This practice paper explores the intersection of school studio-music pedagogy and positive psychology in order to enhance students' learning and engagement. The paper has a practitioner focus and puts forward a new model of studio teaching, the Positive Instruction in Music Studios (PIMS) model that guides teachers through four key positive psychology processes that can be used in a music lesso...

Along with the rapid expansion of digital music formats, managing and searching for songs has become significant. Though music information retrieval (MIR) techniques have been made successfully in last ten years, the development of music recommender systems is still at a very early stage. Therefore, this paper surveys a general framework and state-of-art approaches in recommending music. Two po...

Music genre meta-data is of paramount importance for the organization of music repositories. People use genre in a natural way when entering a music store or looking into music collections. Automatic genre classification has become a popular topic in music information retrieval research both with digital audio and symbolic data. This work focuses on the symbolic approach, bringing to music cogn...

Music is an art form that is created by people who draw inspiration from a variety of sources. However, the basis of music is an organization of sound frequencies, timed in a certain manner. Using the basic principles of music, it is possible to develop a mechanism for the automatic generation of music. The goal of this research project is to explore the mapping of cellular models into musical ...

Self-organizing maps (SOMs, Kohonen, 1982) have been extensively used as information processing models in music perception. Using a corpus that represents tonal regularities in Western music, Tillmann et.al (2000) developed a schema of Western tonal music. Krumhansl, et.al (2000) showed that melodic expectancy in Finnish music could be modeled by SOMs trained on samples of Finnish music. Recent...

The benefit of auditory models for solving three music recognition tasks—onset detection, pitch estimation, and instrument recognition—is analyzed. Appropriate features are introduced which enable the use of supervised classification. The auditory model-based approaches are tested in a comprehensive study and compared to state-of-the-art methods, which usually do not employ an auditory model. F...

While the use of music to accompany moving images is widespread, the information behaviour, communicative practice and decision making by creative professionals within this area of the music industry is an underresearched area. This investigation discusses the use of music in films and advertising focusing on communication and meaning of the music and introduces a reflexive communication model....

Humans move to the beat of music. Despite the ubiquity and early emergence of this response, some individuals report being unable to feel the beat in music. We report a sample of people without special training, all of whom were proficient at perceiving and producing the musical beat with the exception of one case ("Mathieu"). Motion capture and psychophysical tests revealed that people synchro...