Code-switching in songs is one of the recent techniques used by songwriters bilingual and multilingual countries which has been proven to achieve commercial success within market popular music. The study examined types, functions, pedagogical implications code-switching songs, utilized mixed methods research homogeneous purposive sampling generating 15 select Filipino for content analysis. This...

We investigated discrimination by female song sparrows Melospiza melodia, between different categories of male song using the copulation solicitation display as a preference assay. Females responded most strongly to songs recorded from their mates, less strongly to songs of neighbouring males and least strongly to songs of stranger males. Among the stranger songs, however, females preferred son...

Juveniles sometimes learn behaviors that they cease to express as adults. Whether the adult brain retains a record of experiences associated with behaviors performed transiently during development remains unclear. We addressed this issue by studying neural representations of song in swamp sparrows, a species in which juveniles learn and practice many more songs than they retain in their adult v...

Community-driven services compile data provided by the community members, for instance playlists in Web 2.0 music sites. We show how this data can be analysed and knowledge about sequential associations between songs and artists can be discovered. While most of this kind of analysis focus on (symmetric) similarity measures, we intend to discover which songs can “musically follow” others, focusi...

This paper presents the results of a content analysis of alcohol and drug portrayals in the top 100 Billboard songs from each of the years 1968, 1978, 1988, 1998, and 2008, thus allowing both a characterization of substance portrayals in music generally and an analysis of changes over time. Of the final sample of 496 songs, 10.3% contained a reference to alcohol and 5.7% contained a reference t...

We present an approach for the automatic characterisation of the harmony of song sets making use of relational induction of logical rules. We analyse manually annotated chord data available in RDF and interlinked with web identifiers for chords which themselves give access to the root, bass, component intervals of the chords. We pre-process these data to obtain high-level information such as ch...

The concept of a macroevolutionary trade-off among sexual signals has a storied history in evolutionary biology. Theory predicts that if multiple sexual signals are costly for males to produce or maintain and females prefer a single, sexually selected trait, then an inverse correlation between sexual signal elaborations is expected among species. However, empirical evidence for what has been te...

We investigated whether song sparrows discriminate foreign from local songs using specific phonologic markers, a mechanism of geographic discrimination previously described for some other songbirds. Song sparrows from Linesville, Pennsylvania (PA) respond more strongly to local songs than to songs from Millbrook, New York (NY). We identify 61 note categories in PA and NY songs, of which 13 are ...

Understanding user listening behaviors is important to the personalization of music recommendation. In this paper, we present an approach that discovers user behavior from a large-scale, real-world listening record. The proposed approach generates a latent representation of users, listening sessions, and songs, where each of these objects is represented as a point in the multi-dimensional laten...