How do listeners learn about the statistical regularities underlying musical harmony? In traditional Western music, certain chords predict the occurrence of other chords: Given a particular chord, not all chords are equally likely to follow. In Experiments 1 and 2, we investigated whether adults make use of statistical information when learning new musical structures. Listeners were exposed to ...

Although music is often defined as the “language of emotion”, the exact nature of the relationship between musical parameters and the emotional response of the listener remains an open question. Whereas traditional psychological research usually focuses on an analytical approach, involving the rating of static sounds or preexisting musical pieces, we propose a synthetic approach based on a nove...

Many musical instruments consist essentially of resonant systems having only approximately harmonic normal modes and excited by a force that depends nonlinearly on the velocities associated with tho•e modes. An approximate condition is derived for the resulting sound spectrum to consist of components rigorously locked into harmonic relationship. Such mode locking is favored by nearly harmonic n...

Since the 1980s, composers from cultures outside of Europe and North America have begun to integrate traditional elements within electroacoustic music. This has included the use of non-Western musical instruments, sometimes expanded by the use of electronics, sounds from local cultural environments, speech sounds in a native tongue, and non-Western aesthetic concepts and musical forms. A number...

Automatic musical genre classification is very useful for music indexing and retrieval. In this paper, an efficient and effective automatic musical genre classification approach is presented. A set of features is extracted and used to characterize music content. A multi-layer classifier based on support vector machines is applied to musical genre classification. Support vector machines are used...

Musical diachrony and synchrony have revealed an incredible variation in musical scales, many of which are implied, lurking in traditional patterns and not adequately transcribed in their projection to the dominant Western music predicates. From antiquity the term “chromatic” was used to determine the coordinates of diversification in terms of psychoacoustic perception of music, and it yielded ...

Ethnomedicine Knowledge of Iranian Traditional Healers and the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

This study was initiated as the pandemic erupted in spring of 2020, triggered by our curiosity about wave Internet-mediated concerts which followed wake COVID-19. The article examines what kind social and cultural phenomenon these events were, how their presentational participatory potential explored within a few, hectic months. Basing analysis on interviews with 13 performers four promoters No...