Background in music theory and analysis. Polyphonic vocal intonation practices have been addressed in a number of studies on vocal acoustics. Our research both builds on this work and supplements it with a theoretical paradigm based on work done in the areas of sensory consonance and tonal attraction. Background in computing. Recent work in the field of music information retrieval has discussed...

The concept of Iranian traditional musical modes, namely DASTGÄH, is the basis for the traditional music system. The concept introduces seven DASTGÄHs. It is not an easy process to distinguish these modes and such practice is commonly performed by an experienced person in this field. Apparently, applying artificial intelligence to do such classification requires a combination of the basic infor...

Background in music psychology and history. Psychological and historical factors such as the desire to imitate, and the development of music notation systems and sound recordings, each appear to have contributed to the demise and suppression of portamento (pitch bending) in music, and the singing voice in particular. Portamento offers potential expressive resources in both music and speech, and...

Spatial acoustics constitute a major part of our experience of the world. The ability to make sense of our environment depends on spatial awareness and hearing plays a major role in this process. Yet in videogames, the acoustic information available to us is reduced. This cripples our hearing, leaving spatial awareness dependant on vision alone. This thesis examines the problems surrounding the...

Virtual audio reality environments have in recent years become popular in such fields as computer music, acoustics, multimedia, and telecommunications [1]. There are often computational constraints that lead to very simplified systems that faintly resemble the physical reality. We present a distributed expandable virtual audio reality system that can accurately yet efficiently model room acoust...

For architects, real-time 3D visual rendering of CAD-models is a valuable tool. The architect usually perceives the visual appearance of the building interior in a natural and realistic way during the design process. Unfortunately this only emphasizes the role of the visual appearance of a building, while the acoustics often remain disregarded. Controlling the room acoustics is not integrated i...

one of the subjects that researchers are agreed on is hafez acquaintance to music and sing. extensive studies have been conducted on musical terms in hafez works; there are some words in his poems that are surrounded by a musical halo, however theirlexical meanings are still considered through the context of the poems, but nobody can get a profound understanding out of hafez’s artistic elegance...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...