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Sound Design is the New Score is dis- Article received on March 15th 2021 tinguished by an extraordinary level of Article accepted on April 27th 2021 methodological discernment, effective UDC 781(049.32) dramaturgical structure, holistic ap- proach to sound in film, and intimate knowledge of its subject matter. It consti- Marija Pantić * tutes a valuable scholarly contribution in PhD candidate the field of film , which makes University of Arts in Belgrade it suitable for specialized and wider read- Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology ing publics alike. Although the author corroborates her claims with an impres- sive number of examples from films and Blanka Bogunović, Sanela Nikolić appropriate theoretical-empirical evi- (Eds), Proceedings / The First dence, her conclusions might not be en- International Conference Psychology tirely acceptable to every reader, espe- and Music: Interdisciplinary Encounters th cially to composers of film music, who [24–26 October 2019, Belgrade]. might recognize in the monograph’s very Belgrade: Faculty of Music, University 1 title the danger facing their craft – when of Arts Belgrade, 2020. its role and significance are presented as nearly equal to those of the creative prac- tices of sound designers. Since Serbian Finally, the complex and dynamic inter- and regional musicology has so far disciplinary field of spawned a rather limited number of stud- received its first international conference ies concerning the musical aspects of in our country. It was held from October filmmaking, it would be extremely stim- 24 to 26 in Belgrade, under the title Psy- ulating if this monograph by Danijela chology and Music: Interdisciplinary En- Kulezic-Wilson were to be translated into counters (PAM-IE Belgrade 2019). The Serbian. We hope that this book will also organizer was the Faculty of Music in act as an incentive to Serbian publishers Belgrade, and the co-organizers were the and cultural institutions to support fur- Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of ther research in film music and sound, Philosophy in Belgrade and the Section and thus enrich Serbian scholarly musi- for Music Psychology of the Serbian Psy- cology with new applied insights in the chological Society. domain of cinematic art and audiovisual Ambitiously designed as an inclu- media. sive communication space for researchers

* Author contact information: [email protected] 1 How to quote this volume: Bogunović, B. & Nikolić, S. (Eds) (2020). Proceedings of PAM-IE Belgrade 2019. Belgrade: Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade.

130 Reviews at different levels of experience and with Faculty of Music in Belgrade (hereinafter diverse methodological backgrounds, FMU), and contains the editor’s note, a this three-day conference offered a plat- list of members of the program and orga- form for exchanging ideas and network- nizing committee and 30 papers in Eng- ing on a broad (inter)disciplinary, geo- lish, arranged in 11 thematic units (in- graphical (18 countries from 4 cluding two thematic symposia), which continents), institutional (researchers follow the thematic units of the confer- and authors come both from different ence. The collection is dominated by re- faculties and institutes as well as associa- views of empirical research, including tions and specialised music schools) and several case studies. The Proceedings also expertise levels (from students and young contains theoretical interdisciplinary pa- researchers, through those more experi- pers, as well as studies that have uniquely enced, to leading authorities in this field and profoundly intertwoven different such as ). disciplines with opposing epistemologies. In addition to their initiation and Musical development at the pre- encouragement of the conference and a school age represents the thematic start- series of lectures and workshops held in ing point of the collection and contains the pre-conference segment, as well as an overview of two empirical research several keynotes within the conference, studies. While Portuguese authors Caro- members of the European Society for the lina e Sá and Eduarda Carvalho reviewed Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM)2 their multiple case study of a transdisci- further contributed not only to the out- plinary nature, in which they investigated line of the conference, but also to that of the characteristics of a repertoire of lul- the published collection of papers, labies sung to pre-term infants in inten- through their participation in the Pro- sive care by their mothers, Marija Savić, gram Committee and the Abstract Re- Dubravka Stošić, and Nikola Goljović view Committee.3 presented the results of their research A collection of academic papers that examined the importance of music from this conference, edited by Dr. Sanela education of pre-school teachers and Nikolić and Dr. Blanka Bogunović, their performing competencies for suc- ESCOM representative for Serbia and cessful work on the development of chil- spiritus movens of the conference, was dren’s musical abilities in educational published in 2020, as an edition of the pre-school institutions. The second thematic circle of the collection, Musical Perception and Cogni- 2 John Sloboda, , Renee tion, consists of three texts. By analyzing Timmers and Jane Ginsborg. the use of different forms of pedal tone, 3 See the bilingual abstract booklet, which includes abstracts of the pre-conference pro- in selected examples of Western art music gram, four plenary presentations and 90 pa- of the XVIII and XIX centuries, Ida pers presented at the conference in 12 the- Vujović, from the perspective of expec- matic sessions, 2 thematic symposia and 13 tancy theory, constructed a new diction- poster presentations. ary for describing pedal tone and differ-

131 New Sound 57, I/2021 entiated pedal concept variants and their relationship between the perception of subtypes. Teodora Vuletić discussed idiosyncrasy of musical interpretation methodological problems that under- and the experience of the character of the mine the validity of tasks aimed at exam- work, by means of selected performances ining music conservation, giving the of Debussy’s Syrinx for solo flute. In their overview of a recent domestic pilot study, case study, Brazilian musicologists Maria and Blanka Bogunović, Ida Vujović and Bernadete Castelan Póvoas and Luís Ana Protulipac presented a detailed re- Claudio Barros investigated the effects of view of their research on reading strate- the implementation of movement cycles gies in singing and playing music stu- and anticipated gesture strategies to the dents, which contributes to the mutual integration of performers and the correlation of two music disciplines, ear optimization of music performance in training and vocal-instrumental learning. piano duos by Brazilian composers, Music, stress and performance anxi- whereas Tatjana Popović compared ex- ety is the title of the third thematic sec- pressive kinesthetic function in two se- tion, which consists of two papers. Psy- lected pianistic performances. chologists Anna Antonina Nogaj and Psychology and is Izabela Czarnecka from Kazimierz the title of the fifth problem section, Wielki University in Bydgoszcz searched, which comprises two papers. In their in their study, for differences in stress pilot research, Dejana Mutavdžin and management styles and social competen- Blanka Bogunović pointed out the differ- cies among classical and jazz musicians, ences in the educational preferences of while Miloš Zaktalik and Aleksandar musically gifted high school and univer- Kontić, a prolific interdisciplinary duo, sity students and laid the foundation for a integrated insights of musical analysis larger research that will have great peda- and psychoanalytic concepts in an origi- gogical significance. Vesna Rokvić, Majda nal way, examining the phenomenon of Marić, Danica Bajagić, et al. gave an over- stage anxiety among musicians. view of their empirical study, in which In the fourth thematic section of the the quality of inclusive education in collection, entitled Psychology of Musical music schools was examined. The find- Performance, there are four texts. As part ings of the study showed that (selected) of their case study, Croatian authors Val- specialised music schools have created a nea Žauhar, Aleksandra Matić, Ana favourable environment for the develop- Dražul and Igor Bajšanski investigated ment of inclusive practices, regarding the influence of the use of formal struc- both the quality of student support and ture, segmentation of form by the pianist, the partnerships with parents, but also re- as well as the influence of the technical vealed the need for support of a more complexity of the work on the process of successful integration of pupils with ad- memorizing contemporary music. The ditional support needs and their peers. musicologist Marija Tomić, a young re- The sixth section, Music and the searcher from FMU, searched in her em- Regulation of Affects, also contains two pirical study for answers concerning the articles. Scandinavian authors Margarida

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Baltazar and Daniel Västfjäll have holisti- the results of their empirical study on the cally approached data sources in search influence of music as the dance accompa- of the qualities of music that is perceived niment on the perception of dance per- as relaxing. The article has a pioneering formance in classical ballet, hip-hop and character because it represents the first contemporary dance. study in the field of music psychology Another thematic section, the based on data obtained using the Appli- eighth, is dedicated to the problems of cation Programming Interface (API) of perception and cognition, this time in the the Spotify and Genius platforms. Ex- context of musical analysis, and contains ploring the potential of listening to music four texts. The possibilities of correla- as a method of regulating the parasympa- tions between the aesthetic experience of thetic nervous system through heart rate popular music and the probability of its analysis, a group of Slovenian researchers harmonic progressions were examined in of various competencies (Maja Derlink, two related studies by Marik Roos from Veronika Rogelj et al.) made an interest- the Ludwig Maximilian University of ing discovery about parasympathetic re- Munich, who used the results of har- activation after one has stopped listening monic analysis of over a thousand songs, to music. as well as specially composed musical In the seventh section, Music in Ev- models, while Ana Rebrina in her case eryday Life, there are three papers. At the study analyzed the connection between beginning of the section there is another audibly recognizable details and macro- pioneering contribution from Scandina- forms in one of the Three Piano Composi- via, the study of Johanna N. Wilson, tions by Milton Babbitt, applying psycho- Marc Thompson and Suvi Saarikalliо, musicological theories of perception. At who explored cognitive and emotional the end of this thematic part, there are processes when listening to music on two empirical studies of the students of platforms such as YouTube and set up the Music theory department at the FMU. preliminary theoretical framework for In his empirical research, Đorđe understanding of the listening experience Stanojević (one of the honorary mentions of young people with the medium of at the conference), measured the accu- music video, as well as for the compre- racy of the perception of rhythmic pat- hension of its impact on emotional terns, meters and types of beats and ways health. Then musicologist Radost Galo- of functioning of musical memory in nja Krtinić gave an overview of her em- music students, while Neda Nikolić’s ex- pirical research in which she searched for ploratory research examined the connec- emotional responses to mass (partisan) tions between perception of procedural songs by members of different genera- musical flow and emotional response. tions, from the space of former Yugosla- Four studies grouped in the ninth via. At the end of this section, a group of thematic section treat the issues of music psychologists from the Faculty of Philos- and meaning. The philosopher Sanja ophy in Niš (Marija Stankov, Nebojša Srećković makes valuable interdisciplin- Milićević and Ana Jovančević) presented ary conceptual connections and viable

133 New Sound 57, I/2021 methodological combinations, as she through the conscious and unconscious considers the contribution of experimen- psychic processes of the main character, tal psychology to philosophical debates and Marija Simonović explores the poetic on musical meaning, by combining plane of Ravel’s Ondine using Bachelard’s methods of philosophical analysis with interpretations of the water element and insights from the psychological experi- the concept of material imagination. ments. Within the next two original in- Although it is indisputable that the terdisciplinary approaches, Srđan Teparić psychology of music is inherently an in- explores the semantic upgrade of the ar- terdisciplinary field, it is also true that its chetype in postmodernist music, examin- interdisciplinarity, in the full sense of the ing selected works by three contemporary word, must be constantly reclaimed, be- Serbian composers, while Sanela Nikolić cause its interdisciplinary character turns tests a five-phase theoretical model of into a disciplinary one over time. There- aesthetic experience on the selected sam- fore, it is of special importance to achieve ple of music criticism, broadcasted on new, original and/or deep methodologi- Radio Belgrade 2 in 2017. This thematic cal and disciplinary combinations, which circle closes with the article of Milena (re)promote the interdisciplinarity of this Petrović, who gave an overview of the de- important scientific field. In that sense, a velopment of in Serbia in special place was occupied by the con- the previous decade, an interdiscipline cluding study by musicologists Tijana whose foundations in our area were laid Popović Mlađenović, Neda Kolić and by her research and pedagogical work. Ivana Petković Lozo, primarily presented Within the tenth and eleventh the- within the second thematic symposium matic circle of the collection, we find pa- of the conference. As a starting point, the pers presented within the two thematic authors gave a musicological interpreta- symposia. The first of them deals with tion of Debussy’s Preludes as a cycle (dis- the understanding of Ravel’s Ondine on covering the integrative elements of its the basis of Jung’s analytical psychology musical dramaturgy) and as an imagi- and the psychology of the element of nary painting exhibition, based on picto- water of Gaston Bachelard and contains rial logic. After the psychomusicological three works. In an exhaustive consider- discussion on the basis of the theory of ation of selected narrative patterns of synesthesia was developed, the ideas of Ravel’s Ondine through the lenses of the “observing music” by pictorial logic and concept of anime archetype, musicologist “listening to the image” according to the Igor Radeta skillfully weaves a complex musical laws and synesthetic correspon- interdisciplinary thread of Jung’s analyti- dences of the Preludes were tested, using cal psychology, applied narratology, mu- the tools of empirical research, and con- sical semiotics and musical analysis. Mil- clusions were integrated into the musico- ica Lazarević discusses the musical logical discourse. dramaturgy of Ravel’s Ondine from the The realisation of the PAM-IE Bel- viewpoint of the dynamics of the phe- grade 2019 conference, as well as the pub- nomenon of psyche (in Jung’s definition) lication of this collection, marks a new

134 Reviews phase in the development of music psy- Article received on April 27th 2021 chology at the Faculty of Music in Bel- Article accepted on April 30th 2021 grade (but also in the country and region), UDC 786.2.083(497.11)(086.76)(049.32) which after increasing activities in this field in the last 15 years, established itself as an important center for the develop- Stefan Cvetković* ment of music psychology. Regional net- University of Arts working, which was formalized during the Faculty of Music conference with the establishment of the Department of Musicology Regional Network Psychology and Music (RNPaM), as well as the planned new in- ternational conference PAM-IE Belgrade 2022, as additional incentives, will cer- tainly contribute to the further develop- CD Arrhythmia – Piano Works by ment of music psychology in our region. Contemporary Serbian Authors Neda Hofman-Sretenović, piano Duration [41:37]; ISBN 978-86-89621-08-2

The persistent dedication to contempo- rary art music that Belgrade-based pia- nist Neda Hofman-Sretenović has dem- onstrated for a number of years now, through her noted and active work in pi- anism, pedagogy, and organizing, has yielded another contribution in the form of a CD album titled Aritmija (“Arrhyth- mia”), released in 2019 by The Construc- tion Site Contemporary Music Ensem- ble.1 Partly comprising works by Serbian authors commissioned by the pianist, as well as pieces personally selected by her, the album offers a possible and rather in- dividually shaped survey of the diversity of pianistic expression in a relatively

* Author contact information: [email protected] 1 The editor of the release and author of the essay in the sleeve notes is Dr Ivana Miladino- vić Prica.

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