By measuring the auditory brainstem response to two musical intervals, the major sixth (E3 and G2) and the minor seventh (E3 and F#2), we found that musicians have a more specialized sensory system for processing behaviorally relevant aspects of sound. Musicians had heightened responses to the harmonics of the upper tone (E), as well as certain combination tones (sum tones) generated by nonline...

he purpose of the article is to exhibit this fact that embellishments, despite of their lexical meaning, do not play just an ornamental role in iranian classical music, but they have an extremely important function to form the structural facets of dastgahi music; in fact, the embellishments are irremovable elements in the mentioned musical system. first of all, some brief explanations about con...

In the context of music composition and production using MIDI sequencers, wind instrument tracks are built on the synthesis of music scores that have been written using whether MIDI keyboards or mouse clicks. Such modus operandi clearly handicaps the musician when it comes to shape the resulting audio with the desired expression. This paper presents a straightforward method to create convincing...

This paper presents a Bayesian nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) approach to extract singing voice from background music accompaniment. Using this approach, the likelihood function based on NMF is represented by a Poisson distribution and the NMF parameters, consisting of basis and weight matrices, are characterized by the exponential priors. A variational Bayesian expectationmaximization ...

The effectiveness of audio content analysis for music retrieval may be enhanced by the use of available metadata. In the present work, observed differences in singing style and instrumentation across genres are used to adapt acoustic features for the singing voice detection task. Timbral descriptors traditionally used to discriminate singing voice from accompanying instruments are complemented ...

This paper presents a system for the transcription of singing voice melodies in polyphonic music signals based on Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. In particular, a new DNN system is introduced for performing the f0 estimation of the melody, and another DNN, inspired from recent studies, is learned for segmenting vocal sequences. Preparation of the data and learning configurations related to th...

IN TONAL MUSIC, PATTERNS OF TENSION AND resolution form one of the core principles evoking emotions. The experience of musical tension and resolution depends on various features of the music (e.g., dynamics, agogics, melody, and harmony); however, the relative contribution of different features to the experience of tension is less clear. To investigate the influence of different features on sub...

In tonal music, patterns of tension and resolution form one of the core principles evoking emotions. The experience of musical tension and resolution depends on various features of the music (e.g., dynamics, agogics, melody, and harmony), however, the relative contribution of different features to the experience of tension is less clear. To investigate the influence of different features on sub...

161 Abstract— Recently, According to increasing interest to original sound Karaoke instrument, MIDI type karaoke manufacturer attempt to make more cheap method instead of original recoding method. Separating technique for singing voice from music accompaniment is very useful in such equipment. We propose a system to separate singing voice from music accompaniment for stereo recordings. Our syst...

This paper deals with objective analysis of the singing voice, and aims at giving non-professional singers both an aid to improve their voice capabilities and a criterion to prevent a wrong vocal attitude (head, neck, and body posture) that could even cause vocal pathologies. A new standalone application with a user-friendly interface is proposed, for robust and reliable analysis of singing voi...