This commentary examines Huron and Veltman’s article from the perspective of historical musicology. The following issues are discussed: • The authors regard modes as conceptual categories of the medieval listener, which seems unlikely on historical and theoretical grounds. • Pitch class profiles are not a good way of capturing the melodic nature of the modes. • The diatonic rather than the chro...

Using online knowledge communities (OKCs) from the Internet as informal learning environments poses the question how likely these communities will be to integrate learners as new members. Such prediction is the purpose of the current study. Based on the approaches of voices interanimation and polyphony, a natural language processing tool was employed for dialog analysis in integrative versus no...

In this paper, a piano chords detector based on parallel interference cancellation (PIC) is presented. The proposed system makes use of the novel idea of modeling a segment of music as a third generation mobile communications signal, specifically, as a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) signal. The proposed model considers each piano note as a CDMA user in which the spreading code is replaced...

Abstract Complex multi-actors and multi-level governance structures have emerged in areas that were traditionally exclusively the preserve of State treaty-making. The adoption United Nations Guiding Principles on Business Human Rights (UNGP) affirmed a corporate responsibility to respect human rights be implemented through due diligence (HRDD), ie via management processes. open-ended character ...

Within the framework of utterance production theories “à la française”, different approaches enunciative heterogeneity have been developed since end 1970’s in interaction, re-work, and re-appropriation notions polyphony dialogism borrowed from Bakhtin Circle. These approaches, beyond their differences, had little interest prosodic, vocal gestural dimensions discursive units under study.It is th...