A case of pure amusia in a 20 year old left handed non-professional musician is reported. The patient showed an impairment of music abilities in the presence of normal processing of speech and environmental sounds. Furthermore, whereas recognition and production of melodic sequences were grossly disturbed, both the recognition and production of rhythm patterns were preserved. This selective bre...

Self-organizing maps (SOMs, Kohonen, 1982) have been extensively used as information processing models in music perception. Using a corpus that represents tonal regularities in Western music, Tillmann et.al (2000) developed a schema of Western tonal music. Krumhansl, et.al (2000) showed that melodic expectancy in Finnish music could be modeled by SOMs trained on samples of Finnish music. Recent...

This study offers a phonetic description and phonological analysis of a variety of melodic contours in Brazilian Portuguese. These are commonly referred to as conveying the modal, or illocutionary, functions of intonation, as well as some attitudinal uses. The phonological analysis follows the AM framework and aims at distinguishing what is contrastive and what are merely allophonic variations ...

Subjects compared the pitches of two tones which were separated by a retention interval during which six extra tones were interpolated. The effects were studied of varying the sizes of the melodic intervals formed by the successive tones of the interpolated sequence. It was found that error rates were lower when the interpolated sequences were composed of smaller melodic intervals; and it was a...

The high degree of standardization that can be achieved in the intonational synthesis by rule of isolated utterances may not be applicable to that of Ionger texts, because the listener may become aware of the unnatural recurrence of invariably the same melodic recipe. Two experiments were run in which listeners evaluated the naturalness of a prose text that had been intoned with varying degrees...

In this paper a formal model will be presented that attempts to organise melodic segments into ‘significant’ musical categories (e.g. motives). Given a segmentation of a melodic surface, the proposed model constructs an appropriate representation for each segment in terms of a number of attributes (these reflect melodic and rhythmic aspects of the segment at the surface and at various abstract ...

Gender induction has been claimed to be virtually impossible unless nouns provide reliable semantic or phonological gender-relevant cues. However, learners might exploit syntactic cues, such as definite articles, to infer the gender of gender-unmarked nouns. In children's poems and songs, such syntactic cues are presented in a highly structured fashion. We assessed gender-like category inductio...

We present a method for melody retrieval using the Implication/ Realization (I/R) model, a model of melodic structure. As a preprocessing step to retrieval, all melodies to be compared are analysed using our I/R parser. The similarity ranking of melodies from data base melodies with respect to the query is determined by computing the edit distance between the I/R analysis of the query and those...

Tune deafness (TD) is a central auditory processing disorder characterized by the inability to discriminate pitch, reproduce melodies or to recognize deviations in melodic structure, in spite of normal hearing. The cause of the disorder is unknown. To identify a pathophysiological marker, we ascertained a group of severely affected TD patients using the Distorted Tunes Test, an ecologically val...

The aim of this work is to propose a method for MIREX 2012 in SYMBOLIC MELODIC SIMILARITY task. The method apply the Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM), and also propose data modeling inspired on psychophysiological aspects. Rhythmic and melodic elements are combined, instead of using only melody or rhythm alone. The models consider the perception of pitch changing and note durations articula...