Music tags provide different types of semantic information about music. Recently, automatic music tagging has generated a great deal of interest among researchers in the field of music information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a posterior weighted Bernoulli mixture model (PWBMM) that automatically annotates a song with tags, or retrieves relevant songs given a semantic tag. The PWBMM app...

In music composition, melody is relatively easy to generate: a piece composed even by an amateur can be pleasing at times. However, chords composition typically requires some musical background to have them be acoustically in harmony. In this report, we designed a system to generate chords matching a given melody using several models and draw similarities between natural language and music. We ...

This paper will examine and categorize potential business model scenarios for online music. The virtualization of music leads to market uncertainties. On the supply side, the offering party might not be able to sufficiently privatize online music by using digital rights management technologies. On the demand side, with a changing cost structure for digital goods, consumers might not be willing ...

     There are several reasons for usage of music and musical activities. Music is part of artistic activities of human beings. Perhaps people are exposed to music more than other artistic works in their daily lives. Due to the necessity of considering music as a part of human identity, we tried to study the amount of music used by young people in Zanjan based on four hypothesis: cultural li...

Perception of music is an active dynamic process: while music unfolds in time, we constantly form expectations about its possible continuations. These expectations operate on several levels of music, such as melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and tonal. Music in many styles is organized around one or more stable reference tones. In Western music, this phenomenon is referred to as tonality. As music u...

Background and Purpose: Due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. Methods: The present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing cancer chem...

This paper proposes a theoretical model for the analysis of music and language intersections in contemporary music. This model is tested on a repertoire of electroacoustic and acoustic pieces, providing examples of blurred boundaries between music and speech. We have defined two axes representing possible dimensions of this relationship: intelligibility and music/speech qualities. The resulting...

Previous work has explored the concept of music similarity measures and a variety of methods have been proposed for calculating such measures. This paper describes a system for music similarity which attempts to model and compare some of the more musically salient features of a set of audio signals. A model for timbre and a model for rhythm are implemented directly from previous work, and a mod...