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Sociomusicology (from Latin: socius, "companion"; from Old French musique; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Old Greek λόγος, lógos : "discourse"), also called music sociology or the sociology of music, refers to both an academic subfield of sociology that is concerned with music (often in combination with other arts), as well as a subfield of musicology that focuses on social ...
John Rahn, born on February 26, 1944, in New York City, is a music theorist, composer, bassoonist, and Professor of Music at the University of Washington School of Music, Seattle. A former student of Milton Babbitt and Benjamin Boretz , he was editor of Perspectives of New Music from 1983 to 1993 and since 2001 has been co-editor with Benjamin ...
Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...
The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...
Basic groups: The smallest possible social group with a defined number of people (i.e. greater than 1)—often associated with family building: Dyad: Will be a group of two people. Social interaction in a dyad is typically more intense than in larger groups as neither member shares the other's attention with anyone else.
The man suspected of plowing a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's, killing 14 people and injuring 35 others, pledged his support to ISIS, the FBI said Thursday. The ...
Expand coverage of music theory topics in Wikipedia. Establish a basic set of guidelines for music theory articles. Recruit Wikipedians into the music theory project. Scope The scope of this WikiProject includes: The mechanics of music and how music works. Elements of music such as melody, harmony, rhythm, pitch, texture, etc.
Sociology of small groups is a subfield of sociology that studies the action, interaction and the types of social groups that result from social relations. [1] In social life, society is a large social group which contains many subgroups. [2] It is a characteristic of social groups that small groups are in large groups. [2]