This research explores the clustering of songs using lyrics features grouped into similar classes and heterogeneous combinations. Simple techniques are used to extract 140 features for analysis with Kohonen self-organising maps. These maps are evaluated using visual analysis and objective measures of validity with respect to the clustering of eight hand-selected song pairs. According to gold st...

Music listeners have difficulty correctly understanding and remembering song lyrics. However, results from the present study support the hypothesis that young adults can learn African-American English (AAE) vocabulary from listening to hip-hop music. Non-African-American participants first gave free-response definitions to AAE vocabulary items, after which they answered demographic questions as...

This paper is an attempt to attack the problem of genre classification of music from a variety of angles. Three different types of data (song previews, album artwork, and lyrics) are used to train three models (a Recurrent Neural Network, k-Nearest Neighbors, and Naive Bayes, respectively) and the outputs of the three are again combined to classify a given song. The combined model was able to a...

When confronted with non-native songs, listeners occasionally experience auditory illusions and perceive words in their native language although they are fully aware of the song lyrics being sung in a different language. We compiled two corpora with the original language of the song lyrics being English and the percept being either German or French. Against these two corpora, we tested the rhyt...

Musical parody, i.e. the act of changing the lyrics of an existing and very well-known song, is a commonly used technique for creating catchy advertising tunes and for mocking people or events. Here we describe a system for automatically producing a musical parody, starting from a corpus of songs. The system can automatically identify characterizing words and concepts related to a novel text, w...

The music industry is a $130 billion industry. Predicting whether a song catches the pulse of the audience impacts the industry. In this paper we analyze language inside the lyrics of the songs using several computational linguistic algorithms and predict whether a song would make to the top or bottom of the billboard rankings based on the language features. We trained and tested an SVM classif...

Taking the introduction of sixth song "Lonely Heart" in Tchaikovsky's romantic Song "Six Songs" as an example, this paper expounds connotation and significance from aspects creation background, lyrics selection, music form harmony analysis, singing piano accompaniment probes into artistic characteristics song.

Rap music has had a contentious relationship with the legal system, including censorship, regulation, and artists being arrested for lewd and profane performances. More recently, rap lyrics have been introduced by prosecutors to establish guilt in criminal trials. Some fear this form of artistic expression will be inappropriately interpreted as literal and threatening, perhaps because of stereo...

sclerosis affects fMR-adaptation of lyric and melodies in songs. HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée...