Nonmusicians remember vocal melodies (i.e., sung to la la) better than instrumental melodies. If greater exposure to the voice contributes to those effects, then long-term experience with instrumental timbres should elicit instrument-specific advantages. Here we evaluate this hypothesis by comparing pianists with other musicians and nonmusicians. We also evaluate the possibility that absolute p...

abstract background: during health care in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), infants undergo extremely painful procedures, which may cause problems, if not controlled, such as changes in the pattern of respiratory rate, heart rate, and blood oxygen saturation. the present study aimed to find the effect of melody on the physiological responses of neonates’ heel stick pain. materials and m...

Automatic song writing aims to compose a (lyric and/or melody) by machine, which is an interesting topic in both academia and industry. In automatic writing, lyric-to-melody generation melody-to-lyric are two important tasks, of usually suffer from the following challenges: 1) paired lyric melody data limited, affects quality considering lot training needed due weak correlation between melody; ...

In this paper, we present a novel melody representation and matching method, which is both robust against pitch errors and invariant to liner or non-linear tempo variation. The melody of a music item or a query is represented by a point sequence, which is derived from the pitch contour of the melody. This point sequence is invariant to the time or speed in the original melody contour. Important...

Different pieces of music offer different expressive possibilities. Even a single piece of music offers the possibility to be treated in several expressive ways (see “Repp (1998)”). How much of this variety of possible interpretations is exhibited in actual performances of the music? Do pianists make use of the different parameters of the piece to shape their performance? Do variety in performa...

In this paper, we address the problem of online mining maximal frequent structures (Type I & II melody structures) in unbounded, continuous landmark melody streams. An efficient algorithm, called MMSLMS (Maximal Melody Structures of Landmark Melody Streams), is developed for online incremental mining of maximal frequent melody substructures in one scan of the continuous melody streams. In MMSLM...