The traditional rules of voice-leading in Western music are explicated using experimentally established perceptual principles. Six core principles are shown to account for the majority of voice-leading rules given in historical and contemporary music theory tracts. These principles are treated in a manner akin to axioms in a formal system from which the traditional rules of voice-leading are de...

Background in music psychology and history. Psychological and historical factors such as the desire to imitate, and the development of music notation systems and sound recordings, each appear to have contributed to the demise and suppression of portamento (pitch bending) in music, and the singing voice in particular. Portamento offers potential expressive resources in both music and speech, and...

Musical mixtures can be modeled as being composed of two characteristic sources: singing voice and background music. Many music/voice separation techniques tend to focus on modeling one source; the residual is then used to explain the other source. In such cases, separation performance is often unsatisfactory for the source that has not been explicitly modeled. In this work, we propose to combi...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed (1) to investigate music theory teachers' professional and extra-professional vocal loading and background noise exposure, (2) to determine the correlation between vocal loading and background noise, and (3) to determine the correlation between vocal loading and self-evaluation data. METHODS Using voice dosimetry, 13 music theory teachers were monitored for one wor...

As the remedy used music becomes active and meditation effect through the music is verified, people take a growing interest about psychological balance or remedy given by music. From traditional studies, it is verified that the music of which spectral envelop varies approximately as 1/f (f is frequency) down to a frequency of low frequency bandwidth gives psychological balance. In this paper, w...

Locating singing voice segments is essential for convenient indexing, browsing and retrieval large music archives and catalogues. Furthermore, it is beneficial for automatic music transcription and annotations. The approach described in this paper usesMel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients in conjunction with Gaussian Mixture Models for discriminating two classes of data (instrumental music and si...

An auditory-perception inspired singing voice separation algorithm for monaural music recordings is proposed in this paper. Under the framework of computational auditory scene analysis (CASA), the music recordings are first transformed into auditory spectrograms. After extracting the spectral-temporal modulation contents of the timefrequency (T-F) units through a two-stage auditory model, we de...

Voice separation is a critical component of music information retrieval, music analysis and automated transcription systems. We present a contig mapping approach to voice separation based on perceptual principles. The algorithm runs in O(n) time, uses only pitch height and event boundaries, and requires no user-defined parameters. The method segments a piece into contigs according to voice coun...