Music software applications often require similarity-finding methods. One instance involves performing content-based searches, where music similar to what is heard by the listener is retrieved from a database using audio or symbolic input. Another instance involves music generation tools where compositional suggestions are provided by the application based on user-provided musical choices (e.g....

Abstract In this note, we present a synopsis of geometric symmetries for (spin 0) perturbations around (4D) black holes and de Sitter space. For holes, focus on static perturbations, which the (exact) have group structure SO(1,3). The generators consist three spatial rotations, conformal Killing vectors obeying special melodic condition. perturbation solutions form unitary (principal series) re...

the main purpose of this paper is analyzing the form and harmony in “neynava”, a piece composed by “hossein alizadeh”. written in 1984, the piece has been composed for solo ney (an iranian instrument) and string orchestra. according to composer himself, this piece is developed according to “dastgah of nava” and its melodic movement and parallel combination is consisted of different modes that c...

The mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related potential (ERP) representing the violation of an acoustic regularity, is considered as a pre-attentive change detection mechanism at the sensory level on the one hand and as a prediction error signal on the other hand, suggesting that bottom-up as well as top-down processes are involved in its generation. Rhythmic and melodic deviations within a m...

This study investigated the categorization of Mandarin lexical tones and music melodic tones by listeners differing in linguistic and musical experience (English musicians, English non-musicians, and Mandarin non-musicians). Linguistic tonal continua were created from the Mandarin rising to level, and falling to level tones. Melodic continua were created by varying the note D under the context ...

OBJECTIVE We explore how accurately and quickly nurses can identify melodic medical equipment alarms when no mnemonics are used, when alarms may overlap, and when concurrent tasks are performed. BACKGROUND The international standard IEC 60601-1-8 (International Electrotechnical Commission, 2005) has proposed simple melodies to distinguish seven alarm sources. Previous studies with nonmedical ...

Objective: Most of the western music consists of a melody and an accompaniment. The melody is referred to as the foreground, with the accompaniment the background. In visual processing, the lateral occipital complex (LOC) is known to participate in foreground and background segregation. We investigated the role of LOC in music processing with use of positron emission tomography (PET). Method: M...

In the context of singing voice synthesis, the generation of the synthesizer controls is a key aspect to obtain expressive performances. In our case, we use a system that selects, transforms and concatenates units of short melodic contours from a recorded database. This paper proposes a systematic procedure for the creation of such database. The aim is to cover relevant style-dependent combinat...

In this paper, we report on a free-hand motion capture study in which 32 participants ‘traced’ 16 melodic vocal phrases with their hands in the air in two experimental conditions. Melodic contours are often thought of as correlated with vertical movement (up and down) in time, and this was also our initial expectation. We did find an arch shape for most of the tracings, although this did not co...