most islamic philosophers consider music as one the four elements of mathematics following aristotle’s quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. however, the philosophers usually avoid engaging the issues related to what music really does when perceived by man and how it can improve the life of man on earth. at the same time, sufists and mystics manly focus on the later issue. bas...

This paper presents Search Inside the Music an application for exploring and discovering new music. Search Inside the Music uses a music similarity model and 3D visualizations to provide a user with new tools for exploring and interacting with a music collection. With Search Inside the Music, a music listener can find new music, generate interesting playlists, and interact with their music coll...

IntroductIon Is music a form of knowledge? Probably not, even if music is undoubtedly an important part of our cultural heritage. Music is not a type of knowledge, at least in first approximation, because music has no consensual, shared meaning. One of the main reasons why music has no meaning, as opposed to text or even pictures, is that music is not referential: music is made of elements (not...

Indian classical music, including its two varieties, Carnatic and Hindustani music, has a rich music tradition and enjoys a wide audience from various parts of the world. The Carnatic music which is more popular in South India still continues to be uninfluenced by other music traditions and is one of the purest forms of Indian music. Like other music traditions, Carnatic music also has develope...

introduction: music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. an important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. in this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. methods: we used eeg recording in nine subjects...

ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. the term ‘ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different rhythms of music on some central and peripheral fatigue indices in non-athlete young females. for this purpose, 38 healthy female students were randomly divided into three groups: fast music group or exp1 (n=13, m+sd age: 22+2 years), slow music group or exp2 (n=13, m+sd age: 23+2 years) and control group (n=12,m+sd age: 23+2 year...