the confrontation between iranian and western musical cultures and especially taking the idea of western orchestra is a topic that had incongruous dimensions in iranian music. therefore, this process leads up to some questions: what is the relationship between the multiplicity of musical performance and identity of iranian music? and the other question: did such a process in its different dimen...

Understanding and following musical improvisations with a computer requires methods different from those needed when following score-based musical performances. This paper discusses questions related to interactive music systems for the recognition and accompaniment of tonal improvisations. This includes discussion about rhythmic parsing and harmonic analysis with a recursive Bayesian classifie...

The concept of Iranian traditional musical modes, namely DASTGÄH, is the basis for the traditional music system. The concept introduces seven DASTGÄHs. It is not an easy process to distinguish these modes and such practice is commonly performed by an experienced person in this field. Apparently, applying artificial intelligence to do such classification requires a combination of the basic infor...

one of the subjects that researchers are agreed on is hafez acquaintance to music and sing. extensive studies have been conducted on musical terms in hafez works; there are some words in his poems that are surrounded by a musical halo, however theirlexical meanings are still considered through the context of the poems, but nobody can get a profound understanding out of hafez’s artistic elegance...

information has numerous potentials and features by which it can be used in various aspects of society. this paper aims to examine some roles and unique characteristics of information and supports the theory that information can be treated as wealth or wealth creator due to its vital impacts. finally, it is shown that identifying information significance, the roles it plays and making better us...

Timbre recognition has always been associated with musical instrument identification. In music information retrieval (MIR) community there has always been increasing interest in identifying singers and identifying the musical instruments. There can be unending debate on, whether to consider human throat as a kind of musical instrument generating sound through air pressure and vibration or not. ...