Songs constitute a natural combination of lyrics and melodies, but it is unclear whether and how these two song components are integrated during the emergence of a memory trace. Network theories of memory suggest a prominent role of the hippocampus, together with unimodal sensory areas, in the build-up of conjunctive representations. The present study tested the modulatory influence of the hipp...

Songs constitute a natural combination of lyrics and melodies, but it is unclear whether and how these two song components are integrated during the emergence of a memory trace. Network theories of memory suggest a prominent role of the hippocampus, together with unimodal sensory areas, in the build-up of conjunctive representations. The present study tested the modulatory influence of the hipp...

There has been a growing academic interest in the study of song translation recent decade. Due to interdisciplinary nature such investigation, researching developed and stemmed from concepts notions various disciplines as literary studies, music theatre besides studies. As result, field seems be “disparate” “fragmented” (p. 23). This edited volume essays nearly 500 pages is seminal collection t...

Which comes first—the lyrics or the music? Here we consider the lyrics-first approach to songwriting and seek to augment the process by developing a creativity-support tool which uses lyrics as a creative constraint for rhythm generation. We describe a novel algorithm for suggesting possible melodic rhythms to complement the accent structure of a given set of lyrics. The algorithm is composed o...

In this paper, we introduce a novel parallel corpus of music and lyrics, annotated with emotions at line level. We first describe the corpus, consisting of 100 popular songs, each of them including a music component, provided in the MIDI format, as well as a lyrics component, made available as raw text. We then describe our work on enhancing this corpus with emotion annotations using crowdsourc...

We investigated the production of sung and spoken utterances in a non-fluent patient, C.C., who had a severe expressive aphasia following a right-hemisphere stroke, but whose language comprehension and memory were relatively preserved. In experiment 1, C.C. repeated familiar song excerpts under four different conditions: spoken lyrics, sung lyrics on original melody, lyrics sung on new but fami...

We study the impact of the presence of lyrics on music mood perception for both Canadian and Chinese listeners by conducting a user study of Canadians not of Chinese origin, Chinese-Canadians, and Chinese people who have lived in Canada for fewer than three years. While our original hypotheses were largely connected to cultural components of mood perception, we also analyzed how stable mood ass...

This paper proposes a scheme for content based keyword generation of song lyrics. Syntactic as well semantic similarity is used for sentence level clustering to separate the topic from the background of a song. A method is proposed to search for a center in the semantic graph ofWordNet for generating keywords not contained in original text.

We present a novel approach for analysing and classifying lyrics, experimenting both with ngram models and more sophisticated features that model different dimensions of a song text, such as vocabulary, style, semantics, orientation towards the world, and song structure. We show that these can be combined with n-gram features to obtain performance gains on three different classification tasks: ...