This study approaches melodic dictation in relation to aural analysis, by investigating the effect on an accomplished before taking, its results. 98 music undergraduates participated performing a task. The participants were divided into control group and experimental group. Subjects situation asked answer few questions about melody regarding structure, motifs harmonic tension prior notating it....

Ammirante and Thompson’s intriguing article aims to enhance the ecological validity of their previous findings (Ammirante, Thompson, & Russo, in press) by using music-like melodic stimuli, rather than random pitch sequences. In line with this aim, I will briefly discuss three issues that may be taken into account in relating the motion-like qualities of melody to music and music-related behavio...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

The purpose of this investigation was to obtain information from professional singers active in performing of both classical and music theater repertoire with regard to the visual/kinesthetic effect of melodic contour in musical notation as it affects vocal timbre. The evaluation of data gathered during the study indicates that there is reason to investigate the resulting postural shifts of the...

A raga performance in Hindustani vocal music builds upon a melodic framework wherein raga-characteristic phrases are presented with creative variations while strongly retaining their identity. It is therefore of interest, for both music information retrieval and pedagogy, to understand better the space of “allowed” variations of the melodic motifs. Our recent study of melodic shapes correspondi...

The early development of infant non-distress vocalizations was investigated in this study. Thirteen infants, from 4 to 24 weeks of age, and their mothers were observed weekly in a face-to-face interaction situation. The speech quality (syllabic versus vocalic) and melodic complexity (simple versus complex) of infant vocalizations were coded independently. Based on speech quality and melodic com...

Cochlear implant (CI) recipients generally have good perception of speech in quiet environments but difficulty perceiving speech in noisy conditions, reduced sensitivity to speech prosody, and difficulty appreciating music. Auditory training has been proposed as a method of improving speech perception for CI recipients, and recent efforts have focussed on the potential benefits of music-based t...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine recognition of degraded melodic stimuli in dichotic listening with or without frequency-place mismatch. DESIGN Melodic stimuli were noise vocoded with various number-of-channel conditions in a dichotic and monaural processor. In the dichotic zipper processor, the odd-indexed channels were tonotopically matched and presented to the left ear wh...

The understanding of speech melody, i.e., pitch variations related to both tone and intonation, can be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that the melody conveys communicative meanings, and that it is produced by human articulators. Communicative meanings, as I will argue, are conveyed through a set of separate functions which are realized by an articulatory s...