With the advancement of digital electronics and computer technologies, the way people listen to music has experienced a revolutionary change in the past decade. Instead of visiting a CD store on the street, people now search their favorite songs online, via numerous music download websites, MP3 weblogs and peer-to-peer applications. Nowadays tens of millions of people in the greater China regio...

Research shows that sensational news stories as well as popular romance novels often feature themes related to important topics in evolutionary psychology. In the first of four studies described in this paper we examined the song lyrics from three Billboard charts: Country, Pop, and R&B. A content analysis of the lyrics revealed 18 reproductive themes that read like an outline for a course in e...

hit song detection, music classification We explore the automatic analysis of music to identify likely hit songs. We extract both acoustic and lyric information from each song and separate hits from non-hits using standard classifiers, specifically Support Vector Machines and boosting classifiers. Our features are based on global sounds learnt in an unsupervised fashion from acoustic data or gl...

People have remarkably diverse tastes in music, which reflect diversity in personalities, cultures and age groups. Recently Yahoo! Music offers a wealth of information and services related to many aspects of music, such as user ratings, which can be utilized to analyze the encoded information on how songs are grouped, which artists complement each other, and which songs users would like to list...

Eastern Screech-Owls (Otus asio) possess a repertoire of two song types, the bounce and the whinny. We examined (1) seasonal variation in the use of these songs in central Kentucky and (2) the responses of male and female screech-owls to the playback of bounce songs. The spontaneous use of bounce songs increased uring February and March, declined in April and May, increased again in June and co...

We address the challenging task of automatically composing lyrical songs with matching musical and lyrical features, and we present the first prototype, M.U. SicusApparatus, to accomplish the task. The focus of this paper is especially on generation of art songs (lieds). The proposed approach writes lyrics first and then composes music to match the lyrics. The crux is that the music composition...

The available evidence indicates that the music of a culture reflects the speech rhythm of the prevailing language. The normalized pairwise variability index (nPVI) is a measure of durational contrast between successive events that can be applied to vowels in speech and to notes in music. Music-language parallels may have implications for the acquisition of language and music, but it is unclear...

Unlike the great apes and most other primates, all species of gibbons are known to produce elaborate, species-specific and sex-specific patterns of vocalisation usually referred to as "songs". In most, but not all, species, mated pairs may characteristically combine their songs in a relatively rigid pattern to produce coordinated duet songs. Previous studies disagree on whether duetting or the ...

In this digital music era, sorting and discovery of songs is getting harder and more time consuming than before, due to the large pool of songs out there. Many music recommendation system and other similar applications in the market make use of collaborative filtering and social recommendation to suggest music to listeners. However, the problem arises when there is not enough information collec...

In many oscine species, young males learn songs that match those of their first breeding-season neighbours. Because sharing songs with neighbours may be advantageous, selection should favour birds that retain the capacity to memorize new songs later in their first year as the birds cannot know for sure who their neighbours will be until spring. We investigated whether song sparrows, Melospiza m...