• ABSTRACT Two of the most salient features of music are the blending of pitch and the matching of time. I propose here a possible evolutionary precursor of human music based on a process I call “contagious heterophony”. Heterophony is a form of pitch blending in which individuals generate similar musical lines but in which these lines are poorly synchronized. A wonderful example can be found i...

The musical use of low and ultra-low frequencies is closely related to the twentieth-century development of electronic and digital media. In historical respect, this development continues the steady exploration of the lower ranges of musically significant sound which started with the rise of polyphony. This paper focuses on the consequences this sonic expansion has for the aesthetics of music. ...

This article discusses the relationship between divine and human, as it appears in T.S. Eliot’s play Murder Cathedral, written for performed at Cathedral of Canterbury 1935. On one hand, most obviously, this about martyrdom Archbishop Thomas Becket on 29 December 1170 owes much to a medieval Catholic well Anglo-Catholic tradition. other unbridgeable distance pronounced by all his utterances pla...

In this work of creative nonfiction, I use a visit to an Ethiopian shoe factory, where observed the application Japanese methods productivity, as lens reflect on ambiguities, inconsistencies, and ethical dilemmas thrown up both by such fieldwork larger project promoting industrialization in Ethiopia. The reader is introduced cast characters present that day invited follow many them into setting...

Current research and practice in early years pays special attention to education using play. However, the prospects for play application remain largely unclear. Starting from works of Lev Vygotsky his followers (D.Elkonin, A.Leontiev) an activity-based approach was elaborated. The development cultural-historical theory continued Elena Smirnova Kravtsova others. proposed consider context zone pr...

Despite the diversity of paradigms in field public relations, it is evident that dominant paradigm functional paradigm, which defines relations as a "management function". It leads to ignorance "cultural function" and becomes an obstacle development field. By establishing relationship between culture, this article addresses intermediary" profession influenced by postmodern culture (re)produces ...

This paper presents a music summarization system called “Papipuun” that we are developing. Papipuun performs quick listening in a manner similar to a stylus skipping on a scratched record, but the skipping occurs correctly at punctuations of musical phrases, not arbitrarily. First, we developed a method for representing polyphony based on time-span reduction in the generative theory of tonal mu...

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This paper proposes a novel approach to musical instrument recognition in polyphonic audio signals by using a source-filter model and an augmented non-negative matrix factorization algorithm for sound separation. The mixture signal is decomposed into a sum of spectral bases modeled as a product of excitations and filters. The excitations are restricted to harmonic spectra and their fundamental ...