The studies on the literary genre “gospel” are often compared with so-called Greco-Roman bíoi and popular literature. points of contact numerous undeniable. As well as differences peculiarities gospels, whose link Hebrew Bible is a unicum to be taken into account. In particular, typology, its network references, makes canonical gospels text proceeding through continuous phenomena association re...

The impact of music and its psychological and physiological changes during exercise is issue that has always been focused on sport science experts. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of musical exercise on aerobic capacity and quality of life in elderly men. This study was conducted on 45 elderly men. The participants were randomly allocated into three groups: aerobic musical exer...

A singing transcription system which transcribes human singing voice to musical notes is described in this paper. The fact that human singing rarely follows standard musical scale makes it a challenge to implement such a system. This system utilizes some new methods to deal with the issue of imprecise musical scale of input voice of a human singer, such as spectral standard deviation used for n...

Look at the life around you. Everywhere, you are confronted with modularity and repetition, from the leaves and branches on plants, to your hair and the skeletal and other structures within you. Modularity, segmentation, and repetition are, like measures and tones in music, the way in which the living opus has been assembled by the composing processes of evolution. In his elegant book Evolution...

Objective: The aims of the present study was to develop and validate a quick repetition test using familiar, culture-based words for the assessment of the Farsi speaking children suffering from Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). Method: The study population was divided into two groups, including 419 participants without any clinical signs of speech impairment and 36 cases with SSD. Psychometric pro...

Being able to express oneself musically and experiment with music composition is traditionally determined by one’s ability to play an actual instrument with a certain degree of craftsmanship. The lack of skills often makes it difficult to make children and young people experience the joy of musical creativity, which is an essential element in music education. This paper presents a pilot project...

In this paper we present Improvasher a real-time musical accompaniment system which creates an automatic mashup to accompany live musical input. Improvasher is built around two music processing modules, the first, a performance following technique, makes beat-synchronous predictions of chroma features from a live musical input. The second, a music mashup system, determines the compatibility bet...

Music and creative music making in different forms is important in young peoples’ lives. Children learn many things about music on their own by taking part in the growing production of musical cultures that media makes available. The media revolution has produced new tools for creative musical activities. Computer and synthesiser have become important tools for young people to express themselve...

Pitch, our perception of how high or low a sound is on a musical scale, crucially depends on a sound's periodicity. If an acoustic signal is temporally jittered so that it becomes aperiodic, the pitch will no longer be perceivable even though other acoustical features that normally covary with pitch are unchanged. Previous electrophysiological studies investigating pitch have typically used onl...