This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics. Twenty-seven participants listened to recordings of musical passages sung in English; each passage consisted of a brief musical phrase sung by a solo voice. Six vocalists produced the corpus of sung phrases. Eight hypotheses derived from common phonological and prosodic principles were tested. Inte...

Background Mood-Congruent Memory (MCM) is defined as the observation that a given mood tends to enhance the encoding or retrieval of target events that are similar in valence or mood. Mood induction has been used to study MCM in the lab. Two common methods are the Velten Mood Induction Procedure (VMIP) and the Music Mood Induction Technique (MMIT). A potential problem with VMIP is it may lead t...

This paper presents a singing recording system, VocaRefiner, that enables a singer to make a better singing recording by integrating multiple recordings of a song he or she has sung repeatedly. It features a function called clickable lyrics, with which the singer can click a word in the displayed lyrics to start recording from that word. Clickable lyrics facilitate efficient multiple recordings...

We propose two novel lyrics-to-audio alignment methods which make use of additional chord information. In the first method we extend an existing hidden Markov model (HMM) for lyrics alignment [1] by adding a chord model based on the chroma features often used in automatic audio chord detection. However, the textual transcriptions found on the Internet usually provide chords only for the first a...

Several music information retrieval (MIR) systems have been developed which retrieve musical pieces by the user’s singing voice. All of these systems use only melody information for retrieval, although lyrics information is also useful for retrieval. In this paper, we propose an MIR system that uses both melody and lyrics information in the singing voice. The MIR system verifies hypotheses outp...

Pink Floyd was a British band whose work began in the late 60s. Roger Waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. He deliberately attacks Western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. The present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...

The existence of cultural gaps causes problems in translation process and harms the aesthetic aspects of texts. In this paper, it was tried to recognize the factors which cause inconsistency between the style of original lyrics and its translations and also find out which translation strategies increase the rate of this distortion. The framework of the study was translation quality assessment b...

In this paper, we present a system for automatic alignment of textual lyrics with musical audio. Given an input audio signal, structural segmentation is first performed and similar segments are assigned a label by computing the distance between the segment pairs. Using the results of segmentation and hand-labeled paragraphs in lyrics as a pair of input strings, we apply a dynamic programming (D...

Sentiment prediction of contemporary music can have a wide-range of applications in modern society, for instance, selecting music for public institutions such as hospitals or restaurants to potentially improve the emotional well-being of personnel, patients, and customers, respectively. In this project, music recommendation system built upon on a naive Bayes classifier, trained to predict the s...

The paper discusses some aspects of a work in progress aimed at the development of technologies for digitization of Bulgarian folk music and building a digital library with Bulgarian folk songs presented with their music, texts and notes. This library provides digital preservation of the sound recordings, lyrics and notations of more than 1000 Bulgarian folk songs and tools for various types of...