Is this a new idea? Speculation about the musical nature of animal song goes back to ancient myths from all over the world, many of which claim that human music came from, or was inspired by, animal song. Imitations of animal songs populate traditional music from numerous cultures, and appear in some of the earliest notated music. Pieces by Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Messiaen, among others, includ...

Identifying objects in conversation is a fundamental human capability necessary to achieve efficient collaboration on any real world task. Hence the deepening of our understanding of human referential behaviour is indispensable for the creation of systems that collaborate with humans in a meaningful way. We present the construction of REX-J, a multi-modal Japanese corpus of referring expression...

to the Lake District and who, from the first flush of revolutionary fervour came to a dignified old age in Rydal, Westmorland as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, a Tory supporter, opponent of reform and adherent to the established church. There are several reasons for choosing this subject. I have heard some twenty Presidential Addresses to this Society, from Mr. Robert Cooke's 'Ship-Shape and B...

According to a provocative theory set forth by Manfred Clynes, there are composer-specifiC cyclic patterns of (unnotated) musical microstructure that, when discovered and realized by a performer, help to give the music its characteristic expressive quality. Clynes, relying mainly on his own judgment as an experienced musician, has derived such personal "pulses" for several famous composers by i...

The Theme And Variation Encodings with Roman Numerals (TAVERN) dataset consists of 27 complete sets of theme and variations for piano composed between 1765 and 1810 by Mozart and Beethoven. In these theme and variation sets, comparable harmonic structures are realized in different ways. This facilitates an evaluation of the effectiveness of automatic analysis algorithms in generalizing across d...