In human cultures, the perceptual categorization of musical pitches relies on pitch-naming systems. A sung pitch name concurrently holds the information of fundamental frequency and pitch name. These two aspects may be either congruent or incongruent with regard to pitch categorization. The present study aimed to compare the neuromagnetic responses to musical and verbal stimuli for congruency j...

In this article, cognitive and musicological aspects of pitch and pitch interval representations are explored via computational modeling. The specific task under investigation is pitch spelling, that is, how traditional score notation can be derived from a simple unstructured 12-tone representation (e.g., pitch-class set or MIDI pitch representation). This study provides useful insights both in...

transcription of a musical piece from an instrument to the other, is an age-old work in this field. we have scores from the renaissance period that don’t have any specific orchestration therefore could be performed with any combination of  instruments. also transcription of symphonies or operas for piano was common during the nineteenth century. we look over four editions of  bach’s first suite...

This paper presents a novel pitch tracking method in the time domain. Based on the difference function as used in YIN -referred to as the sum magnitude difference square function (SMDSF) thereinafter -we propose two modified types of SMDSFs, with several methods presented to calculate these SMDSFs efficiently and without bias by using the FFT algorithm. In pitch estimation, every type of SMDSF ...

Dynamic modeling of spoken dialogue seeks to capture how interlocutors change their speech over the course of a conversation. Much work has focused on how speakers adapt or entrain to different aspects of one another’s speaking style. In this paper we focus on local aspects of this adaptation. We investigate the relationship between backchannels and the interlocutor utterances that precede them...

Neuroimaging studies of pitch coding seek to identify pitch-related responses separate from responses to other properties of the stimulus, such as its energy onset, and other general aspects of the listening context. The current study reports the first attempt to evaluate these modulatory influences using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures of cortical pitch representations. S...