Our work presents the most recent developments in instrumental and DSP melodic reproduction of Byzantine music. This specific musical system is a Delta musical structure with a “thinner” microtonal scale partition of the well-known European scale and therefore new notes are involved. Apart from the tonality distribution, in Byzantine music Delta notation, transitional patterns appear stating qu...

Playing an instrument is a physical skill learned through observation, repetition and rehearsal. Students of orchestral instruments seek one-to-one tuition from expert musicians. However as they become more accomplished, the number of suitable tutors becomes more concentrated, especially for less common instruments. Often a tutor-student relationship develops over several years and temporary se...

The mission of the Studio Music and Jazz Instrumental Degree Programs is to: (1) prepare jazz instrumentalists to enter the music profession or further jazz studies; (2) identify, recruit, and retain high quality students who seek to pursue studio/jazz performance as a career; (3) foster faculty creativity and performance which serves as a role model for students; (4) develop, and revise course...

In this paper an automatic system for the detection of similar phrases in music of the Eastern Mediterranean is proposed. This music follows a specific structure, which is referred to as parataxis. The proposed system can be applied to audio signals of complex mixtures that contain the lead melody together with instrumental accompaniment. It is shown that including a lead melody estimation into...

The goal of this study was to investigate the translateability of creative works into other domains. We tested whether people were able to recognize which works of art were inspired by which pieces of music. Three expert painters created four paintings, each of which was the artist’s interpretation of one of four different pieces of instrumental music. Participants were able to identify which p...

Koelsch [4] takes a broad view of semantics (unlike, e.g., [3]), and presents a variety of evidence suggesting that, like language, instrumental music can communicate not only emotional or affective meaning, but also iconic, indexical, and symbolic meaning. He concludes that the study of musical semantics and its relation to linguistic semantics can advance our understanding of the neural repre...

In mixed electroacoustic music it is common to find the erroneous conception according to which interaction should base itself exclusively on the fusion between instrumental writing and electronic devices, whereas the contrast between these sound spheres is as significant as the fusional states. Although fusion may be seen as the most important ingredient for an efficacious compositional strate...

The identification of the instruments playing in a polyphonic music signal is an important and unsolved problem in Music Information Retrieval. In this paper, we propose a framework for the sound source separation and timbre classification of polyphonic, multi-instrumental music signals. The sound source separation method is inspired by ideas from Computational Auditory Scene Analysis and formu...

Sleep disorders that are often experienced in the elderly, namely insomnia. disturbance (insomnia) will cause drowsiness throughout day which affect daily activities and general health. Drowsiness is a risk factor for accidents, this condition also causes various bad effects, including stress, emotional disturbances, lead to decrease quality of life old age. The purpose study was determine effe...