The brain which is composed of more than 100 billion nerve cells is a sophisticated biochemical factory. For many years, neurologists, psychotherapists, researchers, and other health care professionals have studied the human brain. With the development of computer and information technology, it makes brain complex spectrum analysis to be possible and opens a highlight field for the study of bra...

In this paper we construct networks for music and attempt to compose music artificially. Networks are constructed with nodes and edges corresponding to musical notes and their co-occurring connections.We analyze classicalmusic fromBach,Mozart, Chopin, aswell as other types of music such as Chinese popmusic. We observe remarkably similar properties in all networks constructed from the selected c...

Harmony is a fundamental attribute of music. Close connections exist between music and mathematics since both pursue harmony and unity. In music, the consonance of notes played simultaneously partly determines our perception of harmony; associates with aesthetic responses; and influences the emotion expression. The consonance could be considered as a window to understand and analyze harmony. He...

In this study, a computational model that aims at the automatic discrimination of different human music performers playing the same piece is presented. The proposed model is based on the note level and does not require any deep (e.g., structural or harmonic, etc.) analysis. A set of measures that attempts to capture both the style of the author and the style of the piece is introduced. The pres...

the present article aims to address the basic principles of interpretation in the music of the classical era by drawing upon issues of aesthetics and performance practice in the works of w.a. mozart. a comparative review of the classic treatises, as well as a thorough survey of the writings of contemporary authors on performance practice, and personal experience as a flautist, has guided the au...

In music there are several terms permanently used, whose meaning changed in time, depending on the historical moment or cultural space; among them, consonance and dissonance, diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic. Tonality appeared during baroque era and was finalized by J.S. Bach. After that, it grew up in the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt – for about 150 years. At the end of ...

In this paper we present preliminary work examining the relationship between the formation of expectations and the realization of musical performances, paying particular attention to expressive tempo and dynamics. To compute features that reflect what a listener is expecting to hear, we employ a computational model of auditory expectation called the Information Dynamics of Music model (IDyOM). ...

The perceptual importance of timbre variations was investigated in clarinet expressive music performance. Three basic transformations acting on timbre, rhythm and dynamics and four combinations of them were applied to solo clarinet recordings in order to remove or flatten some of the expressive variations of the performer. Twenty skilled musicians were asked to choose the interpretations they p...

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