Three experiments used word-spotting to examine influences of phonetic and musical parameters on intelligibility of closed-set but unpredictable words in polytextual singing. Main comparisons were: 3 musical genres (medieval polyphonic motet, similar but homophonic motet, jingle); harmony (consonant, dissonant); keyword phonetic properties (‘acoustic contrast’, vowel length, vowel quality); con...

The analysis of musical interpretation, an important research topic in Computer Music, is usually focused on the study of musical dimensions like harmony and melody for piano music. Despite its obvious importance in expressive performance, rhythm is somewhat neglected as well as guitar music. This paper introduces a novel algorithm for the automatic discovery of right hand fingering in guitar a...

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the self-efficacy pre-primary teachers for musical aptitude, such as pitch and rhythm, whether there is a significant change in through individual practice instruction Chorubungen exercises eight weeks. Another relationship between experience musicality pre-service teachers, their achievement. To end, survey conducted at end semester first-year s...

The output data from a structure is the building block for output-only modal analysis. The structure response in the output data, however, is usually contaminated with noise. Naturally, the success of output-only methods in determining the modal parameters of a structure depends on noise level. In this paper, the possibility and accuracy of identifying the modal parameters of a simply supported...

Japanese and English speech structures are different in terms of harmony, rhythm, and frequency of sound. Voice samples of 5 native speakers of English and Japanese were collected and analyzed through fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation, and statistical analysis. The harmony of language refers to the spatial frequency content of speech and is analyzed through two different measures, Harmoni...

this study contains the identification of modal dynamic properties of a 3-story large-scale steel test frame structure through shaking table measurements. shaking table test is carried out to estimate the modal properties of the test frame such as natural frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes. among many different model structures, arx (auto recursive exogenous) model structure is used fo...

The heart rhythm is directly related to the electrical activity of the heart. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is generally used for obtaining information about the heart rhythm. In this paper, a method for calculating heart rhythm variation using the Phonocardiogram (PCG) and a method for finding characteristics of the that signal is described. The average heart rate is calculated from the Shannon ener...

well-known seismic design codes have offered an alternative equivalent static procedure for practical purposes instead of verifying design trials with complicated step-y-step dynamic analyses. such a pattern of base-shear distribution over the building height will enforce its special stiffness and strength distribution which is not necessarily best suited for seismic design. the present study, ...

The study was conducted aiming to find the aesthetic values that exist in mosque building ornament city of Padang. development and spirit changing times has accompanied Mosque Padang City, not only function role Mosque, but also seen from model ornaments attached building. To achieve this goal approach used paper is approach, multi-disciplinary approach. value can be viewed through quality stru...