This paper uses corpus analysis to explore relationships between tone and melody in folk contemporary songs Chaozhou, a Chinese dialect with eight lexical tones wealth of sandhi. Results suggest that: (1) there is high degree correspondence Chaozhou song; (2) sandhi influences tone-melody correspondence; (3) realised context can be categorised into high-, mid-, low-pitch groups according the to...

BACKGROUND Human hearing develops progressively during the last trimester of gestation. Near-term fetuses can discriminate acoustic features, such as frequencies and spectra, and process complex auditory streams. Fetal and neonatal studies show that they can remember frequently recurring sounds. However, existing data can only show retention intervals up to several days after birth. METHODOLO...

BACKGROUND Enjoyment of music is an important part of life that may be degraded for people with hearing impairments, especially those using cochlear implants. The ability to follow separate lines of melody is an important factor in music appreciation. This ability relies on effective auditory streaming, which is much reduced in people with hearing impairment, contributing to difficulties in mus...

The article deals with the problem of understanding meaning music on example rock music. purpose is to find a criterion for such an understanding. For this purpose, question considered as what musical is. Since compositions usually have short length and one explicit melody, it can be said that grasping melody. arises means grab whether ability sing it. Not necessarily, turns out–rather, capturi...

This paper outlines a method for the MIREX05 contest “Audio Melody Extraction”. The method aims at extracting the fundamental frequency (F0) trajectory of the predominant melody, such as the lead singing, within polyphonic and multitimbral audio signals. The method is based on a multiple-F0 estimator front-end followed by the probabilistic modeling of note events and their relationships. The pe...

In order to test which musical aspects relate to what defines the melody in a musical piece, a method for feature selection, and an implementation for phrase segmentation of musical pieces have been proposed. The melody classification by the selected features have performed according to the highest performances in this field on the MIDI datasets that were used. MIDI datasets were used in order ...

MT is a melody transcription system that accepts acoustic input, typically sung by the user, and displays it in standard music notation. It tracks the pitch of the input and segments the pitch stream into musical notes, which are labelled by their pitches relative to a reference frequency that adapts to the userÕs tuning. This paper describes the signal processing operations involved, and discu...