Despite the still-prevalent but essentially nineteenth century perception of the Western creative artist, an algorithmic approach to music composition has been in evidence in Western classical music for at least one thousand years. The history of algorithmic composition—from both before and after the invention of the digital computer—will be presented along with specific techniques and musical ...

CrowdBand, a sound composition system, demonstrates how a crowd can create works that meet requested criteria and fulfill the aesthetic character given by keyword description and examples. CrowdBand allows flexibility in music composition in terms of duration of the music, completion time and cost of music composition by giving the requestor two modes thrifty and normal. CrowdBand’s workflow di...

Evidence suggests that humans might have neurological specializations for music processing, but a compelling adaptationist account of music and dance is lacking. The sexual selection hypothesis cannot easily account for the widespread performance of music and dance in groups (especially synchronized performances), and the social bonding hypothesis has severe theoretical difficulties. Humans are...

Dancing and singing to music involve auditory-motor coordination and have been essential to our human culture since ancient times. Although scholars have been trying to understand the evolutionary and developmental origin of music, early human developmental manifestations of auditory-motor interactions in music have not been fully investigated. Here we report limb movements and vocalizations in...

Successful reproductive management in buffaloes depends on effective estrus detection. Urinary pheromones identified from natural estrous cycle have been reported to decipher estrus phase. However, its presence has not been analyzed in the urine after synchronization. Thus, our present investigation was to investigate the influence of synchronized estrus urine in bulls and to examine the presen...

This paper describes an instrument that can compose a song using predicates of Ancient Greek Music. It employs the methodology and musical notation of this specific music system and at the same time, it provides a mapping mechanism that depicts the whole process to composition predicates of the usual notation of Western Music. The aim of this application is to facilitate the efforts of Ancient ...

As the internet search evolves toward multimedia content based search and information retrieval, audio content identification and retrieval will likely become one of the key components of next generation internet search machines. In this paper we consider the specific problem of identifying the classical music composition from an unknown performance of the composition. We first explore the chal...

This paper describes how the Salieri System, a powerful and exible tool for composition, analysis, and editing of score level music, has been modi ed to serve as a music-server in a local or global network using HTTP. This composition server o ers new ways of user-machine-interaction and a novel approach to composition using the internet. The architecture of the Salieri server and the required ...