In this study, we propose and implement a concatenation-based singing synthesis system to synthesize the singing voice with background music. We record three different pitches to build our corpus for all syllables. The synthesis informations, including velocity, note number, start time and end time are extracted from the main melody. Runs and riffs information was added into consideration after...

Music is thought to engage its listeners by driving feelings of surprise, tension, and relief through a dynamic mixture of predictable and unpredictable patterns, a property summarized here as “expressiveness”. Birdsong shares with music the goal to attract and hold its listeners’ attention and might make use of similar strategies to achieve this goal. We here tested a songbird’s rhythm, as rep...

AIMS The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popu...

The amount of multimedia content in the World Wide Web is increasing very much, and music is one of the most outstanding. Every time, there are more and more songs, artists, and even new genres. Hence, it is really hard to manage this huge quantity, in terms of searching, filtering, navigating through the content, etc. One of the solutions for this problem is keeping annotations of the music fi...

Current online music portals and systems for the management of private music collections mainly concentrate on the support for directed search for music pieces (e.g. on the basis of describing metadata like title, artist, etc.). However, empirical studies have shown that the typical behaviour of customers in classic music retail stores is much more characterized by an undirected browsing in the...

Many scientists play music. I'm one. I'm the rhythm guitar player, song writer, and singer in The Amygdaloids. We play original music about mind and brain and mental disorders. The songs are inspired by research that I do, as well as general ideas in the brain and cognitive sciences, and the philosophy of mind. For me, playing music is not a distraction to other life obligations. It makes me be...

Folk songs are typically composed of repeating parts stanzas. To find such parts in audio recordings of folk songs, segmentation methods can be used that split a recording into separate parts according to different criteria. Most audio segmentation methods were developed for popular and classical music, however these do not perform well on folk music recordings. This is mainly because folk song...

It is widely reported that music can be beneficial to individuals with autism. This review was undertaken to determine the evidence base for the use of music as an intervention for children with autism. After searching relevant databases, 128 articles were identified of which 20 articles met the study's inclusion criteria. Composed songs and improvisational music therapy were the predominant mu...

Software development for children is challenging; children have their own needs, which often are not met by ‘grown up’ software. We focus on software for playing songs and managing a music collection—tasks that children take great interest in, but for which they have few or inappropriate tools. We address this situation with the design of a new music management system, created with children as ...

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...