The relation between music listening and stress is inconsistently reported across studies, with the major part of studies being set in experimental settings. Furthermore, the psychobiological mechanisms for a potential stress-reducing effect remain unclear. We examined the potential stress-reducing effect of music listening in everyday life using both subjective and objective indicators of stre...

Music is a powerful medium capable of eliciting a broad range of emotions. Although the relationship between language and music is well documented, relatively little is known about the effects of lyrics and the voice on the emotional processing of music and on listeners' preferences. In the present study, we investigated the effects of vocals in music on participants' perceived valence and arou...

In this paper, we propose a novel method for generating a melody from a generative probabilistic model by using Gibbs sampler. Furthermore, users can modify the composed music by interacting with the generation process. This method enables users to create their favorable melodies. Recently, music composition using computer software is gathering attentions. Many people want to compose their orig...

With increasing amounts of audio being stored and distributed electronically, intuitive and efficient access to large music collections is becoming crucial. To this end we are developing algorithms for audio feature extraction, allowing to compute acoustic similarity between pieces of music, as well as tools utilizing this information to support retrieval of as well as navigation in music repos...

Effects of the listening context on responses to music largely have been neglected despite the prevalence of music in our everyday lives. Furthermore, there has been no research on the role of music in gambling environments (e.g., casinos, amusement arcades) despite gambling's increased popularity as a leisure pursuit. An exploratory observational study in gambling arcades was carried out to in...

after weakening of traditional presence of rhythm and rhyme in poem and introducing of new issues and challenges, the necessity of using the capacity and various tools for indicating concepts received more attention. poets by using different elements struggled to communicate with their audience properly. one of these elements derived from music is repetition which is so brilliant in ahmad matar...

This paper presents a novel approach to the task of automatic music genre classification which is based on ensemble learning. Feature vectors are extracted from three 30-second music segments from the beginning, middle and end of each music piece. Individual classifiers are trained to account for each music segment. During classification, the output provided by each classifier is combined with ...

Perception of music is an active dynamic process: while music unfolds in time, we constantly form expectations about its possible continuations. These expectations operate on several levels of music, such as melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and tonal. Music in many styles is organized around one or more stable reference tones. In Western music, this phenomenon is referred to as tonality. As music u...