Native American music is perhaps one of the most documented repertoires of indigenous folk music, being the subject of empirical ethnomusicological analyses for significant portions of the early 20th century. However, it has been largely neglected in more recent computational research, partly due to a lack of encoded data. In this paper we use the symbolic encoding of Frances Densmore’s collect...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 16 I. THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF STRUCTURED VIRAL COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................... 19 A. Viral Communications Overwhelms Centralized Communications .................................................................. 19 B. The Challenges and Advant...

In treating the subject of musical language, a Persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the Persian music and language. Indeed Persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). Although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” c...

Many naturally occurring phenomena such as music, speech, or human motion are inherently sequential. Complex sequences are often non-local (longterm temporal dependencies) and high-dimensional (multi-modal conditional distribution). For the example of polyphonic music, these properties represent the basic components of Western music, namely rhythm and harmony. Here we wish to exploit the recurr...

The neurologic music therapy is a new scope of music therapy. Its techniques deal with dysfunctions resulting from diseases of the human nervous system. Music can be used as an alternative modality to access functions unavailable through non-musical stimulus. Processes in the brain activated by the influence of music can be generalized and transferred to non-musical functions. Therefore, in cli...

BACKGROUND Research has shown positive effects of music therapy on the physical and mental well-being of terminally ill patients. This study aimed to identify favored subjects and psychosocial needs of terminally ill cancer patients during music therapy and associated factors. METHODS Forty-one Patients receiving specialized inpatient palliative care prospectively performed a music therapy in...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

comparison of the effect of instrumental music and voices of holy quran on anxiety of woman before cesarean.     sharifi a [1] *, alipour a [2] , baharloei s [3]     received: 24 aug, 2012 accepted: 20 nov, 2012   abstract   background & aims : fear and anxiety before surgery characterized with the stress with arousal of the autonomic nervous system that causes physical and psychological change...

Based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response paradigm this research analyzes the main differences between the effects of two types of web technologies: Verbal web technology (i.e., navigational structure as utilitarian stimulus) versus non-verbal web technology (music and presentation of products as hedonic stimuli). Specific webmosphere stimuli have not been examined yet as separate variables and t...

Music is one of the human needs influenced by cultural and social factors. The aim of the present study was to investigate the sociological factors of intergenerational differences in the orientation towards music in the old and new generations (case study of Bushehr).The research method was survey and data were collected using a questionnaire.The research sample consisted of 247 people aged 15...