Abstract Task-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. The present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. To this purpose, an Oxford Placement Test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. The selecte...

Abstract Task-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. The present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. To this purpose, an Oxford Placement Test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. The selecte...

abstracttask-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. the present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. to this purpose, an oxford placement test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. the selected...

The perception of music has been investigated by several neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods. Results from these studies suggest a right hemisphere dominance for non-musicians and a possible left hemisphere dominance for musicians. However, inconsistent results have been obtained, and not all variables have been controlled by the different methods. We performed a study with functional t...

A variety of approaches exist to the automatic retrieval of the key part within a musical piece its thumbnail. Most of these however do not use adequate modeling with respect to either harmony or rhythm. In this work we therefore introduce thumbnailing that aims at adequate musical feature modeling. The rhythmic structure is extracted to obtain a segmentation based on beats and bars by an IIR c...

Many naturally occurring phenomena such as music, speech, or human motion are inherently sequential. Complex sequences are often non-local (longterm temporal dependencies) and high-dimensional (multi-modal conditional distribution). For the example of polyphonic music, these properties represent the basic components of Western music, namely rhythm and harmony. Here we wish to exploit the recurr...

There is a paucity of studies on rhythm in world music in general and with regard to Arabic and Oriental cultures in particular. Musicological studies predominantly focus on acoustical scales, modes, timbre, harmony, etc., unfortunately neglecting a fundamental aspect of music, that is, rhythm and its complex relationship to melody, the accentuation of words in a given language, the intonation ...

Recent developments are presented in the evolution of Harmony Space, a highly enabling interface designed to encourage and facilitate rapid learning, especially by beginners, about the practical use and theory of tonal harmony, especially as applied to composition and analysis. The interface exploits both cognitive theories of tonal harmony and principles of human-computer interaction. In parti...

abstract       this study shows that how each composer creates a colorful choral folksong picture, gives an individual  interpretation and new life to a folk melody, and also makes an independent musical work. the present article studies the choral arrangement of the iranian folk songs as a creative musical genre of the modern iranian music. the importance of this genre involves in several chal...