abstract in this research, we try to examine the methods of tautology in modern poetry by studying the poems of badr shaker sayyab. the research method is descriptive and analytical, and collection of data is written in the library.tautology is the basic element of internal music of a poem. it is also one of the important elements in defamiliarization among artists. the basic rule in tautology ...

The origins of music and musical emotions is still an enigma, here I propose a comprehensive hypothesis on the origins and evolution of music, dance, and speech from a biological and sociological perspective. I suggest that every pitch interval between neighboring notes in music represents corresponding movement pattern through interpreting the Doppler effect of sound, which not only provides a...

With the possible exception of dance and meditation, there appears to be nothing else in common human experience that is comparable to music in its repetitiveness (Kivy 1993; Ockelford 2005; Margulis 2013). Narrative arti-facts like movies, novels, cartoon strips, stories, and speeches have much less internal repetition. Even poetry is less repetitive than music. Occasionally, architecture can ...

Imperfect and internal rhymes are two important features in rap music often ignored in the music information retrieval community. We develop a method of scoring potential rhymes using a probabilistic model based on phoneme frequencies in rap lyrics. We use this scoring scheme to automatically identify internal and line-final rhymes in song lyrics and demonstrate the performance of this method c...

Imperfect and internal rhymes are two important features in rap music previously ignored in the music information retrieval literature. We developed a method of scoring potential rhymes using a probabilistic model based on phoneme frequencies in rap lyrics. We used this scoring scheme to automatically identify internal and line-final rhymes in song lyrics and demonstrated the performance of thi...

Practicing a musical instrument is a rich multisensory experience involving the integration of visual, auditory, and tactile inputs with motor responses. This combined psychophysics-fMRI study used the musician's brain to investigate how sensory-motor experience molds temporal binding of auditory and visual signals. Behaviorally, musicians exhibited a narrower temporal integration window than n...

The paper presents and discusses direct and indirect tuning of a knowledge-driven harmonization model for tonal music. Automatic harmonization is a data analysis problem: an algorithm processes a music notation document and generates specific meta-data (harmonic functions). The proposed model could be seen as an Expert System with manually selected weights, based largely on the music theory. It...

The current study examined the effect of background music on different types of memory. One hypothesis is that background music modulates the listener’s internal mood and arousal, putting them at optimal levels to enhance memory performance. Another hypothesis is that background music establishes a “context” that, when reinstated, aids memory performance. To investigate the role of music-induce...

Corporate finance textbooks (e.g., Webster 2003, Chapter 12) recommend that a company invest in a project if and only if the project’s internal rate of return exceeds the cost of capital. If companies operated this way, their investment decisions would be independent across projects within the company, conditional on the projects’ cash flows being independent. In practice, such conditional inde...