E-music distribution is becoming more and more popular over the Internet and a recent research states that e-music will soon replace audio-CDs. Some complains that simple audio tracks can never compete with a complete product like audio-CDs, which provide audio, but also lyrics, images and CD-covers. In this paper we focus on the MP3 open format and we propose a mechanism to transform a single ...

Using educational attainment to indicate socioeconomic status, the authors examined models of agency and effects of choice among European American adults of different educational backgrounds in 3 studies. Whereas college-educated (BA) participants and their preferred cultural products (i.e., rock music lyrics) emphasized expressing uniqueness, controlling environments, and influencing others, l...

Musical parody, i.e. the act of changing the lyrics of an existing and very well-known song, is a commonly used technique for creating catchy advertising tunes and for mocking people or events. Here we describe a system for automatically producing a musical parody, starting from a corpus of songs. The system can automatically identify characterizing words and concepts related to a novel text, w...

New interactive music services have emerged, despite currently using proprietary file formats. Having a standardized file format could benefit the interoperability between these services. In this regard, the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) issued a new standard, the so called, MPEG-A: Interactive Music Application Format (IM AF). The purpose of this paper is to describe the design a...

It is a well known fact that written culture suppressed oral culture in the historical process, but often in such a way that oral creations were also written down (and not simply rejected). So it is that it happened that the manner of notation adapted to the needs of the written media was in fact built into the texts of oral poems. For that reason, the history of oral lyrics together with the o...

A study is reported investigating the relationship between modality (major/minor) and dynamics (piano/forte) on four affects – as evident in the content of musical lyrics. Forty solo vocal works were sampled: 10 in the major mode with a loud (forte) dynamic level, 10 in the major mode with a quiet (piano) dynamic level, 10 in the minor mode with a loud dynamic level, and 10 in the minor mode wi...

A sung vocal line is the prominent feature of much popular music. It would be useful to reliably locate the portions of a musical track during which the vocals are present, both as a ‘signature’ of the piece and as a precursor to automatic recognition of lyrics. Here, we approach this problem by using the acoustic classifier of a speech recognizer as a detector for speech-like sounds. Although ...

Rap is characterized by highly rhythmic delivery of words; the subtle ways in which syllables in the lyrics fit into the beats in the music lead to expressivity in rap music. Unfortunately, given a lack of notated score for the genre of rap, the task of determining the rhythm to existing rap performances must be carried out manually. In this paper, we explore a method of automatically aligning ...

This work explores the relationship between the sentiment of lyrics in Billboard Top 100 songs, stocks, and a consumer confidence index. We hypothesized that sentiment of Top 100 songs could be representative of public mood and correlate to stock market changes as well. We analyzed the sentiment for polarity and mood in terms of seven dimensions. We gathered data from 2008 to 2013 and found sta...

Music with lyrics about helping is shown to reduce aggression in the laboratory. This paper tests whether the prosocial lyric effect generalizes to reducing customer aggression in the workplace. A field experiment involved changing the hold music played to customers of a call center. The results of a 3 week study suggested that music significantly affected customers, but not in the way suggeste...