music analysis, information retrieval, multimedia indexing We motivate the problem of music recommendation based solely on acoustics from groups of related songs or 'song sets'. We propose four solutions which can be used with any acoustic-based similarity measure. The first builds a model for each song set and recommends new songs according to their distance from this model. The next three app...

To examine the effects of contact with a eonspecific in the absence of species-typical song models, the authors raised starlings in male-male pairs in acoustic isolation. The songs of these birds differed significantly from those of either individual isolates or wild adults and resembled in some respects the songs of starlings tutored by live conspecifics. Operant conditioning techniques were u...

The medieval troubadours were no wandering musicians, casually improvising their songs as they strolled from town to town, but trained artists who lovingly crafted their songs to please and woo their listeners. The art of rhetoric deeply affected the art of the troubadour. First, the art of rhetoric divided composition of a speech into five well-defined parts. The troubadours consciously molded...

Most existing studies on music mood classification have been focusing on Western music while little research has investigated whether mood categories, audio features, and classification models developed from Western music are applicable to non-Western music. This paper attempts to answer this question through a comparative study on English and Chinese songs. Specifically, a set of Chinese pop s...

Jun Kong, Cheng-Ji Shen, Pei Xin, Zhiyao Song, Ling Li, D.A. Barry, D.-S. Jeng, F. Stagnitti, D.A. Lockington and J.-Y. Parlange 1 State Key Laboratory for Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China 2 National Center for Groundwater Research and Training, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 3 Key Laboratory ...

There is emerging evidence to demonstrate the efficacy of music-based interventions for improving social functioning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). While this evidence lends some support in favor of using song over spoken directives in facilitating engagement and receptive intervention in ASD, there has been little research that has investigated the efficacy of such stimuli o...

"For in all the world there is nothing to equal the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the writings are Holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies." Such was the vision of the exalted importance of the Song of Songs as purportedly expressed by Rabbi Aqiba at the Council of Jamnia (ca. 90 A.D.). According to tradition, Aqiba's speech helped confirm the Song's plac...

30 second-snippets from 37 songs have been automatically extracted. All phonemes from this pieces have been manually labeled. The considered genre was popular music. 21 songs have been performed by male singers. 16 songs have been performed by female singers. Altogether 2244 phonemes have been manually labeled and can be used by the system. Only 15 voiced phonemes have been distinguished, becau...

In audio based music similarity, a well known effect is the existence of hubs, i.e. songs which appear similar to many other songs without showing any meaningful perceptual similarity. We verify that this effect also exists in very large databases (> 250000 songs) and that it even gets worse with growing size of databases. By combining different aspects of audio similarity we are able to reduce...