Background. Music has been seen as a motivator to help individuals who are not persistent enough to do a full set of exercises. However, the effect of long-term using music has not been determined, especially for amateur students who participated in Physical Education courses. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of popular music on female physical fitness students w...

This thesis contributes to bridging the gap between music information retrieval (MIR) and musicology. We present several automated methods for music analysis, which are motivated by concrete application scenarios being of central importance in musicology. In this context, the automated music analysis is performed on the basis of audio material. Here, one reason is that for a given piece of musi...

music is a social phenomenon that is in conjunction with many aspects of human beings’ life today. in recent years, some forms of music have become widespread that are not from indigenous origins. indeed, these are new forms that challenge iranian cultural values. meanwhile, youth are the main consumers of these forms of music. because many of youth who are heavy consumers of music are living i...

This thesis focused on the application of evolutionary computational techniques for music composition. Conventionally, the music evaluator in an evolutionary music composition system is either a human operating the system interactively, or a knowledge-based system. The objective of this study was to investigate a novel approach to music composition that combines a machine-learning based evaluat...

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...

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...

This study investigated the influence of music on the rating of perceived exertion (RPE) and attentional focus during walking at a self-selected pace. Fifteen overweight and obese women volunteered to participate in the study. They underwent four sessions: the first for incremental maximal test and anthropometric measurement followed by three experimental sessions. After the first session, they...

Music plays an important role in the socialization of children and adolescents. Popular music is present almost everywhere, and it is easily available through the radio, various recordings, the Internet, and new technologies, allowing adolescents to hear it in diverse settings and situations, alone or shared with friends. Parents often are unaware of the lyrics to which their children are liste...

We present a novel approach to clustering and classification of music, based on the concept of interval categories. Six interval categories exist, each with its own musical character. A piece of music can be represented by six numbers, reflecting the percentages of occurrences of each interval category. A piece of music can, in this way, be visualized as a point in a six dimensional space. The ...