• The effects of musical fit on choice between two competing foods 

  Yeoh, Joanne P.S.; North, Adrian C. (2010)

  Two experiments investigated the impact of musical "fit" on consumer choice. In Experiment 1, Malaysian participants of Malay, Indian, or Chinese ethnicity chose between Malay and Western food while either Malay or Western ...

• A preliminary investigation into the association between body movement patterns and dynamic variation in western contemporary popular singing 

  Turner, Gemma; Kenny, Dianna T. (2010)

  This study assessed the presence of body movements that may be common to all western contemporary popular (WCP) singers that may be integral to both the physical production of the sung sound and to acoustic output, in this ...

• Musical tastes of secondary school students' with different cultural backgrounds: a study in the spanish north african city of Melilla 

  Cremades, Roberto; Lorenzo, Oswaldo; Herrera, Lucia (2010)

  The purpose of this study is to analyze the musical tastes of secondary school students in terms of cultural origin, in the Spanish city of Melilla, a North African enclave bordered by Morocco and characterized by its ...

• Mobile listening situations in everyday life: The use of MP3 players while travelling 

  Heye, Andreas; Lamont, Alexandra (2010)

  Due to technological developments including MP3 format and portable music players, people are now easily able to listen to music to accompany almost every everyday life situation, and music listening is particularly common ...

• Perceived improvement in vocal performance following tertiary-level classical vocal training: do listeners hear systematic progress? 

  Mitchell, Helen F.; Kenny, Dianna T.; Ryan, Maree (2010)

  This study assessed expert listeners' perceptual evaluations of the vocal performances of tertiary level classical singing students over two complete years of training. Fifteen singers sang Caccini's Amarilli, mia bella ...

• Comparison of rhythm in musical scores and performances as measured with the Pairwise Variability Index 

  Raju, Marju; Asu, Eeva Liina; Ross, Jaan (2010)

  This paper tests two hypotheses: (1) the normalized Pairwise Variability Index (nPVI) values computed on the basis of recorded performances may be higher than the nPVI values computed for the same works as musical scores, ...

• Memesatz contra Ursatz: Memetic perspectives on the aetiology and evolution of musical structure 

  Jan, Steven (2010)

  This article discusses the aetiology and evolution of musical structure, specifically the sonata-form exposition, from a memetic perspective. It regards established musical forms as replicated schemata arising from the ...

• Court decisions on music plagiarism and the predictive value of similarity algorithms 

  Mullensiefen, Daniel; Pendzich, Marc (2009)

  Tune plagiarism in pop music is a common and often feverishly debated phenomenon which surely has to do with the vast amounts of money that individual melodies are able to generate in today s pop music business. The ...

• A content-based music retrieval engine: JMIR-Mozart 

  Ala-Härkönen, Väinö; Brunberg, Jussi; Lemström, Kjell; Mikkilä, Niko (2009)

  The rapid increase of storage capacity has brought along large-scale multimedia databases. To access such databases, content-based retrieval methods are needed in order to avoid the burden of handcraft involved in building ...

• Some vantage indexing approaches for rhythmic and melodic search 

  Typke, R.; Walczak-Typke, A. C. (2009)

  In this paper, we discuss several improvements and approaches to musical content-based search that utilize the vantage indexing technique. We show how one can build an optimum vantage index for a variant of the Earth Mover ...

• Using the same to make different. Analysis of a traditional musical repertoire based on centonisation 

  Tourny, Olivier (2009)

  This paper deals with music based on Centonisation, a compositional technique broadly used during the Middle Age, still at work in many musical traditions around the world. Based on a limited stock of melodic patterns, it ...

• Primary versus secondary musical parameters and the classification of melodic motives 

  Eitan, Zohar; Granot, Roni Y. (2009)

  Music theorists often maintain that motivic categorization in music is determined by primary musical parameters music-specific aspects of pitch and temporal structure, like pitch intervals or metric hierarchies, serving ...

• A different kind of similarity: the recognition of style in listening 

  Baroni, Mario (2009)

  Recognising a musical style implies managing a number of similarities. However, the nature of such similarities and their organisation within a piece of music are radically different from those discussed in Forum A4, where ...

• Similarity perception as a cognitive tool for musical sense-making: deictic and ecological claims 

  Reybrouck, Mark (2009)

  This is a programmatic paper. It elaborates on the concept of similarity as a cognitive tool for sense-making in music. Taking as a starting point the definition of similarity as a relational concept, it tries to provide ...

• Similarity relations between groups of notes: Music-theoretical and music-psychological perspectives 

  Ockelford, Adam (2009)

  The starting point of this article is Irène Deliège s essay on the similarity relationships that, it is claimed, lie at the heart of creating and cognising musical structure (2007): in particular (though not exclusively) ...

• Taxonomic categorisation of motivic patterns 

  Lartillot, Olivier (2009)

  The issue of pattern description in computational models for motivic analysis is closely related to the cognitive debate on categorisation, in which are traditionally opposed well-defined and ill-defined categorisations. ...

• How similar is similar? 

  Cambouropoulos, Emilios (2009)

  In the first part of the paper a theoretical discussion is presented regarding the fundamental concept of similarity and its relation to cue abstraction and categorisation. It is maintained that similarity is by definition ...

• Editorial 

  Toiviainen, Petri (2009)

   

• Book reviews 

  Various (2009)

   

• Pertinence cognitive des unités sémiotiques temporelles 

  Frey, Aline; Daquet, Alice; Poitrenaud, Sebastien; Tijus, Charles; Fremiot, Marcel; Formosa, Marcel; Prod homme, Lucie; Mandelbrojt, Jacques; Timsit-Berthier, Martine; Bootz, Philippe; Hautbois, Xavier; Besson, Mireille (2009)

  Dans la lignée des travaux de Pierre Schaeffer, le laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille (MIM) a mis en évidence des figures temporelles sonores dénommées Unités Sémiotiques Temporelles (UST) qui correspondent ...

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