Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?
This online course has explored how we experience music through body movement. The course covered the theoretical foundations of embodied music cognition, including concepts such as multimodality, entrainment and emotion. Through interviews in the labs, world-leading researchers presented different methods and technologies used to study music-related movement, including advanced motion capture systems and sound analysis methods.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Professor of Musicology
University of Oslo
Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen
Associate Professor of Musicology
University of Oslo
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on the importance of the human body in the experience of music
- Classify different types of music-related body movements
- Collect information about music-related body movements
- Describe different types of research methods used to study music-related body movements
- Explain how the body entrains to musical rhythms
Syllabus
- A historical overview
- Perception and cognition of music
- Functional action-sound categories
- Multimodality
- Pulse and Entrainment
- Groove
- Gestures and Coarticulation
- Bodily Metaphors
- Motion Capture
- Video Analysis
- Bio Sensors
Issued on 22nd June 2023
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