Both music preferences and the substance use behavior of peers are important elements in explaining adolescent substance use. The extent to which music preference and peer use overlap in explaining adolescent substance use remains to be determined. A nationally representative sample of 7324 Dutch school-going adolescents (aged 12-16) provided data on music preferences, substance use behaviors a...

Music tags describe different types of semantic information of music. In this paper, we present our submission to the audio tag classification task in MIREX 2010. We propose a posterior weighted Bernoulli mixture model (PWBMM) to automatically annotate a song with tags. The PWBMM approach uses a Gaussian mixture modelbased posterior representation to characterize the 70dimensional music feature...

In the application of robots in healthcare, where there is a requirement to communicate vocally with non-expert users, a capacity to generate intelligible and expressive speech is needed. The Festival Speech Synthesis System is used as a framework for speech generation on our healthcare robot. Expression is added to speech by modifying mean pitch and pitch range parameters of a statistical mode...

This paper discusses a mathematical model together with its computational realization, for the motivic analysis of a piece of music. Relations between the mathematical model (motivic topologies), computational counter-part (OM-Melos), and music analysis are presented in the light of general concepts of computational music analysis, stressing the importance of neutrality and scientific rigour in...

Generative adversarial networks have been proposed as a way of efficiently training deep generative neural networks. We propose a generative adversarial model that works on continuous sequential data, and apply it by training it on a collection of classical music. We conclude that it generates music that sounds better and better as the model is trained, report statistics on generated music, and...

1. The Main Steps of this Work 2. The Analysis of Ravel's Bolero 2.1. Music "Objects" 2.1.1. Rhythmic Objects 2.1.2. Melodic Objects 2.1.3. Harmonic Objects 2.1.4. Resolution Objects 2.2. Meta-Structures 2.3. The Music Objects' Map 2.4. Growing Rules 2.4.1. Dynamics and Duplication Rules 2.4.2. Harmonic Rules 2.4.3. Timbral Textures 3. The Formal Model of Ravel's Bolero 3.1. Working Hypotheses ...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...