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Many congratulations to the four CMS undergraduates who did music and science dissertations this term, and received a stellar set of marks, all high firsts: one 75, two 78s, and one 80!

  • Reuben Bance: Harmonic style classification of jazz pianists in a source-separated piano trio dataset
  • Zaki Lim: Exploring the emotional response to music-evoked nostalgia, and how the Big Five personality traits moderate this response
  • Maddie Jones: Music for mood regulation in Cambridge undergraduates
  • May Bui: In pursuit of robustness and performance in a modernised Query-by-Humming system

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Maddie Jones starting PhD at Bristol University

28 March 2025

We are very pleased to hear that Maddie Jones, who did an undergraduate dissertation project at the CMS analysing the relationship between music listening and mood, has been awarded a full PhD scholarship to study at Bristol University, in the School of Psychological Science. She will be supervised by Professor Claire...

New article: Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening

28 March 2025

Many congratulations to Hannah Wilkie for her recent article in Music Perception entitled 'Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening'! This article came from Hannah's MPhil thesis at the CMS in 2023. Hannah is now studying for a PhD in Princeton University. Abstract: The influence of room acoustic...