Introduction: In recent years, music has been employed in many intervention and rehabilitation program to enhance cognitive abilities in patients. Numerous researches show that music therapy can help improving language skills in patients including hearing impaired. In this study, a new method of music training is introduced based on principles of neuroscience and capabilities of Persian languag...

 Environmental enrichment is one of the methods for improving fish growth performance. In the present trial, the effects of both light color and music on growth performance and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus) (initial mean weight: 4.15±0.08 g) were investigated for 2 months. Two light color treatments (red light and white light) and three music treatments (M0: without music, M30:30 min...

Background. Music has been seen as a motivator to help individuals who are not persistent enough to do a full set of exercises. However, the effect of long-term using music has not been determined, especially for amateur students who participated in Physical Education courses. Objectives: The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of popular music on female physical fitness students w...

Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology ensures protection of rights on distributed music over the Internet. Existing DRM systems emphasize the protection on Businessto-Consumer (B2C) distribution model, but pay very little attention on the protection of Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) distribution model – referring to peer-to-peer sharing. In this paper, we propose a license management model to ...

retrieval models within music and music/audio formats that makes use of XML documents as content descriptors. In this article, it is described how music/audio semantics can be actually represented within the Structural Layer of IEEE 1599, thanks to the introduction of novel Music Information Retrieval (MIR) objects that can be exploited by music search engines. A complete description of MIR obj...

music is a social phenomenon that is in conjunction with many aspects of human beings’ life today. in recent years, some forms of music have become widespread that are not from indigenous origins. indeed, these are new forms that challenge iranian cultural values. meanwhile, youth are the main consumers of these forms of music. because many of youth who are heavy consumers of music are living i...

The evolutional course of music through centuries has shown an incremental use of chromatic variations by composers and performers for melodies’ and music sounds’ enrichment. This paper presents an integrated model, which contributes to the calculation of musical chromaticism. The model takes into account both horizontal (melody) and vertical chromaticism (harmony). The proposed perceptually ba...

Music expresses emotion. However, analyzing the emotion in music by computer is a difficult task. Some work can be found in the literature, but the results are not satisfactory. In this paper, an emotion detection and classification system for pop music is presented. The system extracts feature values from the training music files by PsySound2 and generates a music model from the resulting feat...