We wanted to learn whether activity in the same area(s) of the brain correlate with the experience of beauty derived from different sources. 21 subjects took part in a brain-scanning experiment using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Prior to the experiment, they viewed pictures of paintings and listened to musical excerpts, both of which they rated on a scale of 1-9, with 9 being the most...

One of the major obstacles to appreciating classical music is that extensive training is required to understand musical structure and compositional techniques towards comprehending the thoughts behind the musical work. In this thesis, we propose an innovative visualization solution to reveal the semantic structure in classical orchestral work, such that users can gain insights into musical stru...

Music is beautiful, and music communication is a dissemination of beauty, which could make more people enjoy that kind of beauty. MicroBlogging, as a new media, is more and more popular for users, especially for younger people. The timeliness of Microblogging makes it more convenient for music communication on the Internet. In this paper, we study how a musical event is propagated according to ...

The purpose of the study was to test whether aesthetic judgments of music are affected by expertise or harmonic violation of musical sequences. The participants were 14 musical experts and 13 laypersons; they were asked to judge the beauty and correctness of extracts from J. S. Bach's chorales. Experts and laypersons showed different late positive potential (LPP) responses to the appraisal of c...

believe in armageddon is one of the tree principal rules of islam, that all muslims in different branches believe in it. the holy quran in many parts, talks in believing in god, besides believing in armageddon. and try to show sights of armageddon in about 80 chapters. sound reviewing plays an important role in stylistic analyses, and is the first point in literature reviews. as the sound is th...

In recent decades, beauty has become a largely unfashionable, even offensive notion within art and philosophy. As Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart, has pointed out, this offence has a twofold sense. Firstly, the ‘beautiful’ has been dismissed as philosophically insignificant in comparison to the ‘sublime’ by an intellectual tradition tracing itself back to Immanuel Kant’s Critiqu...

Can machine learning algorithms be trained to recognise beauty in music? To what extent is human recognition of beauty in music cultural, or crosscultural? Music is prevalent in all human cultures. Music information retrieval is a growing field in which computational techniques have been applied to many musical problems such as genre recognition and measuring musical similarity. Computational e...

A listener’s aesthetic engagement with a musical piece often reaches peaks in response to passages experienced as especially beautiful. The present study examined the extent which responses such self-identified beautiful (BPs), self-selected music, may be distinguishable terms of their affective qualities. In an online survey, participants indicated pieces they considered specific outstandingly...

We investigated whether music experts and laypersons differ with regard to aesthetic evaluation of musical sequences. 16 music experts and 16 music laypersons judged the aesthetic value (beauty judgment task) as well as the harmonic correctness (correctness judgment task) of chord sequences. The sequences consisted of five chords with the final chord sounding congruous, ambiguous or incongruous...

among the most common type of literary, aesthetic and lyric literature by having the elements and themesimagery provides a good platform to analyze the structure of the word external and internal relationships because relationships based on the form and structure of speech is considered so by what is in the form of content main purpose of the speaker is the approach to the structure of the styl...