This study investigates the possibilities of fostering learning based on differences in recall and comprehension after learning with texts which were presented in one of three modalities: either in a spoken, written, or sung version. All three texts differ regarding their processing, especially when considering working memory. Overall, we assume the best recall performance after learning with t...

Laterality for the processing of melody and timbre was investigated in 64 right-handed non-musicians. In one block of dichotic-listening trials, participants listened for a prespecified target melody, and in a second block they listened for a prespecified target instrument. Females were more accurate on the left ear in the melody task (whereas males tended to show no ear advantage), but there w...

The problem of musical query processing can be envisioned as a substring-matching problem when the melody is represented as a sequence of notes associated with a set of attributes. In comparison of two musical sequences, one of the important problems is to determine the weights of each operation. This paper presents an alternate weighting-scheme which is based on diatonic distinctions on melody...

This paper describes a method for melody detection in polyphonic musical signals. Our approach starts by obtaining a set of pitch candidates for each time frame, with recourse to an auditory model. Trajectories of the most salient pitches are then constructed. Next, note candidates are obtained by trajectory segmentation (in terms of frequency and pitch salience variations). Too short, low-sali...

MIREX 2005 is the second evaluation of algorithms related to music information retrieval (MIR). This document describes our submission to the MIREX audio melody extraction contest addressing the task of identifying the melody pitch contour from polyphonic musical audio. We use mainly a data-driven approach – implementing standard audio signal processing techniques like Fourier analysis, instant...

In the adult brain, melody and rhythm processing have been found to show different hemispheric dominance, with the right hemisphere apparently more sensitive to melody and the left hemisphere to rhythm. We used a novel, child-friendly scanning protocol to examine the neural basis of melody and rhythm processing in young children (mean age 6 years 4 months, n=33). FMRI data were acquired using a...

In this work a melody extraction technique is introduced to the MIREX 2008 campaign. The task’s objective consists in estimating the pitch of the main melody in polyphonic audio. The proposed method is based in three separate modules. The first one evaluates the presence of quasi-stationary harmonic sources in a frame level based approach. Next, sources are tracked using the output of the first...

With the increasing scale of the melody database, the query-by-humming system faces the trade-offs between response speed and retrieval accuracy. Melody accurate matching is the key factor to restrict the response speed. In this paper, we present a GPU acceleration method for melody accurate matching, in order to improve the response speed without reducing retrieval accuracy. The method develop...

This paper introduces a way to generate or modify a melody using the editable noise function. The band-limited random numbers generated by the noise function are converted to the various property values of notes such as pitch and duration. Using this technique, we can modify an existing melody to produce new, similar melodies. The noise values can be edited, if necessary, while preserving the s...