This research was done in order to describe the content of proposed lyrics’ concepts in permissible pop music based on published audio works’ list of music publication office in 2009 among 200 albums of music office published audio works,  the 10 number of pop singers were randomly selected and the lyrics’ concept of 70 music were also investigated. In the process of data analysis in the first ...

Introduction: It has shown that listening to Mozart music can potentiate spatial tasks in human and reduce seizure attacks in epileptic patients. A few studies have reported the effects of prenatal plus postpartum exposure of mice to the Mozart music on brain-drived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the hippocampus. Here we investigated the effect of postpartum exposure to The Mozart music on BDNF ...

Very little has been written from a sociological or urban studies perspective about the hardcore punk subculture in the United States. Further, few studies have dealt with this social group’s ideology and tendency towards overt resistance to mainstream culture. In this study, I give a general perspective of the hardcore subculture and then, using basic univariate and bivariate analyses, show th...

Morton Feldman’s graphs merit attention because they altered the course of Western classical music, as John Cage observed in the epigraph to this volume. Early examples quickly gained notoriety in new music circles in the United States, becoming some of the very first musical works presented in a strikingly new notation to receive public attention. Moreover, they greatly affected Cage’s ownmusi...

Tempo estimation is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval and has been researched extensively. One problem still unsolved is the tendency of tempo estimation algorithms to produce results that are wrong by a small number of known factors (so-called octave errors). We propose a method that uses supervised learning to predict such tempo estimation errors. In a post-processing step,...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effect of music on pain, anxiety and vital signs in children undergoing colonoscopy.   Method and Materials: This randomized study was carried out on 101 children (7 to 14 years old) requiring colonoscopy. Children were randomly allocated to a control or case group. The case group was played relaxing music (by Clayderman) during the procedure. S...

The relationship between musical structure, perception and meaning can be understood as a key to the development of theory post-tonal music. Preliminaries this are developed in three “variations”. First, review difficult music new 20th century is explained by (1) an increasingly diverse compositional practice that has lead composer-centred “theory”, often amounting nothing more than scantily co...