This poster presents a digital library proposal conceived for people interested in acquiring knowledge about Brazilian popular music harmony, particularly in Choro. This Brazilian musical style is a complex popular music form based on improvisation, although it contains classical music elements such as the counterpoint. We are proposing two ways of accessing the music virtual library content: a...

In both music and speech, the perception of different subsets of acoustical features is categorical, and the categorically perceived features are most extensively notated. However, the way in which these features are used to encode different elements of the signals in music and speech is quite different, and in some ways complementary. These simple and general observations may offer some insigh...

“karbala’s epic” was composed in 222 odes and more than 6000 verses by “saeed al osaili” (1929 - 1994), the contemporary lebanese poet. accounting to the life of imam hussain (as) from birth to death, this epic contains, tender affection, fluent words and phrases and appropriate rhythm. this paper is seeking to study the literary elements of  karbala’s epic and analyze the affection of the poet...

Most music processing attempts to focus on one particular feature or structural element such as pitch, beat location, tempo, or genre. This hierarchical approach, in which music is separated into elements that are analyzed independently, is convenient for the scientific researcher, but is at odds with intuition about music perception. Music is interconnected at many levels, and the interplay of...

Parkinson's disease is characterized not only by bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor, but also by impairments of expressive and receptive linguistic prosody. The facilitating effect of music with a salient beat on patients' gait suggests that it might have a similar effect on vocal behavior, however it is currently unknown whether singing is affected by the disease. In the present study, fifteen...

One of my research goals is to enrich music listening experiences by deepening each person’s understanding of music. Music listening experiences depend on music-understanding abilities. Although the music-composing/performing abilities of musicians are often discussed, the music-understanding abilities of casual listeners have not been well discussed or studied. It is difficult, for example, to...