Crossmodal music-to-color correspondences are mediated by emotion for classical music (Palmer et al., 2013) and diverse other genres. People tend to choose colors as going best with music when both have similar emotional associations (e.g., happy-looking colors go best with happy-sounding music). Lower level musical stimuli, including single-line melodies, two-note intervals, and instrumental t...

Optical music recognition (OMR) is one of the most promising tools for generating large-scale, distributable libraries of musical data. Much OMR work has focussed on instrumental music, avoiding a special challenge vocal music poses for OMR: lyric recognition. Lyrics complicate the page layout, making it more difficult to identify the regions of the page that carry musical notation. Furthermore...

In this PET study, non-musicians passively listened to unfamiliar instrumental music revealed afterward to elicit strongly pleasant feelings. Activations were observed in the subcallosal cingulate gyrus, prefrontal anterior cingulate, retrosplenial cortex, hippocampus, anterior insula, and nucleus accumbens. This is the first observation of spontaneous responses in such limbic and paralimbic ar...

OBJECTIVES To examine the ability of congenitally deaf children to recognize music from incidental exposure and the relations among age at implantation, music listening, and word recognition. DESIGN Seventeen child implant users who were 4 to 8 yr of age were tested on their recognition and liking of musical excerpts from their favorite television programs. They were also assessed on open-set...

Figure 1. Schematics of the three musical memory tasks and corresponding performance of PM and control subjects. Subjects listened to matched pairs of instrumental classical music and had to decide which excerpt sounded more familiar. Pieces were closely matched for musical character and instrumental line-up. White dots, Berlin Philharmonic string players; grey dots, active amateur musicians; e...

NLN-live is a dynamic score system for nonlinear and interactive instrumental music performances, based on music technologies used in video games. The goal of NLN-live is to facilitate dynamically controlled collaborative performances that make live interactive video games music possible. The principle of NLN-live is simple: every musician of an ensemble repeatedly plays two fragments of music ...

In musical instrument training, researchers have gradually started exploring the potential of interactive technologies supporting learning processes and teaching methods. Although numerous technological tools been proposed to enhance teaching, these methods rarely find their way into daily practice routines. this study, we report data from an online survey study administered violin drum kit tea...