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Showing 1 to 20 of 291 for “"melody"”.
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Melody retrieval on the Web
… and practical issues involved in a web-based melody retrieval system. I built a query-by-humming system, which can find a piece of music in the digital music repository based on a few hummed notes. Since an input query (hummed melody) may have various errors due to uncertainty of the user's …
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Melody : a distributed music-sharing system
… to keyword search. This thesis discusses Melody, a music sharing system that implements a directory hierarchy. Melody is built on Chord, a distributed lookup algorithm, and DHash, a distributed hash table. We evaluate the performance consequences and usability of Melody. In addition, this …
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Determining the key of a melody
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985
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The Heroes of Main Melody: Textual analysis of the Protagonists’ Masculine Traits in Chinese Main Melody Films.
Tässä tutkielmassa tarkastelen kiinalaisen main melody (zhuxuanlü) elokuvatyypin päähenkilöiden maskuliinisten piirteiden ja käytöksen representaatioita. Main melody tai leitmotif elokuvat on tarkoitettu palvelemaan Kiinan valtion ideologista koneistoa ja ylläpitämään johtavan puolueen legitiimiä. …
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TELLING STORIES: AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH-MELODY COMPOSITIONS AND AN ORIGINAL SPEECH-MELODY COMPOSITION FOR WIND ENSEMBLE
… explores the compositional technique of speech melody and provides a brief historical overview of speech in music. This thesis also examines recent works (2005-2014) that have sourced their melodies from the spoken word and in turn creates an original composition for wind ensemble consisting of …
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A melody description system for jazz improvisation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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Lyrics generation constrained by tone, melody and imagery
… are in Mandarin, the method has to achieve melody--tone matching. Different representations of Mandarin tones are possible, depending on how many different tone heights are defined, from 3 to 6 heights. Experimentally, I find that the lyrics generator that is trained on 3-height scansion …
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SONIC INTERVENTIONS: SILENCE, SOUND, AND MELODY IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
In “Sonic Interventions: Silence, Sound, and Melody in Medieval Literature,” I examine five early literary texts, spanning from the late-fifth to early-fifteenth-century: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the anonymous Le Roman de Silence, the aptly named Book of Margery Kempe, John Gower’s …
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Neural ProbabilisticModels for Melody Prediction, Sequence Labelling and Classification
… result of relaxing an assumption specific to the melody modelling task. The generalised model was evaluated on a benchmark dataset and compared against a set of 8 baseline models where it faired better than all of them. Furthermore, a theoretical extension to an existingmodel which was also …
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Using contour as a mid-level representation of melody
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Can adults learn absolute pitch? Evaluating the “Melody Triggers” method
… AP by training to associate pitch labels with "Melody Triggers" (Aruffo, 2007b). It also investigates two further hypotheses: (a) that identifying pitches within a musical listening task poses a different—and greater—challenge than identifying isolated pitches; and (b) that this dimension of AP …
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Can Adults Learn Absolute Pitch? Evaluating the "Melody Triggers" Method
… AP by training to associate pitch labels with "Melody Triggers" (Aruffo, 2007b). It also investigates two further hypotheses: (a) that identifying pitches within a musical listening task poses a different—and greater—challenge than identifying isolated pitches; and (b) that this dimension of AP …
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Between Occitania and Al-Andalus: Reconsidering the Emergence of Troubadour Melody Through Algorithmic Analysis
… focuses upon the emergence of troubadour melody, using algorithmic analysis to perform a large comparative study of three repertoires: (1) the complete corpus of extant and complete troubadour melodies, (2) a sample of 158 melodies from contemporary unwritten Andalusi music of Morocco, and …
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Neural correlates of pitch and roughness : toward the neural code for melody and harmony
… correlates of pitch, the essential element of melody, and roughness, a primary component of dissonance, in responses of single auditory neurons in anesthetized cats. Pitch, the perceived highness or lowness of sound, is generally thought to be based on a neurophysiological representation of …
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The relationship between melody and prosody: perception and production capabilities of musicians and non-musicians
… of intonations and inflections resulting in melody and prosody, respectively. Previous research has demonstrated that musicians are more successful than non-musicians at detecting pitch errors in speech and melody. These results are often due to extensive musical training beginning at an …
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The effect of rhythm and melody on language development and sensory organization in children with autism
… to provide organization, such as rhythm and melody, may facilitate language skill development and sensory organization for children with autism. This project inquired whether rhythmic speech or melody during free-play and intervention sessions could help increase language production and …
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3x5 for concert band ; an analysis of the numerical bases of rhythm, gesture, melody and form
3x5 for Concert Band uses the numbers three and five as the basis of many smalland large-scale aspects of the work. The two numbers act as generative numbers, underlying such features of the work as length of melodic and rhythmic gestures, polyrhythmic interaction, articulation of significant …
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"Los motz e.l so": words melody, and their interaction in the songs of Folquet de Marseille
… is avoided and coherence achieved as the same melody is sung for five or six stanzas of words. The musical settings of the proverbs underscore their separation from the overall first-person lyric discourse; melodic repetition links the proverbs within the song.
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A Study and Comparison of Two Trinidadian Panorama Arrangements for Steelband by Jit Samaroo: “Pan in a Minor” and “The Bee’s Melody
… Samaroo: “Pan in A Minor” (1987) and “The Bee’s Melody” (1992). These works are analyzed to understand his arranging style and their significance within the field of steelband music. The study addresses the cursory scholarship on Panorama arrangements and focuses on how Samaroo reinterpreted …
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Developing a Genetic Transformation Protocol for American Grapes (Vitis X Lambruscana) and Transforming Vitis to Produce Parthenocarpic Fruits
… and a seedling of a complex hybrid of 'Melody' (='Melody Seedling') with the gene Agl-iaaM (Agl = flower specific and developing fruit specific promoter; iaaM = indoleacetamide monooxygenase gene), which should induce seedlessness in these grape cultivars. To achieve this goal, three …
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