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We investigated the effects of different encoding tasks and of manipulations of two supposedly surface parameters of music on implicit and explicit memory for tunes. In two experiments, participants were first asked to either categorize instrument or judge familiarity of 40 unfamiliar short tunes. Subsequently, participants were asked to give explicit and implicit memory ratings for a list of 8...

Production studies have shown that the intonational tunes L*H-H% and L*L-H% may be used for different discourse functions in Australian English [1,2,3,4]. This study investigates whether prelingually deaf cochlear implant (CI) users can discriminate between changes in the starting point of a rise, as distinguishes these tunes phonetically. We also assessed their interpretation of these tunes. 1...

Ulster (Donegal) Irish is strikingly different from southern varieties of Irish in having a dominance of rising tunes. In this paper we look at the prosodic characteristics (tunes and phonetic interrogativity markers) of utterance-final rising tunes in statements (ST) and questions (WHQ, YNQ) in four local varieties (RF, BF, GCC and RG) of Donegal Irish (DI), in order to shed light on possible ...

Commercial recordings of French-Canadian instrumental dance tunes represent a varied and complex corpus of study. This was a primarily aural tradition, transmitted from performer to performer with few notated sources until the late 20th century. Practitioners routinely combined tune segments to create new tunes and personalized settings of existing tunes. This has resulted in a corpus that exhi...

Every night, traditional Irish musicians gather in sessions at pubs and other public spaces to play tunes together. Each public space has its own tradition and history: i.e., context, players, repertoire, styles, etc. Moreover, this tradition is temporally situated; for example, tunes go in and out of fashion. Yet, tunes themselves are mobile—they travel from session to session via recordings, ...

We present MusCat, a music browser featuring abstract pictures and zooming user interface. It visualizes collections of tunes by abstract pictures, based on features, not based on metadata. Our technique firstly calculates features of tunes, and hierarchically clusters the tunes according to the features. It then automatically generates abstract pictures for each tune and cluster, so that users...

In folk song research, string methods have been widely used to retrieve highly similar tunes or to perform tune family classification. In this study, we investigate how various string methods perform on a fundamentally different classification task, which is to classify folk tunes into genres, the genres being the dance types of the tunes. A new data set Dance-9 is therefore introduced. The dif...