Search results for "melody"
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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…
Leaping across Modalities: Speed Regulation Messages in Audio and Tactile Domains
2010
This study examines three design bases for speed regulation messages by testing their ability to function across modalities. Two of the design bases utilise a method originally intended for sound design and the third uses a method meant for tactile feedback. According to the experimental results, all designs communicate the intended meanings similarly in audio and tactile domains. It was also found that melodic (frequency changes) and rhythmic (segmentation) features of stimuli function differently for each type of message.
Perceived complexity of western and African folk melodies by western and African listeners
2006
Stylistic knowledge and enculturation play a significant role in music perception, although the importance of psychophysical cues in perception of emotions in music has been acknowledged. The psychophysical cues, such as melodic complexity, are assumed to be independent of musical experience. A cross-cultural comparison was used to investigate the ratings of melodic complexity of western and African participants for western (Experiment 1) and African folk songs (Experiment 2). A range of melodic complexity measures was developed to discover what factors contribute to complexity. On the whole, the groups gave similar patterns of responses in both experiments. In Experiment 1, western folk s…
Simulating music with associative self-organizing maps
2018
Abstract We present an architecture able to recognise pitches and to internally simulate likely continuations of partially heard melodies. Our architecture consists of a novel version of the Associative Self-Organizing Map (A-SOM) with generalized ancillary connections. We tested the performance of our architecture with melodies from a publicly available database containing 370 Bach chorale melodies. The results showed that the architecture could learn to represent and perfectly simulate the remaining 20% of three different interrupted melodies when using a context length of 8 centres of activity in the A-SOM. These promising and encouraging results show that our architecture offers somethi…