“I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative swiftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single...

Increased levels of stress are more frequent in the hearing-impaired population than in normal-hearing people. Because of the high frequency of stress in the hearing-impaired population and the ability of music to reduce stress, Widex has included a feature in the high end mind440 hearing aid which allows users to listen to a choice of diff erent music styles. Generally researchers agree that m...

This paper describes a tempo estimation algorithm submitted to the MIREX 2011, and is an extension of the work presented in [2]. Using the tempo estimation results from four different approaches (BeatIt, Ellis, Davies and MPEG7-XM), we use a heuristic strategy to obtain the slow and fast tempo from audio music combinig their results, based on the hypothesis that the tatum and tactus tempo hiera...

In spite of all these advantages, databases are rarely used in either case. Programs, like compilers, must run extremely fast, and slow access combined with memory overhead makes databases impractical for this particular application. Small programs like the home music catalog do not use databases because they are expensive and require additional resources. Also, the programmer must learn how to...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effect of music on pain, anxiety and vital signs in children undergoing colonoscopy.   Method and Materials: This randomized study was carried out on 101 children (7 to 14 years old) requiring colonoscopy. Children were randomly allocated to a control or case group. The case group was played relaxing music (by Clayderman) during the procedure. S...

Tempo is one factor that is frequently associated with the expressive nature of a piece of music. Composers often indicate the tempo of a piece of music through the use of numerical markings (beats min(-1)) and subjective terms (adagio, allegro). Three studies were conducted to assess whether listeners were able to make consistent judgments about tempo that varied from piece to piece. Listeners...

Some veterinary students experience elevated stress, anxiety, and depression resulting in disease and psychological changes. Elevated arousal, negative moods, and lack of interest can negatively affect performance and learning. Psychoacoustic music promotes calming effects using simple and slow piano sounds and can positively impact well-being and functioning. This pilot study assessed the effe...

It has been estimated that the average Westerner hears music for three and a half hours per day, most of which is in a linear form. Like being locked onto a straight train track, it has been composed to start at one point and progress to another point. 3 A composer of music for linear media can predict how the music will sound from beginning to end for the listener, and compositions are constru...

A frequently occurring problem of state-of-the-art tempo estimation algorithms is that the predicted tempo for a piece of music is a whole-number multiple or fraction of the tempo as perceived by humans (tempo octave errors). While often this is simply caused by shortcomings of the used algorithms, in certain cases, this problem can be attributed to the fact that the actual number of beats per ...

Some scholars consider music to exemplify the classic criteria for a complex human adaptation, including universality, orderlying development, and special-purpose cortical processes. The present account focuses on processing predispositions for music. The early appearance of receptive musical skills, well before they have obvious utility, is consistent with their proposed status as predispositi...