An important source of intelligence for music emotion recognition today comes from user-provided community tags about songs or artists. Recent crowdsourcing approaches such as harvesting social tags, design of collaborative games and web services or the use of Mechanical Turk, are becoming popular in the literature. They provide a cheap, quick and efficient method, contrary to professional labe...

hit song detection, music classification We explore the automatic analysis of music to identify likely hit songs. We extract both acoustic and lyric information from each song and separate hits from non-hits using standard classifiers, specifically Support Vector Machines and boosting classifiers. Our features are based on global sounds learnt in an unsupervised fashion from acoustic data or gl...

This paper describes a music browsing assistance service, Songrium (http://songrium.jp), which enables visualization and exploration of large amounts of user-generated music content with the aim of enhancing user experiences in enjoying music. Such a huge amount of usergenerated content has yielded “web-native music”, which we define as musical pieces that are published, shared, and remixed (ha...

The development of digital music, especially in genre classification has helped the ease studying and searching for a song. There are many ways that can be used to classify songs/music into genres. Deep Learning is one Machine implementation methods music. author managed create deep learning-based program using MLP model with two extraction features, Chroma Feature MFCC which song/ music Pre-pr...

Chinese-American composer Chen Yi has been praised as “the most internationally renowned female Asian composer of contemporary music today,” and she “has in particular become a prominent figure in music circles in the United States and China.” Besides her successes in writing orchestral and chamber music, Chen Yi has also written numerous vocal compositions including some art songs. This docume...

Music psychology has a long history, but the question of whether brief music excerpts are representative whole songs been largely unaddressed. Here, we explore preference and familiarity ratings in response to predictive these songs. We asked 643 participants judge 3,120 varying durations taken from different sections 260 broad range genres time periods terms familiarity. found that within comm...

Present-day cochlear implants provide good temporal cues and coarse spectral cues. In general, these cues are adequate for perceiving speech in quiet backgrounds and for young children's acquisition of spoken language. They are inadequate, however, for conveying the rich pitch-patterning of music. As a result, many adults who become implant users after losing their hearing find music disappoint...

This paper investigates how the theme of uprising is conveyed in Bob Marley’s final music album by the name “Uprising”. Through the methodological lenses of multimodality, attention is focused on how the album cover design, lexical items, literary devices, and other aesthetic ways such as the titles of the ten songs of the album and their order of arrangement contribute to the overall theme of ...