This paper investigates the problem of retrieving popular music by singing. In contrast to the retrieval of MIDI music, which is easy to acquire the main melody by the selection of the symbolic tracks, retrieving polyphonic objects in CD or MP3 format requires to extract the main melody directly from the accompanied singing signals, which proves difficult to handle well simply using the convent...

Sampling poses an interesting problem in markets with experience goods. Free samples reveal product quality and help consumers to make informed purchase decisions (promotional effect). However, sampling may also induce consumers to substitute purchases with free consumption (displacement effect). We study this trade-off in the market for digital music where consumers can sample the quality of s...

1 – Introduction In this work, we are presenting our approach to automatic genre classification for music files, or songs, which consists of audio files represented by a time series data, where the goal is to automatically process the files, to establish a genre assignment. Such applications that require automatic genre classification include internet radio stations that play similar songs base...

We report the results of a survey on music listening and management behaviours. The survey was conducted online with 222 participants with mostly technical backgrounds drawn from a college age population. The median size of offline music collections was found to be roughly 2540 songs (sum of physical media and digital files). The major findings of our survey show that elements such as familiari...

This study sought to understand what impact and role the performance of self-composed songs played in the therapeutic songwriting process for music therapy participants across their lifespan. Forty-five music therapy clinicians and researchers with established expertise in therapeutic songwriting were interviewed to gain their perspectives on a range of issues related to songwriting as a music ...

People are always fascinated by beauty of music during the long history of humanities. Various music genres and styles have emerged, reflecting the diversity of personalities in numerous cultures and age groups. It is hence not surprising that human tastes in music are remarkably diverse. Yahoo! Music has collected billions of user ratings for music pieces, which will reveal hidden information ...

background and purpose: due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. methods: the present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing canc...

Recent research has found that there is an overlap in the processing of music and speech in certain aspects. This research focuses on the relationship between the pitch of tones in language and the melody of songs. We present an automatic music composition system based on the prosody rules of Mandarin and we hypothesize that songs generated with our proposed system can help non-native Mandarin ...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and modern data mining techniques are applied to identify style markers in midi music for stylometric analysis and author attribution. Over 100 attributes are extracted from a library of 2830 songs then mined using supervised learning data mining techniques. Two attributes are identified that provide high informational gain. These attributes are then used as st...

Liangshan Yi folk song is an important part of traditional national music, songs are original ecological its vitality stronger, can well show the charm area music culture. The popular singing into integration make content richer, effectively improve skills through different forms singing, and finally get a more perfect effect. Therefore, this article will explore use in songs.