A low frequency modulation feature, LFMAD, was examined under several conditions with regard to its robustness on speech/music discrimination. The feature was tested on LF components from 2 Hz to 27 Hz and with different analysis window sizes. This feature performs best when using an analysis window size containing only one period of the LF component to be used. When the music contained much vo...

From the earliest days of Tamil music tradition, was considered to be a combination vocal music, instrumental and dance. Each these musical genres is closely intertwined. Knowledge one helps know about other. Instrumental has been interpreted as accompaniment solo dance specialty. In Bharata's book 'Natyashasthram', instruments are generally divided into four categories nerve (tata) hole (kasir...

Physical modeling in computer music has been developing for twenty-five years. An assortment of algorithms, often in the form of "self-modeling" by musician / engineers, has accumulated and become available to composers. These software instruments have become material for composition and unveiling the range of designs forms the focus of this report. To a large extent, schemes applied in the wor...

A model for multi-pitch and periodicity analysis of complex audio signals is presented that is more efficient and practical than the Meddis and O’Mard unitary pitch perception model, yet exhibits very similar behavior. In this paper we also demonstrate how to apply this model to source separation of complex audio signals such as polyphonic and multi-instrumental music and mixtures of simultaneo...

The purpose of this paper is to show some aspects of music therapy application in cancer care and to present the integration of music therapy program into a continuous supportive cancer care for inpatients. A cancer diagnosis is one of the most feared and serious life events that causes stress in individuals and families. Cancer disrupts social, physical and emotional well-being and results in ...

Studying texture is a part of many musicological analyses. The change of texture plays an important role in the cognition of musical structures. Texture is a feature commonly used to analyze musical audio data, but it is rarely taken into account in symbolic studies. We propose to formalize the texture in classical Western instrumental music as melody and accompaniment layers, and provide an al...