Research
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Latest papers
Ears, heads, and eyes: When singers synchronise.
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2019 · senior author
Latest funding
- $319,168
Mapping the Musical Landscape of the Sixteenth Century
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $20,604
Mapping the Musical Landscape of the Sixteenth Century
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $2,499,197
Single interface for music score searching and analysis
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Ears, heads, and eyes: When singers synchronise.
Palmer C, Spidle F, Koopmans E, Schubert P
Mapping the Musical Landscape of the Sixteenth Century
Principal investigators: Cumming, Julie E.
Keywords: Renaissance music; history of the book; music printing; music manuscripts; mensural notation; optical music recognition; digital libraries; music cataloguing; music analysis; musicology; digital humanities; library science; religious studies; early modern
Mapping the Musical Landscape of the Sixteenth Century
Principal investigators: Cumming, Julie E.
Keywords: Renaissance music; history of the book; music printing; music manuscripts; mensural notation; optical music recognition; digital libraries; music cataloguing; music analysis; musicology; digital humanities; library science; religious studies; early modern
Single interface for music score searching and analysis
Keywords: digital library; optical music recognition; musicology; music database; music theory; music analysis; music notation
Virtual museum of ancient tuning
Principal investigators: Wild, Jonathan
Keywords: musical performance; tuning and temperament; historical reconstruction; interactive website; training
The lost generation: the motet from Josquin to Palestrina
Principal investigators: Cumming, Julie E.
Keywords: renaissance; early modern; music; Motet; musical style; compositional process; style change; Josquin Desprez; Palestrina; Mouton; Gombert; Jacquet of Mantua; Verdelot; Willaert; music printing; Italy; counterpoint; sacred music; performance
The dynamics of music listening: an interdisciplinary dialogue between music theory and music psychology
Principal investigators: McAdams, Stephen E.
Keywords: music analysis; musical structure; music cognition; emotional response; musical sound; music recognition
The origins of imitation in the Josquin Era
Principal investigators: Cumming, Julie
Keywords: musicology; music theory; performance; renaissance; motet; chanson; mass; genre; imitation; improvisation; composition; counterpoint; Josquin Desprez; Guillaume du fay; Ockeghem; Busnoys; Isaac; Petrucci;
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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