How Shazam works
I’ve always had the vaguest of guesses about how the amazing Shazam works, but now I know, thanks to this article from Slate, That Tune Named. Even better, this article…
The Lost Chord
The Lost Chord is a nice page about the famous Victorian song. All the words are there, along with some truly atrocious pictures from the period to illustrate the song.…
Hurrah, this site is now Zotero enabled
Zotero is one of the most remarkable bits of free technology out there, in my view. For anyone who’s ever had to create a bibliography, it saves hours and hours,…
Latest research in music perception & cognition
If there’s one area of music research that really grabs me, it’s music perception & cognition. With astonishing speed, considering it only took place at the end of August, the…
Musicality: not such a big question after all?
It’s very common in the dance education world to denigrate the word ‘musicality’, because it’s a woolly term. Or people look at you in a knowing way and say ‘What…
‘Social loss’, dance notation and Josephine Baker
What do Glaser & Strauss’s grounded theory study The Social Loss of Dying Patients, dance notation and Josephine Baker have in common? Well, I’m making a few conceptual leaps here,…