Key finding algorithms, designed to determine the local key of segments in a piece of music, usually have difficulties at the locations where modulations occur. A specifically designed program to indicate modulations in a piece of music is presented in this paper. It was previously shown that the major and minor diatonic scale, as well as the diatonic chords, form convex sets when represented i...

The major decision in construction process involves the selection of suitable site with best soil conditions, as structure resides in the soil. Most problematic soils like expansive soils hardly proved to be the best engineering subgrade profile for pavement constructions. Thus, this has undeniably led to the soil improvement options accompanying the reduction in resource depletion and solid wa...

Among the three primary tonal functions described in modern theory textbooks, pre-dominant has highest number of representative chords. We posit that one unifying feature function is its attraction to V, and experiment reported here investigates factors may contribute this perception. Participants were junior/senior music majors, freshman people from general population recruited on Prolific.co....

It is well known that the incompressible Euler equations in two dimensions have globally regular solutions. The inviscid surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation has a Biot-Savart law which is one derivative less regular than in the Euler case, and the question of global regularity for its solutions is still open. We study here the patch dynamics in the half-plane for a family of active scalars...

Aim: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) may have a negative impact on the language and psychological development of children, especially if it is not diagnosed early treated promptly. This study were aimed to determine compare etiological factors, treatment outcomes prognostic factors in pediatric patients who followed up with diagnosis SSNHL. Materials Methods: The files 28 children ana...

Background. It is a commonplace notion that melodies are tone sequences which are neither too random nor too predictable in their structure. Little is known, however, about patterns of brain response as a function of the structure of tone sequences. Aims. This study sought to determine if differences in the statistical structure of tone sequences are reflected in measurable, dynamic neural resp...

Adults (n = 28) and 8-month-old infants (n = 48) listened to repeated transpositions of a 10-note melody exemplifying the rules of Western tonal music. They were tested for their detection of two types of changes to that melody: (a) a 4-semitone change in 1 note that remained within the key and implied dominant harmony (diatonic change) or (b) a 1-semitone change in the same note that went outs...

In line with musical “common sense” (but contrary to the century-old tradition of musical psychophysics), we show that harmony is an inherently three-tone phenomenon. Previous attempts at explaining the affective response to major/minor chords and resolved/unresolved chords on the basis of the summation of interval dissonance have been notably unsuccessful, but consideration of the relative siz...