abstract despite the existence of long-standing ties between poetry and music, sanāyi, the famous poet of the sixth century, was a serious opponent unlike many other poets. he overtly blamed music as erotic art and composed poems blaming music. the author describes sanāyi’s opinion about music in this paper and explores the terms of his disagreement. in the meantime, social backgrounds of his o...

Music now plays an increasing role in several disparate areas. Music therapy appears to affect physiological phenomen such as blood pressure, heart beat, respiration, and mydriasis as well as emotional aspects such as mood and feelings. It is used in the rehabilitation of patients with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, fibromyalgia, stroke, aphasia and visual rehabilitation. Music in the patient w...

research on popular music in iran has a short history. perhaps the article “sociology of the music of the masses in iran”, published in 1980, can be considered as the first methodological and systematic study on the popular music in iran.  in that article, the researcher, using marxist and neo-marxist approaches to study popular music, provides a general view on the music of the masses of the p...

A model for the internal representation of pitch sequences in tonal music is advanced. This model assumes that pitch sequences are retained as hierarchical networks. At each level of the hierarchy, elements are organized as structural units in accordance with laws of figural goodness, such as proximity and good continuation. Further, elements that are present at each hierarchical level are elab...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of receptive music therapy in clinical practice. METHODS Receptive music therapy was individually applied via musical auditions, including five stages: musical stimulation, sensation, situation, reflection, and behavioral alteration. Following anamnesis and obtainment of consent, patients answered a first questionnaire on health risk evaluation (Q1), and a...

This paper describes VExPat, a system that assists on the task of extracting patterns from musical sequences. Although there are known algorithms that perform this task efficiently, none of the existing analysis tools provide this functionality. Furthermore, VExPat provides a user-friendly interface, with score visualization and musical execution facilities, allowing its use even by computer no...

Ultra-low delay sensitive applications can a‚ord delay only at the level of msec. An example of this application class are the Networked Music Performance (NMP) systems that describe a live music performance by geographically separate musicians over the Internet. Œe present work proposes a novel architecture for NMP systems, where the key-innovation is the close collaboration between the networ...

Command line version • developed for use in an introductory Computer Music course • also available to students enrolled in general Music Theory courses • used to demonstrate elements of psychoacoustics • provides access to the internal structure of sounds • learning rudiments of C++ that will enable the students to modify the code to better fit their needs Script version • uses a script (text f...

We report here about our submissions to the music mood classification tasks for the MIREX 2010 evaluations. Our classification algorithm is using a weighted sum of Support Vector Machines models. 1. FEATURE EXTRACTION This submission is coded in C++ and python. For the feature extraction part, we use an internal library of the Music Technology Group called Essentia [2]. This library contains al...

Imponderable Sound is sonic art that is inaudible and is composed by using only infrasonic frequencies or infrasound. Infrasound (sound that operates below the average hearing spectrum) is a vibration that can be detected through the body via the bones, skin and internal organs and is then interpreted by the brain in the same way that music is interpreted when perceived by the ears. This means ...