A method is presented to extract musical features from melodic material. Various viewpoints are defined to focus on complementary aspects of the material. To model the melodic context, two measures of entropy are employed: A set of trained probabilistic models capture local structures via the information-theoretic notion of unpredictability, and an alternative entropymeasure based on adaptive c...

Melodic motifs form essential building blocks in Indian Classical music. The motifs, or key phrases, provide strong cues to the identity of the underlying raga in both Hindustani and Carnatic styles of Indian music. Automatic identification and clustering of similar motifs is relevant in this context. The inherent variations in various instances of a characteristic phrase in a bandish (composit...

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...

A prominent categorization of Indian classical music is the Hindustani and Carnatic traditions, the two styles having evolved under distinctly different historical and cultural influences. Both styles are grounded in the melodic and rhythmic framework of raga and tala. The styles differ along dimensions such as instrumentation, aesthetics and voice production. In particular, Carnatic music is p...

decorative arts have got a special place in iranian architecture traditionally. these types of arts are the symbol of nation's ethnics and indigenous features and also express the artist's feelings of those times. stucco is one type of the decorative arts that has decorated many buildings -especially palaces-that belong to the pre-islamic period and also mosques that built in the isla...

The aim of this paper is to review and discuss possible ways of describing the content of musical files in the context of a specific software application (a tool for content-based management and edition of samples and short audio phrases). Available or feasible descriptors and description schemes for different musical layers (melodic, rhythmic and instrumental) are examined, and its relationshi...