Micheline Lesaffre - The Power Of Music

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This book is about the power of music, that is, the effect<br />of music on our emotive, cognitive, motor, and social<br />abilities. Where does this power come from? What is<br />the basis of this power? What mechanisms support this<br />power? Can technology enhance this power? How can<br />we apply this in education, health, sports, and other<br />application domains?<br /><br />Answering these and related questions is the central<br />goal of the research that is currently conducted at<br />IPEM, the institute for systematic musicology at Ghent<br />University, Belgium. IPEM’s mission is to provide a<br />scientifi c foundation for musical and technological<br />innovation in the cultural/creative sector.<br />With contributions of seven experts in different fi elds<br />such as musicology, ergonomics, acoustics, physics,<br />and movement science, this book reveals information<br />that is less publicly known. The authors discuss topics as<br />varied as basic concepts of musical embodiment, music<br />performance, mediation technology as an extension of<br />the body, social interaction in music, music education,<br />health, rehabilitation and lifestyle, and fundamentals of<br />music and movement.<br /><br />MICHELINE LESAFFRE has been<br />working as a researcher in<br />systematic musicology at IPEM at<br />Ghent University since 1998. She<br />holds a PhD in Musicology about<br />user-centered approaches to Music<br />Information Retrieval and issues<br />of the perception of high-level<br />semantics of music. Her research<br />results were published in major<br />international peer-reviewed journals.<br /><br />MARC LEMAN is ‘Methusalem’<br />research professor in systematic<br />musicology and director of IPEM<br />at Ghent University. He has<br />a background in musicology,<br />philosophy and computing. He is<br />a pioneer in the epistemological<br />and methodological foundations<br />of computational modeling and<br />embodied music cognition. He<br />published more than 250 articles,<br />and books.<br />