as rational human beings, we always think and look back upon our predecessors and forefathers, how they have lived and what they have accomplished, in order to learn from their experiences and broaden our horizons. there is no doubt that olivier messiaen is one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, because of his unique musical approach, language and style. thus, western modern...

Rhythmic descriptors are often utilized for semantic music classification, such as genre recognition or tempo detection. Several algorithms dealing with the extraction of rhythmic information from music signals were proposed in literature. Most of them derive a so-called beat histogram by auto-correlating a representation of the temporal envelope of the music signal. To circumvent the problem o...

Musical meter and attributes of the rhythmic feel (e.g., swing) are crucial when defining musical style, but they are often difficult to capture in music audio signals. In this work, we employ a set of tree ensemble models trained using a rhythm-inspired acoustic feature set. We model a total of nine rhythmic attributes covering meter and feel using over one million examples labeled by experts ...

One especially important feature of metrical music is that it contains periodicities that listeners' bodily rhythms can adapt to. Recent psychological frameworks have introduced the notion of rhythmic entrainment, among other mechanisms, as an emotion induction principle. In this review paper, we discuss rhythmic entrainment as an affect induction mechanism by differentiating four levels of ent...

the prediction of the joint angle position, especially during tremor bursts, can be useful for detecting, tracking, and forecasting tremors. thus, this research proposes a new model for predicting the wrist joint position during rhythmic bursts and inter‑burst intervals. since a tremor is an approximately rhythmic and roughly sinusoidal movement, neural oscillators have been selected to underli...

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...

Children with specific language impairments (SLIs) show impaired perception and production of language, and also show impairments in perceiving auditory cues to rhythm [amplitude rise time (ART) and sound duration] and in tapping to a rhythmic beat. Here we explore potential links between language development and rhythm perception in 45 children with SLI and 50 age-matched controls. We administ...

rhythm is a criterion for harmonic music, just in a way that prosody is for poetry. like prosody, rhythm has meters that were called periods or rhythmic periods. rhythmic periods consist of noqrehs (silver) or stresses that are equal to words in poem. present article is to study the science of rhythm and prosody, considering the similarities and dissimilarities in their divisions such as their ...

An asymmetric bimanual task was investigated in which participants performed a rhythmic movement with their dominant arm and initiated a second movement with their nondominant arm at a random phase of the continued oscillations. The objective was to examine whether different constraints existed between rhythmic and discrete movements and, more generally, whether rhythmic and discrete movements ...

We present new methods for studying pre-schoolers’ rhythmic and music-synchronization abilities. 46 children (2 – 4 years of age) were presented with a familiar excerpt of music, in as natural a setting as possible, and their movements recorded with an optical motion capture system and standard video camera. In order to examine the synchronization process, the music excerpt contained abrupt tem...