In this paper, we approach the tasks of beat tracking, downbeat recognition and rhythmic style classification in nonWestern music. Our approach is based on a Bayesian model, which infers tempo, downbeats and rhythmic style, from an audio signal. The model can be automatically adapted to rhythmic styles and time signatures. For evaluation, we compiled and annotated a music corpus consisting of e...

Background in music psychology and music computation. In Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1983), the authors try to formalize cognitive processes seen in music, referring to Chomskyan (generative) linguistics. Among other processes found in musical cognition (such as harmonic tension and detecting rhythmic patterns), Lerdahl and Jackendoff describe the process of group...

musical performances and synchronize prestored computer music accompaniments. The Interaction with computers in musical third project is a system for analyzing the performances is very much limited by a lack harmonic and rhythmic content of an of music understanding by computers. If improvised solo in order to follow a jazz computers do not understand musical improvisation. This work led to fur...

It is well established that emotional distractors enhance attentional control in demanding tasks such as the classic attentional blink paradigm (Olivers & Nieuwenhuis, 2005; Sussman, Heller, Miller, & Mohanty, 2013). By inducing a range of moods using music and memory generation, it has also been shown that the interaction of emotional valence and level of arousal have unique effects on second-...

Music separation methods are more demanding and complex, demanding system “training,” user designation of special music features, and audio processing time to support their complicated frameworks. Pattern extraction from music strings is an complex problem. The repeated sequence extracted from music strings can be used as features for music extracted or compared. various works on music pattern ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Older adults' gait is disturbed when a demanding secondary cognitive task is added. Gait training has been shown to improve older adults' walking performance, but it is not clear how training affects their cognitive performance. This study examined the impact on gait, in terms of cost or benefit to cognitive performance, of training healthy older adults to walk to a rhythmi...

The present study aims to the impact of music preferences on anger levels amongst undergraduate and postgraduate students. A survey was administered online (via Google Forms) offline a sample 210 individuals using convenience snowball sampling methods. Two tools were utilised in questionnaire - Music Preference Scale developed by Upadhyay colleagues Behavioural Anger Response Questionnaire. res...

While Professor of Solfège...and Harmony at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, he was both interested and troubled by his students’ rhythmic problems. He noticed that one of his students, despite his musical problems, was capable of walking rhythmically. His observation caused him to conclude that people possessed musical rhythm instinctively, but did not transfer these instincts to fulfill thei...

Recording music-related motions in ecological valid situations can be challenging. We investigate the performance of three devices providing 3D acceleration data, namely Axivity AX3, iPhone 4s and a Wii controller tracking rhythmic motions. The devices are benchmarked against an infrared motion capture system. The devices tracked simple and complex rhythmic motions to pre-recorded music and wer...

Much of music structure might appropriately be viewed as auralized mathematics. African and African Diasporic music traditions are areas of untapped potential for exploring this notion, particularly with respect to the ways in which the elements of pulse, cycle, and subpulse are manipulated in complex rhythmic structures. In this paper, we describe our preliminary investigations into the use of...