Ian Cross

Biographic Data

ID5890234
NAMEIan Cross
GIVEN NAMESIan
FAMILY NAMECross
SIGNATURECROSS I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Singers' Realizations of Linguistic Tone in Chaozhou Song

    Xi Zhang, Ian Cro et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2024References: 39

    This article explores singers' realization of linguistic tones of Chaozhou, a Southern Chinese tone language, in song performance. Analysis of a folk song sung by five singers reveals consistent realization of falling tones with a descending pitch within individual notes. The result suggests that Chaozhou singers may incorporate their spoken language experience into the notes they sing, irrespective of the different routes of learning to sing the…

  • Music in the digital age

    Open AccessIan Cro, Ian CrossARTICLEAI & Society2023

    Digital systems are reshaping how we engage with music as a sounding dimension of cultural life that is capable of being transformed into a commodity. At the same time, as we increasingly engage through digital media with each other and with virtual others, attributes of music that underpin our capacity to interact communicatively are disregarded or overlooked within those media. Even before the advent of technologies of music reproduction, music…

  • Music and Mental Imagery

    Mats Küssner, Graham Welch et al.BOOKMusic and Mental Imagery2022

  • Reconsidering Empathy

    Open AccessErica L Cao, Erica Cao et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Humanities2021

    The decline of empathy among health professional students, highlighted in the literature on health education, is a concern for medical educators. The evidence suggests that empathy decline is likely to stem more from structural problems in the healthcare system rather than from individual deficits of empathy. In this paper, we argue that a focus on direct empathy development is not effective and possibly detrimental to justice-oriented aims. Draw…

  • The Social and Personal Functions of Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Michelle Clayton, Martin Clayton et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music…2015

    Music's functions appear to range from the individual (music can affect the way we feel and the way we manage our lives) – to the social (it can facilitate the coordination of large numbers of people and help to forge a sense of group identity). This article argues that musical behaviour also covers a vast middle ground in which relationships between self and other or between the individual and the collective are played out. This chapter surveys …

  • Music and Meaning

    Ian Cro, Caroline J Tolbert et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music…2015

    "[This edition] updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally recognised authority in the area"--Jacket

  • Tonality and Contour in Melodic Processing

    Mark A Schmuckler, Susan Hallam et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music…2015

    "[This edition] updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally recognised authority in the area"--Jacket

  • Musical Time

    Mari Riess Jones, Susan Hallam et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music…2015

    "[This edition] updates the original landmark text and provides a comprehensive review of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. Covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives, each of the 11 sections is edited by an internationally recognised authority in the area"--Jacket

  • The Acoustic and Auditory Contexts of Human Behavior

    Open AccessElizabeth C Blake, Ian Cro et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2015Cited by: 10References: 146

    Sound is a crucial component of the human communicative toolkit; however, as a topic of research, it has been relatively neglected in archaeological method and theory. We propose that a framework requires to be developed in which inferences can be made about the significance of sound in the past that are not bounded by the particularities of current cultural contexts. Such a framework should be multidisciplinary and draw on what is known scientif…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology, Second Edition

    Susan Hallam, Ian Cross et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music…2014

  • Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children

    Open AccessTal-Chen Rabinowitch, Ian Cro et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Music2013

    Musical group interaction (MGI) is a complex social setting requiring certain cognitive skills that may also elicit shared psychological states. We argue that many MGI-specific features may also be important for emotional empathy, the ability to experience another person’s emotional state. We thus hypothesized that long-term repeated participation in MGI could help enhance a capacity for emotional empathy even outside of the musical context, thro…

  • “Does not compute”? Music as real-time communicative interaction

    Open AccessIan Cro, Ian CrossARTICLEAI & Society2013

  • Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology

    Susan Hallam, Ian Cross et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford handbook of music…2012

    The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-growing area of research. With contributions from experts in the field, the coverage offered has both range and depth. The fifty-two articles are divided into eleven sections covering both experimental and theoretical perspectives. Ten sections each present articles that focus on specific areas of music psychology: the origins and fun…

  • Music and cognitive evolution

    Ian Cro, Ian CrossCHAPTEROxford handbook of evolutionary…2012

    This article suggests that several different factors converged to suggest that evolutionary thinking about music was likely to be unfruitful. Over much of the twentieth century, consideration of origins in the study of music moved away from any exploration of music's relationship to biology to re-focus on the historical relationships between contemporary Western musical theory and practice, and Western musical history, or on music's relationships…

  • Language and music as cognitive systems

    Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohmeier et al.EDITORBOOKLanguage and music as cognitive…2012

    The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Languages and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and music is the assumption that the comparison of these …

  • The social and personal functions of music in cross-cultural perspective

    Michelle Clayton, Martin Clayton et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford handbook of music…2012

    Music's uses and contexts are so many and so various that the task of cataloguing its functions is daunting: how can we make sense of this diversity? These functions appear to range from the individual (music can affect the way we feel and the way we manage our lives) to the social (it can facilitate the coordination of large numbers of people and help to forge a sense of group identity). This article argues that musical behaviour covers a vast m…

  • Listening as Covert Performance

    Open AccessIan Cro, Ian CrossARTICLEJournal of the Royal Musical…2010

    This paper presents a view of musical listening as an active, dynamic and interactive process. After briefly considering the historical valorization of listening as critical act within Western musical culture, the paper describes the cognitive processes of schematization that are involved in musical listening. The central role of active engagement with the auditory environment in eliciting emotional responses to music is then sketched out, and th…

  • A Software Interface between Human and Computer Virtual Players for Music Performance in Concert

    Alejandro Viñao, Ian Cro et al.ARTICLELeonardo2006

    The authors discuss the collaborative process of creating a computer interface to enable live musicians and computers to play together without compromising the integrity of the music or the performance

  • Psychology of music

    Diana Deutsch, Alf Gabrielsson et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Introduction

    Ian Cro, Ian Cross et al.ARTICLEContemporary Music Review1993

    (1993). Introduction: Cognitive science and music—an overview. Contemporary Music Review: Vol. 9, Music and the Cognitive Sciences, pp. 1-6