Studies of tuning systems established in different historical and ethnic cultures suggest that their evolution is mainly dependent on two different, mathematically incompatible, principles: equidistance, based on a mostly logarithmic perception of the audible frequency range, and harmonic consonance generated by simple integer pitch ratios (SIPR). Since for tuning systems the number of relevant...

The practice of harmonic mixing is a technique used by DJs for the beat-synchronous and harmonic alignment of two or more pieces of music. In this paper, we present a new harmonic mixing method based on psychoacoustic principles. Unlike existing commercial DJ-mixing software which determine compatible matches between songs via key estimation and harmonic relationships in the circle of fifths, o...

When two notes are played simultaneously they form a musical dyad. The sensation of pleasantness, or "consonance", of a dyad is likely driven by the harmonic relation of the frequency components of the combined spectrum of the two notes. Previous work has demonstrated a relation between individual preference for consonant over dissonant dyads, and the strength of neural temporal coding of the h...

The auditory cortex is well-known to be critical for music perception, including the perception of consonance and dissonance. Studies on the neural correlates of consonance and dissonance perception have largely employed non-invasive electrophysiological and functional imaging techniques in humans as well as neurophysiological recordings in animals, but the fine-grained spatiotemporal dynamics ...

Describing the link between culture (as a phenomenon pertaining to social aggregates) and the beliefs and behaviors of individuals has eluded satisfactory resolution; however, contemporary cognitive culture theory offers hope. In this theory, culture is conceptualized as cognitive models describing specific domains of life that are shared by members of a social group. It is sharing that gives c...

Neuroimaging work has shed light on the cerebral architecture involved in processing the melodic and harmonic aspects of music. Here, recent evidence is reviewed illustrating that subcortical auditory structures contribute to the early formation and processing of musically relevant pitch. Electrophysiological recordings from the human brainstem and population responses from the auditory nerve r...

Pitch is the perceptual correlate of sound’s periodicity and a fundamental property of the auditory sensation. The interaction of two or more pitches gives rise to a sensation that can be characterized by its degree of consonance or dissonance, an essential element in the perception of highly complex sound patterns. In the current study, we investigated the neuromagnetic representations of cons...

In this article significance of Great Kazakh poet Abay in Uzbek culture, influence culture founder Navoiy on his formation are considered. Having similar language, literature, history, religion and traditions -Uzbek nations have deep roots literary-cultural relations. Range these relations is very wide terms time space. Therefore, issues related to topic analyzed within the article. presented b...