Abstract Harmon ization of popular songs in Brazil has, for quite so me time, been considered worthy of the attention of both music theorists and musicologists. Theaccompanimentsattract attention due to their varied and sometimes original character. The peculiarit ies of the harmonizat ion

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Abstract—This paper presents a method for extracting vocal melodies from popular songs. Underlying the extraction proce-dure is a sinusoidal representation applied to the input song signal. The desired vocal melody is isolated by focusing on specific (amplitude- and frequency-modulated) sinusoids

by asking “what meanings can experiencing a song have and how does it create those meanings? ” (1). Answering these questions is at the heart of Moore’s text, through a discourse on how we can analyze and subjectively create meaningful relationships with popular music songs. Moore treats analysis

Tunes, lyrics, recordings, sheet music–all are components of popular songs, and all can serve as evidence of peoples, places, and attitudes of the past. Written by Ronald J. Walters and John Spitzer, Making Sense of American Popular Song provides a place for students and teachers to begin working

for better classification accuracy. Experimental evaluations conducted on a database of 20 popular music songs show the validity of the proposed approach. 1.

Signal separation from mix has been an interest of research in recent years, and many learning algorithms and variations have been developed. In this paper we focus on separation of specific type of signal with practical application: musical instrument signal separation. The result of such separation can be used

into consideration for achieving a more successful teaching and learning. The objective of this study was to explore whether the use of English popular songs can enhance elementary school students ’ motivation for learning English. It was also an attempt to investigate the relationships between learning motivation

This article introduces an early Victorian popular song, with some preliminary reflections on how it, and indeed similar texts, might be relevant to twentieth and twenty-first century practitioners and critics of steampunk. ‘The Steam Arm ’ describes a veteran who acquires a prosthetic limb

T’ûrot’û (its name derived from the Korean pronunciation of the English, trot) is a South Korean sentimental love song style performed with an abundance of vocal inflections. While this popular music has existed in the music scene of Korea for more than eight decades, it has been received