This manuscript was abstracted from a lecture for grand rounds for medical physicians. This paper explores the science of how music can help induce sleep relieves anxiety, and pain in patients. This method has been practiced from decades as a way to treat neurological conditions. Now, advances in neuroscience and brain imaging are revealing what is actually happening in the brain as patients li...

The Mozart Programming System is a development platform designed for distributed programming sym bolic computation and constraint based inferenc ing This article gives a survey of the abilities of Mozart for open concurrent resource aware dis tributed computing We show by example how easy it is to develop applications with these properties This makes Mozart particularly well suited for build in...

New approaches have always been explored by music education researchers in helping students to perform at their optimum level learning processes. The main purpose of this research is investigate the effect background on Origami task performance among pre-school children aged five and six years old. Many types were done topic spatial performance, however, little was group using as a measurement ...

IN TONAL MUSIC, PATTERNS OF TENSION AND resolution form one of the core principles evoking emotions. The experience of musical tension and resolution depends on various features of the music (e.g., dynamics, agogics, melody, and harmony); however, the relative contribution of different features to the experience of tension is less clear. To investigate the influence of different features on sub...

In this paper the instructors describe a new team-taught transdisciplinary seminar, "Music and Mind: The Science of Musical Experience." The instructors, with backgrounds in music and neuroscience, valued the interdisciplinary approach as a way to capture student interest and to reflect the inherent interconnectivity of neuroscience. The course covered foundational background information about ...

In tonal music, patterns of tension and resolution form one of the core principles evoking emotions. The experience of musical tension and resolution depends on various features of the music (e.g., dynamics, agogics, melody, and harmony), however, the relative contribution of different features to the experience of tension is less clear. To investigate the influence of different features on sub...

Thus far, we have been automatizing the time-span analysis of Jackendoff and Lehrdahl’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM). We have also introduced the distance between two time-span trees and verified by an experiment that the distance was properly supported by the psychological similarity. In this paper, we synthesize a new piece of music using the algebraic operations on timespan trees,...

A variety of tools exist in hardware and software for mixing dance music. These work by estimating the “beats-perminute” count of music with heavy beats. These tools aid a DJ in finding the appropriate speed change and time shift to smoothly combine or transition between two pieces of music. In this work, we present a method for finding these alignments and combining a wider class of songs with...

Harmonic analysis is a standard musicological tool for understanding many pieces of Western classical music and making comparisons among them. Traditionally, this analysis is done on paper scores, and most past research in machine-assisted analysis has begun with digital representations of them. Human music students are also taught to hear their musical analyses, however, in both musical record...

OBJECTIVE Listening to Mozart K.448 has been demonstrated to improve spatial task scores, leading to what is known as the Mozart Effect. However, most of these reports only describe the phenomena but lack the scientific evidence needed to properly investigate the mechanism of Mozart Effect. In this study, we used electroencephalography (EEG) and heart rate variability (HRV) to evaluate the effe...