With the advancement of digital electronics and computer technologies, the way people listen to music has experienced a revolutionary change in the past decade. Instead of visiting a CD store on the street, people now search their favorite songs online, via numerous music download websites, MP3 weblogs and peer-to-peer applications. Nowadays tens of millions of people in the greater China regio...

As a result of massive digitization efforts and the world wide web, there is an exploding amount of available digital data describing and representing music at various semantic levels and in diverse formats. For example, in the case of the Beatles songs, there are numerous recordings including an increasing number of cover songs and arrangements as well as MIDI data and other symbolic music rep...

Given the recent explosion in the use of folksonomies to describe digital objects, it is important to study how users tag items in order to design online systems that best meet their needs. This small-scale study explored what music information facets users of the social music website last.fm might consider when assigning emotion-based tags to describe songs, as well as whether a small group of...

There are often situations in which a group of people gather and listen to the same songs. However, majority of existing studies related to music information retrieval (MIR) have focused on personalization for individual users, and there have been only a few studies related to MIR intended for a group of people. Here, we present an Android music player with a music selection function for people...

We propose a novel approach for automatically constructing new songs from a set of given compositions that involves sampling a melody line as well as the corresponding harmonies given by chords. We empirically show that songs generated by our approach are closer to music composed by humans than those of existing methods 1. Composing music is a complex creative process that is not only restricte...

abstract       this study shows that how each composer creates a colorful choral folksong picture, gives an individual  interpretation and new life to a folk melody, and also makes an independent musical work. the present article studies the choral arrangement of the iranian folk songs as a creative musical genre of the modern iranian music. the importance of this genre involves in several chal...

In this digital music era, sorting and discovery of songs is getting harder and more time consuming than before, due to the large pool of songs out there. Many music recommendation system and other similar applications in the market make use of collaborative filtering and social recommendation to suggest music to listeners. However, the problem arises when there is not enough information collec...

Music has been an inherent part of human life when it comes to recreation; entertainment and much recently, even as a therapeutic medium. The way music is composed, played and listened to has witnessed an enormous transition from the age of magnetic tape recorders to the recent age of digital music players streaming music from the cloud. What has remained intact is the special relation that mus...

We address the challenging task of automatically composing lyrical songs with matching musical and lyrical features, and we present the first prototype, M.U. SicusApparatus, to accomplish the task. The focus of this paper is especially on generation of art songs (lieds). The proposed approach writes lyrics first and then composes music to match the lyrics. The crux is that the music composition...