Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of folk music intervention and sleep hygiene education on the sleep quality of the older adults. Participants and Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial (RTC) that investigated the effect of music and sleep- hygiene on sleep disturbance among the elderly in Urmia. The study population consisted of 150 elderly people covered by Urmia compre...

Two music recommender systems were compared side-byside in an in-depth between-subject lab study. The main objectives were to investigate users’ acceptance of music recommendations and to probe the main technology acceptance model in the environment of low involvement recommendations. Our results show that perceived usefulness (quality) and perceived ease of use (effort) are the key dimensions ...

Digital Sound Synthesis has been an exciting field of research over the last two to three decades. The idea is mainly to generate sound artificially using a system. A lot of work has been done in the past for synthesis of musical tones of stringed instruments. In this work, attempt is made for synthesizing Harmonium music using the techniques of Physical Modeling based on Digital Waveguides. In...

The scenarios opened by the increasing availability, sharing and dissemination of music across the Web is pushing for fast, effective and abstract ways of organizing and retrieving music material. Automatic classification is a central activity to model most of these processes, thus its design plays a relevant role in advanced Music Information Retrieval. In this paper, we adopted a state-of-the...

In this paper, we propose an efficient model for automatic transcription of polyphonic music. The model extends the shift-invariant probabilistic latent component analysis method and uses pre-extracted and pre-shifted note templates from multiple instruments. Thus, the proposed system can efficiently transcribe polyphonic music, while taking into account tuning deviations and frequency modulati...