Spoken language is a result of the human capacity to assemble simple vocal units into more complex utterances, the basic carriers of semantic information. Not much is known about the evolutionary origins of this behaviour. The vocal abilities of non-human primates are relatively unimpressive in comparison, with gibbon songs being a rare exception. These apes assemble a repertoire of call notes ...

Mate choice is among the most consequential decisions a sexually reproducing organism can make. In many songbird species, females make mate-choice decisions based, in part, on variation between males in songs that reflect their quality. Importantly, females may adjust their choice relative to the prevalence of high quality songs. In European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), females prefer males th...

This paper builds an understanding how music is currently listened to by small (fewer than 10 individuals) to medium-sized (10 to 40 individuals) gatherings of people—how songs are chosen for playing, how the music fits in with other activities of group members, who supplies the music, the hardware/software that supports song selection and presentation. This fine-grained context emerges from a ...

The analysis of expressive performance, an important research topic in Computer Music, is almost exclusively devoted to the study of Western Classical piano music. Instruments like the acoustic guitar and styles like Bossa Nova and Samba have been little studied, despite their harmonic and rhythmic richness. This paper describes some experimental results obtained with the extraction of rhythmic...

In an attempt to explain the variation within this species and clarify the subspecies classification, an analysis of the genetic, calling songs, and morphological variations within the species Gampsocleis sedakovii is presented from Inner Mongolia, China. Recordings were compared of the male calling songs and analysis performed of selected acoustic variables. This analysis is combined with sequ...

We present a new approach to evaluate chord recognition systems on songs which do not have full annotations. The principle is to use online chord databases to generate high accurate “pseudo annotations” for these songs and compute “pseudo accuracies” of test systems. Statistical models that model the relationship between “pseudo accuracy” and real performance are then applied to estimate test s...

Proper nouns are names for unique persons, places, and things. One of these “things” can be songs. Songs have specific names, such as “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” or “Jingle Bells.” When you hear a song, you often think of its name. We conducted a scientific study to find out which parts of the brain are important for naming a famous song. We already had some clues about which brain region mig...

This research aims to determine the value themes in examples of Turkish Folk Music registered TRT repertoire and whose source person is Aşık Davut Sulari raise awareness context use our within scope values education given Music, Literature courses. 
 The material group study consists 18 folk songs Sulari. These songs, which constitute central theme study, were determined through a literatu...