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    Family-centered music therapy in the home environment: Promoting interpersonal engagement between children with autism spectrum disorder and their parents
    Thompson, G (Oxford University Press, 2012-01-01)
    Family-centered practice is a widespread approach guiding how early intervention services support families with children with special needs such as autism spectrum disorder. An important feature of this support is its provision in natural settings such as the home environment. Ultimately, family-centered practitioners endeavor to embed therapeutic approaches into the child's daily routines so that they can be facilitated in part by the family. This approach is particularly useful with young children with autism spectrum disorder as a way of promoting interpersonal engagement and therefore the development of early social and communication skills. A model for applying family-centered practice to music therapy methods is discussed through reflections on practice and case examples.
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    Painter's Eye
    Kim, S (Sunnyside Records, 2012)
    The beauty of southern landscapes of South Korea captured by Korean contemporary classical painting and poetry by Sun Doo Kim takes on a new life as contemporary musical compositions by Sunny Kim.
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    The Sound Sensation of Apical Electric Stimulation in Cochlear Implant Recipients with Contralateral Residual Hearing
    Lazard, DS ; Marozeau, J ; McDermott, HJ ; Malmierca, MS (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2012-06-19)
    BACKGROUND: Studies using vocoders as acoustic simulators of cochlear implants have generally focused on simulation of speech understanding, gender recognition, or music appreciation. The aim of the present experiment was to study the auditory sensation perceived by cochlear implant (CI) recipients with steady electrical stimulation on the most-apical electrode. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Five unilateral CI users with contralateral residual hearing were asked to vary the parameters of an acoustic signal played to the non-implanted ear, in order to match its sensation to that of the electric stimulus. They also provided a rating of similarity between each acoustic sound they selected and the electric stimulus. On average across subjects, the sound rated as most similar was a complex signal with a concentration of energy around 523 Hz. This sound was inharmonic in 3 out of 5 subjects with a moderate, progressive increase in the spacing between the frequency components. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: For these subjects, the sound sensation created by steady electric stimulation on the most-apical electrode was neither a white noise nor a pure tone, but a complex signal with a progressive increase in the spacing between the frequency components in 3 out of 5 subjects. Knowing whether the inharmonic nature of the sound was related to the fact that the non-implanted ear was impaired has to be explored in single-sided deafened patients with a contralateral CI. These results may be used in the future to better understand peripheral and central auditory processing in relation to cochlear implants.
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    Beautiful Tool
    O'hara, MM ; Lee, P ; van der Schyff, D ; Samworth, R ; Carter, JP (Self published, 2012)
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    Zelenka's Ave Regina Coelorum settings (ZWV 128) of 1737: A case study in the transmission of Viennese liturgico-musical practices to Dresden
    KIERNAN, F (University of Melbourne, Faculty of Music, 2012)
    In recent decades, the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) has been the object of increasing interest to scholars and performers of eighteenth-century music. Zelenka was one of a contingent of Bohemian musicians working at the Dresden court during the first half of the eighteenth century, when connections between the Province of Bohemia and the Saxon city were strong. The repertoire of sacred music accumulated and performed for Dresden’s Catholic court church during Zelenka’s career represents one of the crowning artistic achievements of that court. However, a detailed study of the complete set of Zelenka’s Ave regina coelorum settings (ZWV 128) has not yet been undertaken.
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    Commentary: Critical Reflections and Future Action
    Mcpherson, GE ; Welch, G ; Gary, M ; Welch, GF (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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    The Ring.Wagner.Animated (RWA)
    KRAM, D (Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2012)