This paper proposes a robust and fast lyric search method for music information retrieval. Current lyric search systems by normal text retrieval techniques are severely deteriorated in the case that the queries of lyric phrases contain incorrect parts due to mishearing and misremembering. To solve this problem, the authors apply acoustic distance, which is computed based on a confusion matrix o...

Audio and lyric features are commonly considered in the research of music emotion recognition, whereas MIDI features are rarely used. Some research revealed that among the features employed in music emotion recognition, lyric has the best performance on valence, MIDI takes the second place, and audio is the worst. However, lyric cannot be found in some music types, such as instrumental music. I...

Lyrics are rich in features such as rhyme, pleasantness, similes, metaphors and more. Many of these features are exclusive to lyrics. We have estimated that more than two thousand Tamil lyrics are being created every year in various forms. Modeling the lyric-specific features becomes an essential task in organizing the lyrics for retrieval and analysis. In this paper, we propose three scoring m...

Background: There has been an increasing emphasis on recovery as the expectation for people with mental health disorders. Purpose: The purpose of this effectiveness study is to determine if group-based educational music therapy can immediately impact state hope for recovery in acute care mental health patients. Research questions included: will acute care mental health inpatients who participat...

Dante’s works contain a wealth of musical references, and his linguistic treatise, De vulgari eloquentia, is an invaluable source knowledge regarding the performance practice contemporary lyric poetry. Despite these indisputable facts, several scholars have cast doubt on actual knowledge, extent to which we can interpret references as representing historical practice. This paper explores issue ...

Automatic song writing aims to compose a (lyric and/or melody) by machine, which is an interesting topic in both academia and industry. In automatic writing, lyric-to-melody generation melody-to-lyric are two important tasks, of usually suffer from the following challenges: 1) paired lyric melody data limited, affects quality considering lot training needed due weak correlation between melody; ...

This paper begins by stressing the need f'or a more critical approach to the work of Katherine Mansfield, accounts of which tend often to rely on purely biographical material. After discussing the relative failure of In a Germán Pensión, which is attributed to a want of focus in the narrative point of view, the essay goes on to suggest that, in the iater work, the twin techniques of highlightin...