Top Research Papers on Music

This column features percussion music by women composers. Names were compiled using the Theodore Front database. Additional names were contributed by Ross Karre, Associate Professor of Percussion, in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The lists of works included are not comprehensive for each composer but are rather either recently published or notable. Special thanks to Jake Balmuth for assisting with this column.

The Psychology of Music provides an overview of the perception of musical tones by discussing different sound characteristics, like loudness, pitch and timbre, together with interaction between these attributes.

This work introduces MusicGen, a single Language Model that operates over several streams of compressed discrete music representation, i.e., tokens, and demonstrates how MusicGen can generate high-quality samples, while being conditioned on textual description or melodic features, allowing better controls over the generated output.

This research was conducted at PT. Musical Instruments that aim to analyze quality control to reduce appearance defects in piano products on the assembling production line. The problem faced by the company is the high level of product defects which has an impact on decreasing quality and customer satisfaction. The research method used is Six sigma with a DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) approach. This type of research is quantitative, with data collected in the form of the number of production defects in pianos. To analyze the causes of defects, a fishbone diagram with 4M + 1...

Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. By Lawrence Kramer. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.) (xvii, 297 p. ISBN 0-520-08820-4. $35.00.] In this, his third book on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music as "cultural practice," Lawrence Kramer takes on one of the thorniest problems facing musicology today: resistance to the idea that music means anything other than itself. He disagrees with those who believe that masterpieces are works which "transcend all social utility" and "into which the social as such disappears without a trace" (p. 235). Kramer wants to show the contra...

This work proposes Music ControlNet, a diffusion-based music generation model that offers multiple precise, time-varying controls over generated audio, and devise a new masking strategy to allow creators to input controls that are only partially specified in time.

An enactive account of musicality that proposes new ways of thinking about musical experience, musical development in infancy, music and evolution, and more.Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new ways of understanding musical experience, the devel...

MusicLM is introduced, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as "a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff" that can transform whistled and hummed melodies according to the style described in a text caption.

Music empathizing (ME) and music systemizing (MS) are constructs representing cognitive styles that address different facets of interest in music listening. Here we investigate whether ME and MS are positively associated with feelings of reward in response to music listening (MR). We conducted an online-survey in which n = 202 (127 identifying as female) participants, Mage = 26.06 years, SDage = 8.66 years, filled out the Music-Empathizing-Music-Systemizing (MEMS) Inventory, the Barcelona Questionnaire of Music Reward (BMRQ), further music-related inventories, and ad hoc items representing gen...

While the aesthetics of Rancière is a well explored topic, there has been something missing from the reception of his works, and that is the relation between Rancière’s aesthetics and music. However, in recent years an interest in this relation has resulted in several academic contributions, which is sign enough that there is in fact a musical element in his works. Rancière himself, in response to this reception, has acknowledged as much. Music is a human form of expression that uses the physicality of air to produce vibrations that encounter and resonate with the human body. Musicality is t...

Reseña de Cory D. Meals del libro Musical Bodies, Musical Minds: Enactive Cognitive Science and The Meaning of Human Musicality, de Dylan van der Schyff, Andrea Schiavio y David J. Elliott. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022.

This work establishes the rhythmic relationships between video and background music, and proposes CMT, a Controllable Music Transformer that enables the local control of the aforementioned rhythmic features, as well as the global Control of the music genre and the used instrument specified by users.

Across music disciplines, authenticity has been referred to in various ways. Within music therapy and music teaching, only sparsely has it been discussed focusing on the intrapersonal aspects of authenticity. This study seeks to explore and understand authenticity as experienced and expressed by three music professionals practicing within the areas of music therapy, music teaching, and music performance, the goal being primarily to deepen, enrich, and understand the authenticity experience to possibly benefit professionals and their clients, students, and audiences. Three music professionals h...

This article introduces affordable tablet-based virtual instruments (Korean hyang-piri, Chinese erhu, and Japanese koto) and hands-on music activities to help students gain deeper understandings of East Asian music cultures.

A Hyperbolic Music Transformer model is proposed, which considers the hierarchy in music and models the structured components of music in hyperbolic space and is able to generate high-quality music with structure.

A pioneering contribution in the form of a text-to-waveform music generation model, underpinned by the utilization of diffusion models, based on the innovative incorporation of free-form textual prompts as conditional factors to guide the waveform generation process within the diffusion model framework.

It is demonstrated that the effectiveness of musical supervision varies by task - specifically, tag-level supervision improves tagging performance while track-level supervision enhances retrieval performance, which suggests that the choice of musical supervision in representation learning needs to be carefully considered based on the target task.

Through the examination of past and current practice, survey and interview, this article discusses how music from the widest parameters may be included in mainstream education in Wales. In 2014, the Welsh Government commissioned Professor Graham Donaldson to review the curriculum and assessment arrangements in schools in Wales. The outcome, Successful Futures: Independent Review of Curriculum and Assessment Arrangements in Wales (2015), was adopted by the Welsh Government for implementation by 2021. This new curriculum and its approach to learning and teaching offers the opportunity to re-ex...

This article analyses the classification of musical forms in Western art music. It examines how some sources in the music domain classify musical forms, and the categorisations and complexities inherent within these classifications. It analyses the table of contents from music domain textbooks, treating them as knowledge organisation systems, as well as analysing music domain descriptions of the knowledge organisation of forms. Form is found to be a complicated type of information, with an intriguing relationship to genre. The analysis of domain classifications reveals five key categorisations...

Tang Hanedanlığı, Çin tarihinde kültürel ve edebi zenginliğin en fazla görüldüğü dönemdir. Bu dönemde Türk kavimleriyle yaşanan askerî mücadeleler dışında Türk kültürünün Çin kültürüne yansımaları da açıkça görülmektedir. Kültürel yansımalardan bir tanesi olan müzik, çalışmamızın ana konusunu oluşturmaktadır. Türk kavimlerinin geniş bir coğrafi alanı kapsıyor olması sebebiyle konu, etkileşimin en fazla olduğu Göktürkler, Uygurlar ve Kırgızların müzik kültürleriyle sınırlandırılmıştır. Önce bu üç Türk kavminin müzik kültürleri hakkında bilgi verilmiştir. Çalışmanın devamında Tang dönemi Çin mü...

Results indicate that all LLMs perform poorly on the ZIQI-Eval benchmark, suggesting significant room for improvement in their musical capabilities.

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of music appreciation based on classical music activities on musical aptitude of young children. Methods The subjects of this study were 56 who were 5-years-old children enrolled in D kindergarten located G city. To compare the effects of experimental treatments on young children’s musical aptitude scores of pre-test and post-test were analyzed by independent t-test applying SPSS 22.0 program. Hedges'g values were calcu-lated examine the effect size of music appreciation based on classical music activities on musical aptitude of y...

This paper proposes two architectures for Immersive Networked Music Performances (INMPs), which differ for the physical positions of the computing blocks constituting the 3D audio toolchain, and illustrates how to integrate in the architectures machine learning algorithms for network traffic prediction and audio packet loss concealment.

There are compelling reasons to believe that musical works are abstract. However, this hypothesis conflicts with the platitude that musical works are appreciated by means of audition: the things that enter our ear canals and make our eardrums vibrate must be concrete, so how can musical works be listened to if they are abstract? This question constitutes the audibility problem. In this paper, I assess Julian Dodd’s elaborate attempt to solve it, and contend that Dodd’s attempt is unsuccessful. Then I discuss what I take to be the ideal response to the audibility problem, and show that it ult...

The experiments demonstrate that the proposed MU-LLaMA model, trained on the designed MusicQA dataset, achieves outstanding performance in both music question answering and music caption generation across various metrics, outperforming current state-of-the-art (SOTA) models in both fields and offering a promising advancement in the T2M-Gen research field.

The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music. Thanks to the advent of neuroaesthetics, research on music cognition has broadened its scope by considering the multifarious phenomenon of listening in all its forms, including incidental listening up to the skillful attentive listening of experts, and all its possible effects. These latter range from objective and sensorial effects directly linked to the acoustic features of the music to the subjectively affective and ev...

Pythagoras combined within one person the attributes of a mystic, philosopher, and scientist, as one laying down the foundations of science, as well as influencing all European ethics not directly inherited from the East.

Some types of music can disrupt nighttime sleep by inducing long-lasting earworms that are perpetuated by spontaneous memory-reactivation processes, and this possibility is substantiated by showing a significant increase in frontal slow oscillation activity, a marker of sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

This paper draws on both cognitive musicology and neuroscience to outline a comprehensive framework of musical interaction, exploring several aspects of making music in dyads, from a very basic proto-musical action, like tapping, to more sophisticated contexts, like playing a jazz standard and singing a hocket melody.

This article explores music as a religious ritual accompaniment within the realm of Balinese Hinduism in Bali, Indonesia, and the spiritual dimensions of music as a “tool” and a “ritual” in itself, within the Hindu-based Siddha Yoga practices and philosophies of sacred sound and the devotional worship of arati.

A unique examination of how evolutionary thought intersects with music, Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music is essential to the authors' understanding of how and why music arose in their species and why it is such a significant presence in their lives.

The Music Question Answering task is put forward, which aims to provide accurate answers given music and related questions and made MQAdataset based on MagnaTagATune, which contains seven basic categories.

Music therapy is efficacious for the treatment of depression. Compared to other psychotherapeutic forms, it allows for the emergence of various modes of mutual interaction, thus enabling multiple channels for emotional expression and fostering therapeutic alliance. Although musical interaction patterns between client and therapist have been regarded as predictors of therapeutic outcome in depression, this has not yet been systematically investigated. We aim to address this gap by analyzing the possible linkage between musical interaction features and changes in depression score. In a clinical ...

The paper explores students’ preferences for classical music, 20th century music, and world music, as well as the influence of student age, gender, and previous familiarity with the piece of music on the preferences for 20th century music and world music. As a part of the research, a general data ques[1]tionnaire and an assessment scale for testing preferences for musical fragments were administered to the sample of 183 students in fourth and eighth grades of primary school and senior students attending grammar school. Students gener[1]ally show greatest preferences for world music. The influe...

A realistic, end-to-end communication architecture for a IoMusT system based on public fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks that considers a networked music performance use case, and a model for the resulting system is introduced.

COVID-19 induced restrictions ordered by governments around the world have been an exogenous shock to the music industry, which we divide into two affected groups: 1) live music events and 2) recorded music. While the impact on live music events is rather obvious, it is unclear how the current pandemic is affecting the recorded music market. Hence, we study consumers’ pre- and post-pandemic shifts in consumer spending (in euros) and music consumption (in hours) across live music events, as well as the digital and physical submarkets of recorded music, in the world’s fourth largest music market...

Black Music Aesthetics (BMA), guided by conceptual approaches grounded in African belief systems, are found in the structure and performance practices of Black musics. Music education in American society leans strongly toward Western European aesthetics, which includes: the centrality of rhythm, pitch, and harmony to musical understanding; a reliance on written notation for preserving and sharing musical ideas; and a primary focus on sounds. While Black music and musicality can be explored using Western European aesthetics, they cannot be thoroughly explored in this way. In this series of arti...

A music recommendation model is built that helps user to recommend music automatically based on similarity of the available music and this model also used to predict the rank of music as music recommendation.

Some of you may be wondering “What is analytical music therapy and why is there a special issue of the Nordic Journal being dedicated to it?” The term analytical music therapy (AMT) refers to a specific model of practice and not just to any application of music therapy incorporating psychoanalytic practices or theories. It is a model largely developed by the British music therapist Mary Priestley (1975, 1994, 2012) whose trainees took aspects of the model into academic music therapy training programs in Europe. One person who trained directly with Priestley was Benedikte B. Scheiby, a Danish m...

Given its importance in children’s development and learning, researchers have rigorously studied play, and many teachers have used it as a classroom tool. Music researchers have observed that music regularly accompanies children’s play because music is part of their culture, and “playing with music” is the most natural form of expression of their existence as musical beings. Hence, play is at the heart of early childhood music, and music teachers design activities that are playful using manipulatives, instruments, movements, and musical sounds to engage children. However, scant research has ex...

The vitality and affective potential of the live concert experience is a result of rich, cross-sensory interactions and varied participatory practices. The complexity of such entanglements has recently led philosophers to argue for an enactive, affordance-based approach that interrogates a variety of perceptual and sensory possibilities inherent in aesthetic experiences. Further, Shaun Gallagher's recent addition of the 4As (Affect, Agency, Affordance, Autonomy) to the 4Es (Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended) for clarifying mind–world relations seem to have potent explanatory power for thes...

Music foundation models possess impressive music generation capabilities. When people compose music, they may infuse their understanding of music into their work, by using notes and intervals to craft melodies, chords to build progressions, and tempo to create a rhythmic feel. To what extent is this true of music generation models? More specifically, are fundamental Western music theory concepts observable within the"inner workings"of these models? Recent work proposed leveraging latent audio representations from music generation models towards music information retrieval tasks (e.g. genre cla...

An annotation-free method to build a new dataset where each sample is a triplet of lyric, melody and emotion label (without requiring any labours), and shows that ELMG is capable of generating tuneful lyric and melody with specified human emotions.

Music technologies reflect the most advanced human technologies in most historical periods. Examples range from 40 thousand years old bone flutes found in caves in the Swabian Jura, through ancient Greek water organs or medieval Arabic musical automata, to today’s electronic and digital instruments with deep learning. Music technologies incorporate the musical ideas of a time and place and they disseminate those ideas when adopted by other musical cultures. This article explores how contemporary music technologies are culturally conditioned and applies the concept of ethno-organology to descri...

MeLoDy is presented, an LM-guided diffusion model that generates music audios of state-of-the-art quality meanwhile reducing 95.7% or 99.6% forward passes in MusicLM, respectively, for sampling 10s or 30s music.

Since post-war II, music education has advocated its presumed aesthetic benefits. Aesthetic advocacy became instituted through the abundance of publications by Bennett Reimer (e.g., 1970, 1989, 1995, 2003). That aesthetic meme is still influential. The debate about Music Education as Aesthetic Education MEAE may be weakening; still, the philosophically untutored conviction remains that involvement with music automatically promotes an educationally valuable aesthetic experience. Hence, teachers need only to enable music experiences. By definition, however, aesthetic experiences defy explicit ev...

The subjective listening tests show that the Emotionbox has a competitive performance in generating different emotional music and significantly better performance in Generating music with low arousal emotions, especially peaceful emotion, compared with the emotion-label-based method.

Musical compositions require genre-specific sophisticated performance techniques. This paper focuses primarily on the features of Chinese pop and traditional music, based on the music genre’s influence on the vocal music. To achieve this goal, the analysis methods and the Shapiro-Wilk test were used. The study involved 218 music major students from the Beijing International Art School, Shanghai Normal University, and Guangzhou College of Music. The audience and respondents gave less preference to pop music (47% and 39%) compared to the traditional music (53% and 61%). The Shapiro-Wilk test rev...

The suggested micro-intervention format could lead to a greater reliability in empirical research through the recognition of the working-mechanisms of music therapy intervention at a micro-level.

This work discusses issues and the future of deep learning in the study of traditional music, as an increasing number of research groups begin to develop works centered on traditional music.