Daniel Shanahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 220038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Shanahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Shanahan |
| SIGNATURE | SHANAHAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6859-1324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski’s Jewish Instrumental Folk Music
This article investigates modal practice in Jewish instrumental music from Eastern Europe, now known as klezmer."Mode" in this context refers to the melodic behavior of a given repertoire, including idiomatic figures, melodic tendencies, properties of stability and instability, and modulation pathways.The question, then, is, how can we model all those features of modal behavior that klezmer musicians know intuitively from experience?Studies in mu…
Time-of-day practices echo circadian physiological arousal: An enculturated embodied practice in Hindustani classical music
Traditionally, various Hindustani (North Indian) ragas have been performed at specific times of day, such as dawn, dusk, midday, and evening. Human physiology also exhibits common circadian patterns, with reduced arousal at night, rising during the morning, culminating in peak arousal, and then declining arousal towards the end of the day. This raises the question of how and whether the musical features of ragas for each time of day are related t…
The cognitive, affective, and motoric correlates of rhythmic complexity
Although a great deal of research has delved into the perception of rhythm and metre, relatively few studies have focused on how listeners perceive and aesthetically evaluate complex musical rhythms. Here, we ask what it means to perceive something as rhythmically complex, and whether there are affective, cognitive, and motoric correlates of rhythmic complexity in the context of twentieth-century music from Europe and North America. This paper ex…
Empirical Musicology: An Interview with David Huron Part II
On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding research methodology, public musicology, music and emotion, formal theory, the place of biology in music studies, and other topics. The second of two interviews
Empirical Musicology: An Interview with David Huron Part I
On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding the founding of the journal, the growth of empirical musicology, digital corpus studies, the Humdrum Toolkit, and related topics. The first of two interviews
Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community
This past summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in the United States led to public outcry and international protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and broader awareness of the effects of systemic racism. Following these events, many organizations have reflected critically on how they participate in practices that marginalize underrepresented members of their community. The Society for Musi…
Examining musical sophistication: A replication and theoretical commentary on the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index
The difficulties associated with measuring the complex construct of musicianship have received considerable attention in the music psychology literature. Multiple measures exist for various constructs, yet the need for the careful replication and documentation of the use of these measures remains an area of critical importance. Here, we describe the replication of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) in a sample of 346 universit…
Rhythmic variability, language, and style: A replication and extension of nPVI findings with the Rism dataset
The normalised pairwise variability index (nPVI), has been frequently used to measure the rhythmic variance between musical onsets. For example, researchers have proposed connections between the nationalities of composers and the nPVI values of their music and native language. One particular issue, however, lies in the notion of intended nationality – composers frequently wrote in national styles other than their own. This study employs the RISM-…
Supervised descriptive pattern discovery in Native American music
The discovery of recurrent patterns in groups of songs is an important first step in computational corpus analysis. In this paper, computational techniques of supervised descriptive pattern discovery are applied to model and extend ethnomusicological analyses of Native American music. Using a corpus of over 2000 songs collected and transcribed by anthropologist Frances Densmore and building on Densmore’s own music content features, the analysis i…
A New View of Language, Emotion and the Brain
Culture, culture and “culture” in Foreign Language Teaching
“Culture,” which is taking on increasing importance in contemporary foreign language pedagogy, has also been the subject of much debate. Definitions of what culture is have proliferated, from Matthew Arnold to Levi‐Strauss to Edward Hall, and not infrequently lines of opposition have formed around them. But if we abandon an oppositional mode of thinking and address the question of culture and language learning from the perspective of the affectiv…
Alien winds: The reeducation of America's Indochinese refugees
Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business
(1988). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. The Social Science Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 386-388
Canada, Quebec and the Third World: Historical Liabilities and Improbable Success
Culture, culture and “culture” in Foreign Language Teaching
“Culture,” which is taking on increasing importance in contemporary foreign language pedagogy, has also been the subject of much debate. Definitions of what culture is have proliferated, from Matthew Arnold to Levi‐Strauss to Edward Hall, and not infrequently lines of opposition have formed around them. But if we abandon an oppositional mode of thinking and address the question of culture and language learning from the perspective of the affectiv…
Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business
(1988). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. The Social Science Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 386-388
A New View of Language, Emotion and the Brain
Canada, Quebec and the Third World: Historical Liabilities and Improbable Success
Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business
(1988). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. The Social Science Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 386-388
Alien winds: The reeducation of America's Indochinese refugees
Culture, culture and “culture” in Foreign Language Teaching
“Culture,” which is taking on increasing importance in contemporary foreign language pedagogy, has also been the subject of much debate. Definitions of what culture is have proliferated, from Matthew Arnold to Levi‐Strauss to Edward Hall, and not infrequently lines of opposition have formed around them. But if we abandon an oppositional mode of thinking and address the question of culture and language learning from the perspective of the affectiv…
A New View of Language, Emotion and the Brain
Supervised descriptive pattern discovery in Native American music
The discovery of recurrent patterns in groups of songs is an important first step in computational corpus analysis. In this paper, computational techniques of supervised descriptive pattern discovery are applied to model and extend ethnomusicological analyses of Native American music. Using a corpus of over 2000 songs collected and transcribed by anthropologist Frances Densmore and building on Densmore’s own music content features, the analysis i…
Empirical Musicology: An Interview with David Huron Part I
On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding the founding of the journal, the growth of empirical musicology, digital corpus studies, the Humdrum Toolkit, and related topics. The first of two interviews
Embracing Anti-Racist Practices in the Music Perception and Cognition Community
This past summer, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in the United States led to public outcry and international protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, and broader awareness of the effects of systemic racism. Following these events, many organizations have reflected critically on how they participate in practices that marginalize underrepresented members of their community. The Society for Musi…
Examining musical sophistication: A replication and theoretical commentary on the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index
The difficulties associated with measuring the complex construct of musicianship have received considerable attention in the music psychology literature. Multiple measures exist for various constructs, yet the need for the careful replication and documentation of the use of these measures remains an area of critical importance. Here, we describe the replication of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) in a sample of 346 universit…
Rhythmic variability, language, and style: A replication and extension of nPVI findings with the Rism dataset
The normalised pairwise variability index (nPVI), has been frequently used to measure the rhythmic variance between musical onsets. For example, researchers have proposed connections between the nationalities of composers and the nPVI values of their music and native language. One particular issue, however, lies in the notion of intended nationality – composers frequently wrote in national styles other than their own. This study employs the RISM-…
Empirical Musicology: An Interview with David Huron Part II
On the occasion of David Huron's retirement, EMR Editor, Daniel Shanahan, recently interviewed him regarding research methodology, public musicology, music and emotion, formal theory, the place of biology in music studies, and other topics. The second of two interviews
Time-of-day practices echo circadian physiological arousal: An enculturated embodied practice in Hindustani classical music
Traditionally, various Hindustani (North Indian) ragas have been performed at specific times of day, such as dawn, dusk, midday, and evening. Human physiology also exhibits common circadian patterns, with reduced arousal at night, rising during the morning, culminating in peak arousal, and then declining arousal towards the end of the day. This raises the question of how and whether the musical features of ragas for each time of day are related t…
The cognitive, affective, and motoric correlates of rhythmic complexity
Although a great deal of research has delved into the perception of rhythm and metre, relatively few studies have focused on how listeners perceive and aesthetically evaluate complex musical rhythms. Here, we ask what it means to perceive something as rhythmically complex, and whether there are affective, cognitive, and motoric correlates of rhythmic complexity in the context of twentieth-century music from Europe and North America. This paper ex…
Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski’s Jewish Instrumental Folk Music
This article investigates modal practice in Jewish instrumental music from Eastern Europe, now known as klezmer."Mode" in this context refers to the melodic behavior of a given repertoire, including idiomatic figures, melodic tendencies, properties of stability and instability, and modulation pathways.The question, then, is, how can we model all those features of modal behavior that klezmer musicians know intuitively from experience?Studies in mu…
Psychology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Music and Audio Processing (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Cognition (4 works)