Search results for "melo"
showing 10 items of 291 documents
John Blacking Revisited—Comparative Analysis of Venda Tshikone Dance (1958 and 2009)
2019
One of the first research topics of interest for folk music researchers was the stability/instability of folk tunes. Particularly the question which parts and elements in folk tunes are sensitive to change and what are the stable elements of the melodies. Researchers had data collected over several decades, which gave a great opportunity to systematically explore stability of melodies over the years and decades.
Modeling the Target-Note Technique of Bebop-Style Jazz Improvisation: An Artificial Neural Network Approach
1995
In cognitive science and research on artificial intelligence, there are two central paradigms: symbolic and analogical. Within the analogical paradigm, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been successfully used to model and simulate cognitive phenomena. One of the most prominent features of ANNs is their ability to learn by example and, to a certain extent, generalize what they have learned. Improvisation, the art of spontaneously creating music while playing or singing, fundamentally has an imitative nature. Regardless of how much one studies and analyzes, the art of improvisation is learned mostly by example. Instead of memorizing explicit rules, the student mimics the playing…
Melodic improvisation at the age of 6–11 years: Development of pitch and rhythm
2007
The keyboard melodic improvisations of 6–11-year-old children (N = 36) were explored for age-related development and representational types of production. The hypotheses were founded on a model of musical development by the present author. The participants heard a 24-bar ABA-formed piano-bass-percussion- accompaniment. Section A was tonal and section B was modal, lacking the tonic. Age was a significant factor in the development of the tonal hierarchy. The 6–7-year-old children's general emphasis was on the first five tones of the diatonic scale. The 8–9-year-old children preferred tones present in both sections (event hierarchical orientation). In the 10–11-year-old children's products, t…
Sengenyadance of theDigocommunity: Documentation of social context, music transcriptions and acoustic measurements of selected instruments
2015
ABSTRACTThis paper documents social and cultural aspects of Sengenya music which is practiced by Digo community (from the coast region in Kenya). Specifically the paper addresses (a) Background and Regional (Country) Context, (b) Social Context and Description of Sengenya Music, (c) Melodic transcriptions of Chivoti melodies, rhythmic transcriptions of the Six Drum Rhythms, and (d) Acoustic Measurement of selected chivoti Instruments and pitch registers of the drums used to accompany the dance. While there has been some documentation (Zake 1986, Darkwa 1991, Nyakiti 2007) of general social /cultural aspects of the Digo people (including other Coastal communities), scanty information exists …
Análisis pragmaprosódico del marcador discursivo bueno
2016
En líneas generales los marcadores del discurso han sido estudiados desde un enfoque gramatical, léxico, pragmático o pragmasintáctico, si bien, son pocos los estudios que han centrado su atención hacia el plano suprasegmental o prosódico. Nuestro trabajo parte de una hipótesis previa sobre la que ciertos rasgos prosódicos (acento, duración silábica, pausa, fronteras tonales) se asocian a la diversidad funcional de este tipo de unidades lingüísticas. De este modo, desarrollaremos de forma cualitativa y a título ejemplificador un análisis prosódico sobre el marcador discursivo bueno mediante la herramienta informática Praat, de acuerdo con la bibliografía al uso. Nos centraremos así en el es…
Nuevas aportaciones al estudio funcional de la entonación coloquial: propuesta ecléctica de integración de modelos de análisis
2017
Se muestran las ventajas de vincular el modelo interactivo de análisis entonativo fonético-funcional (Hidalgo 2011; 2014) con el denominado modelo de Análisis Melódico del Habla (Cantero 2002; Font 2007; Cantero y Font 2007; Cantero y Mateo 2011) en la idea de que esto permitirá contribuir de mejor manera a: precisar la descripción de la versatilidad funcional de la entonación, marcar con la mayor nitidez posible los límites lingüísticos del estudio prosódico y favorecer los avances en el estudio pragmaprosódico de la conversación coloquial, lagunas habituales en la investigación del componente prosódico. A la exhaustividad metodológica del modelo de Análisis Melódico del Habla se añade una…
Correcting ēthos and Purifying the Body. Musical Therapy in Iamblichus’ De vita pythagorica
2015
The tradition relating to the Pythagoreans and music therapy is most widely attested in two Neoplatonic works, Porphyry’s The Life of Pythagoras, and Iamblichus’ On the Pythagorean Way of Life. Although the chronological distance from the early Pythagoreans makes their accounts controversial, they offer interesting evidence on the beneficial effects of music. Iamblichus, whose work will be focused on in this paper, describes the effects of music on health through the notion of catharsis, which he often links with musical ēthos. The latter is not in fact attested before Plato, but Iamblichus, presenting Pythagoras in Platonic terms, emphasizes the importance he gives to the improvement of th…
Priming paradigm reveals harmonic structure processing in congenital amusia.
2012
Abstract Deficits for pitch structure processing in congenital amusia has been mostly reported for melodic stimuli and explicit judgments. The present study investigated congenital amusia with harmonic stimuli and a priming task. Amusic and control participants performed a speeded phoneme discrimination task on sung chord sequences. The target phoneme was sung either on a functionally important chord (tonic chord, referred to as “related target”) or a less important one (subdominant chord, referred to as “less-related target”). Correct response times were faster when the target phoneme was sung on tonic chords rather than on subdominant chords, and this effect was less pronounced, albeit si…
Investigating the effects of musical training on functional brain development with a novel Melodic MMN paradigm.
2013
Sensitivity to changes in various musical features was investigated by recording the mismatch negativity (MMN) auditory event-related potential (ERP) in musically trained and nontrained children semi-longitudinally at the ages of 9, 11, and 13 years. The responses were recorded using a novel Melodic multi-feature paradigm which allows fast (<15 min) recording of an MMN profile for changes in melody, rhythm, musical key, timbre, tuning and timing. When compared to the nontrained children, the musically trained children displayed enlarged MMNs for the melody modulations by the age 13 and for the rhythm modulations, timbre deviants and slightly mistuned tones already at the age of 11. Also, a …
Motivic matching strategies for automated pattern extraction
2007
This article proposes an approach to the problem of automated extraction of motivic patterns in monodies. Different musical dimensions, restricted in current approaches to the most prominent melodic and rhythmic features at the surface level, are defined. The proposed strategy of detection of repeated patterns consists of an exact matching of the successive parameters forming the motives. We suggest a generalization of the multiple-viewpoint approach that allows a variability of the types of parameters (melodic, rhythmic, etc.) defining each successive extension of these motives. This enables us to take into account a more general class of motives, called heterogeneous motives, which inclu…