For music signal processing, compared with the strategy which models each short-time frame independently, when the long-time features are considered, the time-series characteristics of the music signal can be better presented. As a typical kind of long-time modeling strategy, the identification vector (i-vector) uses statistical modeling to model the audio signal in the segment level. It can be...

the focus of this article is on music in ghaznavid (977 – 1186 ad) period. in addition to turkish culture, it was influenced by persian and arabic cultures. the aim of this research is to recognize the music of historical dynasty in middle iranian history (after the dominance of islam until modern times). this government is divided into three historical periods; in every period, the geographica...

A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific case of file sharing and its effect on the legal sales of music. A dataset containing 0.01% of the world’s downloads...

ion from immediate and concrete experience. New feelings and symbolic meaning emerge, and these novelties can especially be explored through music, as a multi-layered phenomenon (Frohne-Hagemann, 2015; Trondalen, 2015 to be published). There is a long tradition of music therapy based on cognitive principles in the USA (Bonde, Trondalen & Wigram, 2014; Standley et al, 2004). However, in Scandina...

17th and 18th century music scores were copied and distributed in a manual way. Music historians are interested in how the compositions were distributed or in other words, who copied the compositions when and where. Such information may also help to determine the composer when a piece of unknown origin is found. In this paper, we present ongoing work on the development of a software system to a...