Wong Kar Wai.

Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts (2008)
Journal Article
Elsdon, P. (2008). Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts. Jazz Perspectives, 2(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/17494060801949000

This article outlines an approach to analysing Keith Jarrett's solo improvisations. I explore an approach based on topical theory, suggesting that Jarrett seems to employ a range of recognisable styles as a means of creating formal architecture. Usin... Read More about Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts.

Downscaling of rain gauge time series by multiplicative beta cascade (2007)
Journal Article
Baxter, P. D., & Paulson, K. S. (2007). Downscaling of rain gauge time series by multiplicative beta cascade. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 112(D9), Article ARTN D09105. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007333

This paper develops a downscaling algorithm capable of producing ensembles of rain rate time series, with integration times as short as 10 s, consistent with a time series of rain rates with integration times as long as 6 hours. The algorithm is base... Read More about Downscaling of rain gauge time series by multiplicative beta cascade.

Supporting gestures: Breathing in piano performance (2006)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2006). Supporting gestures: Breathing in piano performance. In A. Gritten, & E. King (Eds.), Music and Gesture (142-164). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091006

Existing research provides valuable insight into the importance of breathing for music performers and its function in supporting instrumentalists. The study of pianists’ breathing is perhaps a less obvious choice of subject than breathing by singers... Read More about Supporting gestures: Breathing in piano performance.

The roles of student musicians in quartet rehearsals (2006)
Journal Article
King, E. C. (2006). The roles of student musicians in quartet rehearsals. Psychology of music, 34(2), 262-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735606061855

This study focuses on collaboration between student musicians in a wind quartet, saxophone quartet and string quartet. Devised as an explorative investigation using observation and interview methods, the roles of student musicians are defined within... Read More about The roles of student musicians in quartet rehearsals.

Strategies of ensemble practice (2004)
Book Chapter
King, E., & Davidson, J. (2004). Strategies of ensemble practice. In A. Williamon (Ed.), Musical Excellence: Strategies and Techniques to Enhance Performance (105-22). Oxford University Press

Ensemble Performance (2002)
Book Chapter
King, E. (2002). Ensemble Performance. In J. Rink (Ed.), Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (153-167). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811739.012

Ensemble performance involves musical and social interaction between a group of performers. The term ‘ensemble’ derives from the French for ‘together’, and it defines the seemingly infinite array of musical performances involving more than one person... Read More about Ensemble Performance.

Music in Shakespeare
Data
Wilson, C. Music in Shakespeare. [Data]

This website attempts to identify every music reference in context in each play and in a number of poems where they occur. Music in Shakespeare is a wide-ranging subject embracing terms and phrases of many differing kinds and definitions. For the pur... Read More about Music in Shakespeare.