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Irony in song
“Perfect Day” by Lou Reed and “Village Ghetto Land” by Stevie Wonder are prime examples of “melic” irony in song—cases in which expressive irony is...
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Flexible circuit mechanisms for context-dependent song sequencing
Sequenced behaviours, including locomotion, reaching and vocalization, are patterned differently in different contexts, enabling animals to adjust to...
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Syntactic rules predict song type matching in a songbird
AbstractSong type matching has been hypothesized to be a graded signal of aggression; however, it is often the case that variation in matching...
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Bursts of white noise trigger song in domestic Canaries
Acoustic communication is fundamentally constrained by noise. In birds, the masking of mating signals (songs) may reduce fitness and, hence, they...
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Potential social facilitation through song in bird communities
AbstractThe main function of birdsong is to attract mates and defend territories among conspecifics, but little is known about the potential of this...
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Song authorship attribution: a lyrics and rhyme based approach
In this work, we apply authorship attribution to a large-scale corpus of song lyrics. As a sub-category of poetry, song lyrics embody cultural...
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Song amplitude variation in Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila dumicola) as response to traffic noise
The vocal behavior of Neotropical birds has received less attention compared to birds in Northern temperate regions. Many bird species rely on...
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What Song Am I Thinking Of?
Information Need (IN) is a complex phenomenon due to the difficulty experienced when realising and formulating it into a query format. This leads to...
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Musical Meter as Shape: An Embodied Perspective on Metrical Trajectories and Curves
The perception of musical rhythm includes not only the sonic rhythm but also the endogenous reference structures, such as meter. Musical meter is...
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Construction and optimization of non-parametric analysis model for meter coefficients via back propagation neural network
This study addresses the drawbacks of traditional methods used in meter coefficient analysis, which are low accuracy and long processing time. A new...
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The influence of memory on the speech-to-song illusion
In the speech-to-song illusion a spoken phrase is presented repeatedly and begins to sound as if it is being sung. Anecdotal reports suggest that...
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POMET: a corpus for poetic meter classification
The availability of appropriate research corpora is a fundamental concern in music information retrieval research. This paper addresses the design,...
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Interspecific avoidance of song overlap in tropical songbirds: species-specific responses to acoustically similar and different intruders
AbstractTo ensure effective acoustic communication, signals should reach receivers in the least distorted form possible. Animals use various short-...
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A Cell-free Protein Synthesis Method for the Detection of Heavy Metal Ions Using a Personal Glucose Meter
Heavy metal pollution of water can pose a serious threat to public health. Because pollution can occur at multiple stages of water distribution,...
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Hitting all the notes: Connecticut warblers sing an extended song type
Birds use songs to communicate with mates and rivals and thus these signals have important social and fitness consequences. Understanding the pattern...
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Silence, Rhyme, and Motherhood in Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song
In Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872), Christina Rossetti uses abruptly shortened lines to enforce intrapoetic pausing, thus creating ambiguous...
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Ci in the Song Dynasty
The origin of ci was inseparable from the popularity of banquet music. Feast was the main occasion for ci performance, and to entertain and amuse the...
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Ceramics of the Song, Liao and ** Dynasties
After the wars at the end ofTang Dynasty, The the Tang DynastyTang Dynasty and the chaos ofFive Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, The the Five...
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Optimizing song retention through the spacing effect
The spacing effect refers to the improvement in memory retention for materials learned in a series of sessions, as opposed to massing learning in a...
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Mathematics and Poetic Meter
The word meter means variously “poetic metre, measure, rule, length, size.” And while some theorists of poetic rhythm and meter have preferred the...