Instrumental tones and, in some instances, simple sine-wave tones were shown to evoke stronger auditory-evoked responses in musicians compared to nonmusicians. This effect was taken as an example for plasticity in the auditory cortex elicited by training. To date, however, it is unknown whether an enlarged cortical representation for (instrumental) tones or increased neuronal activity provoked ...

Previous studies indicate that positive mood broadens the scope of visual attention, which can manifest as heightened distractibility. We used event-related potentials (ERP) to investigate whether music-induced positive mood has comparable effects on selective attention in the auditory domain. Subjects listened to experimenter-selected happy, neutral or sad instrumental music and afterwards par...

This study addresses the perception of Arabic improvised music. The modal musical system (maqâm) as well as the model par excellence of instantaneous musical exposition and composition, instrumental improvisation (taqŝım), are presented. The classical Arabic maqâm (plural maqâmât) is defined in terms of other fundamental interactive elements. The role of modal perception in the mental organizat...

BACKGROUND A high level of preoperative anxiety is common among patients undergoing medical and surgical procedures. Anxiety impacts of gastroenterological procedures on psychological and physiological responses are worth consideration. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To analyze the effect of listening to Vedic chants and Indian classical instrumental music on anxiety levels and on blood pressure (BP), h...

In the research on content-based music retrieval, the fixed length of window is generally used to extract the features of melody. It has separated one fragment of music melody into multiple shorter window data. This will lose the whole feature of music melody and cause lower accuracy of retrieval. Therefore, current content-based music retrieval algorithms are discussed in detail and the emphas...

The majority of systems extracting high-level music descriptions from audio signals rely on a common, implicit model of the global sound or polyphonic timbre of a musical signal. This model represents the timbre of a texture as the long-term distribution of its local spectral features. The underlying assumption is rarely made explicit: the perception of the timbre of a texture is assumed to res...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the relative impact of different forms of hearing aid signal processing on quality ratings of music. DESIGN Music quality was assessed using a rating scale for three types of music: orchestral classical music, jazz instrumental, and a female vocalist. The music stimuli were subjected to a wide range of simulated hearing aid processing condi...

Musicians are often reported to have enhanced neurophysiological functions, especially in the auditory system. Musical training is thought to improve nervous system function by focusing attention on meaningful acoustic cues, and these improvements in auditory processing cascade to language and cognitive skills. Correlational studies have reported musician enhancements in a variety of population...

Music is an art that loved by all the people of world. seen as key factor in uniting living beings world with God. There are many different types music found over Among them, Carnatic a branch Indian genres. genre mainly represents South India and worldwide. Our hymn joyful. consists three sections, namely: songs; instrumental music; mode dancing. "Geetham" means vocal music, "Vaathiyam" "Nirut...