BACKGROUND overall voice and strain level analysis in rock singers. AIM to analyze the voice o rock singers according to two specific parameters: overall level of vocal deviation (OLVD) and strain level (SL); to compare these parameters in three different music samples. METHOD participants were 26 male rock singers, ranging in age from 17 to 46 years (mean = 29.8 years). All of the particip...

Huaibin Zheng, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhiqiang Nie, Changbiao Li, Hong Chang, Jianping Song, and Min Xiao Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lintong 710600, People’s Republic of China Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, ...

In hearing insects, discrimination of auditory signals is vital to mate selection. We tested the capability of single auditory receptor neurons to discriminate calling songs from di!erent individual grasshoppers of the same species. Spike trains elicited from di!erent songs were studied using the metric-space analysis of Victor and Purpura (Networks: Comput. Neural Syst. 8 (1997) 127}164). Our ...

OBJECTIVE To perform a comprehensive content analysis of substance use in contemporary popular music. DESIGN We analyzed the 279 most popular songs of 2005 according to Billboard magazine. Two coders working independently used a standardized data collection instrument to code portrayals of substance use. OUTCOME MEASURES Presence and explicit use of substances and motivations for, associati...

The aim of this study was to find out whether listening to English songs can improve pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design as one of the quasi-experimental research designs was employed. The sample of the study consisted of 40 male and female English learners from two classes in an Institute in Marand, Iran. T...

Familiarity is a crucial factor in music engagement, but very few study focuses on its neural correlates. We investigated effects of familiarity based on electroencephalogram in music-emotion recognition. Our research focused on self-reporting and continuous annotation based on the hypothesis that emotion in music experiencing is subjective and varies over time. Our methodology allowed subject ...

Divergence in song between allopatric populations can contribute to premating reproductive isolation in territorial birds. Song divergence is typically measured by quantifying divergence in vocal traits using audio recordings, but field playback experiments provide a more direct way to behaviorally measure song divergence between allopatric populations. The White-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina...

This paper focuses on cover song identification among datasets potentially containing millions of songs. A compact representation of music contents plays an important role in large-scale analysis and retrieval. The proposed approach is based on high-level summarization of musical songs using chord profiles. Search is performed in two steps. In the first step, the Locality Sensitive Hashing (LHS...