Music genomics: Determining musical similarities with seriation algorithms

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550041
Author(s):  
Nakhila Mistry ◽  
Crista Arangala
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Tool ◽  
Musical Structure ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Popular Songs

Music plays a prominent role in society and companies have even started studying its aspects for commercial purposes. It is only natural to ask what characteristics make certain songs appealing. While much research has been conducted on the mathematical principles of sound, there has been less focus on analyzing the structure of popular songs from a mathematical perspective. One mathematical tool that researchers have used to study musical structure is seriation, ordering. This paper applies several types of seriation algorithms to conduct a mathematical analysis of the structural qualities of several musical pieces. This paper focuses on 10 popular artists and their musical influences. The artists chosen for this research are linked because of the influences they cite, musical genre, and the popularity of their music. Results show that an artist’s songs have a higher quantitatively measured connection with the artists they cite as influences rather than the artists who they never mention as musical influences.

scholarly journals Mathematical model of environmental waters purification

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 01056
Author(s):  
Yuri Skolubovich ◽  
Alexey Skolubovich ◽  
Dmitry Volkov ◽  
Tamara Krasnova ◽  
Elena Gogina
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Stochastic Approach ◽  
Mathematical Tool ◽  
Environmental Waters ◽  
Mass Service ◽  
Coagulation Process ◽  
Service Theory

This article describes the use of the stochastic approach, in particular, mass service theory and the development of its methods, adapted directly to the coagulation process as a mathematical tool. The coagulation process will be concerned as a) supplying water to the mixer, b) processing it with reagents (coagulants), c) settling for the mathematical analysis of water clarification effectiveness.

‘Play it again Sam’: Some notes on the productivity of repetition in popular music

Popular Music ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 235-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Musical Structure ◽  
Music Production ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Fredric Jameson

Repetition, as a component of musical structure in popular songs, has long played an important part in ‘popular common-sense’ definitions, and criticisms, of the music. ‘It's monotonous’; ‘it's all the same’; ‘it's predictable’: such reactions have probably filtered down from the discussions of mass culture theorists. From this point of view, repetition (within a song) can be assimilated to the same category as what Adorno termed standardisation (as between songs). Of course, the significance of the role played by such techniques in the operations of the music industry – their efficacy in helping to define and hold markets, to channel types of consumption, to pre-form response and to make listening easy – can hardly be denied; it is, however, equally difficult to reduce the function of repetition simply to an analysis of the ‘political economy’ of popular music production and its ideological effects. Despite Adorno's critical assault (see Adorno 1941), despite later twists to the theory by, for instance, Fredric Jameson (1981), who argues that rather than being a negative quality of mass culture, repetition is simply a fundamental characteristic of all cultural production under contemporary capitalism, the question of repetition refuses to go away. Why do listeners find interest and pleasure in hearing the same thing over again? To be able to answer this question, which has troubled not only mass cultural theory but also traditional philosophical aesthetics, as well as more recent approaches such as psychoanalysis and information theory, would tell us more about the nature of popular music, and hence, mutatis mutandis, about music in general, than almost anything else. We must start by locating repetition within an overall theory of musical syntax.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Influence of Astronomical Cyclicity on Sedimentation Processes in the Eastern Paratethys Based on Paleomagnetic Measurements Using Discrete Mathematical Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 580
Author(s):  
Boris A. Dzeboev ◽  
Anastasia A. Odintsova ◽  
Alena I. Rybkina ◽  
Boris V. Dzeranov
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Mathematical Tool ◽  
Mathematical Geology ◽  
Taman Peninsula ◽  
Magnetic Parameters ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Mathematical Processing ◽  
Sedimentation Processes

The introduction of modern methods for the mathematical processing of geological data is one of the promising areas of study and development in the field of geosciences. For example, today mathematical geology makes it possible to reliably identify astronomical cycles by measuring the scalar magnetic parameters of rocks (magnetic susceptibility). The main aim of this study is to develop a mathematical tool for identifying stable oscillation cycles (periods) in the dataset of the magnetic susceptibility of rocks in a geological section. The author’s method (algorithm) is based on the concept of discrete mathematical analysis—an innovative mathematical approach to the analysis of discrete geological and geophysical data. Its reliability is also demonstrated, by comparison with the results obtained by classical methods: Fourier analysis, Lomb periodogram, and REDFIT. The proposed algorithm was applied by the authors to analyze the material of field geological studies of the Zhelezny Rog section (Taman Peninsula). As a result, stable cycles were determined for the Pontian and Lower Maeotian sedimentary strata of the Black Sea Basin (Paratethys).

Mateo Flecha's Ensaladas

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 146-146
Author(s):  
Jane Canova
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Regional Dialects ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Original Manuscript ◽  
Biblical Verse

Catalan Mateo Flecha the Elder (1481–1553) is best known for his ensaladas, a musical genre that was popular in the sixteenth-century on the Iberian Peninsula. Ensaladas are poetic compositions sung in four or five voices alternating homophonic passages with polyphonic ones. The lyrics are a mixture of refrains from popular songs and biblical verse along with the composer's original lines; they often include regional dialects and foreign words in a humorous, nonsensical way. Mateo Flecha composed eleven ensaladas, which were assembled and published by his nephew, F. Mateo Flecha the Younger in Prague, 1581. The original manuscript is held in the Library of Orfeó Català at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

Introductions and Acknowledgments

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
W. Anthony Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Film Scores ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Musical Works

Over the course of the past century and a half, numerous composers, musicians, and audiences in the United States have imagined Japan through works created and experienced in every musical genre and medium. Some of these popular songs, film scores, and Broadway musicals reached large audiences over an extended period. The vast majority of these works proved more ephemeral, but nevertheless were culturally significant through their collective impact. This book investigates the reciprocal relationships among this diverse body of musical works, the ever protean political dynamic between the United States and Japan, and the evolving American social climate in which this music was created and experienced. To what extent was music employed to shape American perceptions of the Japanese, and to what extent was American music itself shaped in the process?...

Making music on the march: sledging songs of the ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration

Polar Record ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 698-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Philpott ◽  
Elizabeth Leane
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Physical Demands ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Antarctic Environment

ABSTRACTDuring the so-called ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration (c.1897–1922), various parties of men invented songs to aid the act of sledging and to provide a mental diversion from the monotony of the task and the physical demands it made on the human body. Songs composed in this uniquely polar musical genre typically included rhyming lyrics that were highly motivational and expressed a united identity. The lyrics were usually set to the melodies of popular songs of the day. When voiced in unison by men out ‘on the march,’ sledging songs could help to promote team synchronisation and cohesion, and give the act of sledging (as well as the expeditions as a whole) a stronger sense of purpose and meaning. The singing of such songs, therefore, contributed in a very practical way to the overall success of many Antarctic expeditions of the ‘heroic age’. This article examines three sledging songs dating from this period of Antarctic exploration and investigates the historical context in which they were created and performed. It also considers what these songs reveal about the experiences of the men who participated in the sledging journeys and their earliest perceptions of the Antarctic environment.

The Persistence of Memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 413-433
Author(s):  
Ron Rodman
Keyword(s):  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Television Advertising ◽  
First Century ◽  
Musical Structure ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
State Farm ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Good Neighbor ◽  
American Popular Song

Though out of vogue in the twenty-first century, the jingle was a mainstay of radio and television advertising in the late twentieth century. What made it so popular was its affinity with popular music with which it was contemporaneous. This chapter draws upon linear diagram analysis to highlight the structural similarities of commercial jingles with American popular songs. Citing works on form in American popular song by Allen Forte and John Covach, and the “beginning-middle-ending” paradigms of William Caplin and Kofi Agawu, the chapter demonstrates how the musical structure of jingles such as “See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet,” “Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm Is There,” and others resemble American popular songs of their time. The success of these jingles lies not only in their structural similarity with these popular songs but also in the audience’s ability to reimagine the complete structure of the tunes and to draw upon a collective cultural memory of intertextuality—what Papson calls “alreadyness”—to these advertising texts.

Density waves in disk galaxies

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 313-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Lin ◽  
F. H. Shu
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Spiral Structure ◽  
Stellar System ◽  
Collective Modes ◽  
Disk Galaxies ◽  
Spiral Pattern ◽  
Density Waves ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Detailed Mathematical Analysis

Density waves in the nature of those proposed by B. Lindblad are described by detailed mathematical analysis of collective modes in a disk-like stellar system. The treatment is centered around a hypothesis of quasi-stationary spiral structure. We examine (a) the mechanism for the maintenance of this spiral pattern, and (b) its consequences on the observable features of the galaxy.

Computing cell tractions from particle displacements on silicone rubber substrata

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 162-163
Author(s):  
Tim Oliver ◽  
Akira Ishihara ◽  
Ken Jacobsen ◽  
Micah Dembo
Keyword(s):  
Plane Stress ◽  
Linear Elasticity ◽  
Silicone Rubber ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Elastic Recovery ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Cell Traction Forces ◽  
Latex Beads ◽  
Cell Traction ◽  
Better Than

In order to better understand the distribution of cell traction forces generated by rapidly locomoting cells, we have applied a mathematical analysis to our modified silicone rubber traction assay, based on the plane stress Green’s function of linear elasticity. To achieve this, we made crosslinked silicone rubber films into which we incorporated many more latex beads than previously possible (Figs. 1 and 6), using a modified airbrush. These films could be deformed by fish keratocytes, were virtually drift-free, and showed better than a 90% elastic recovery to micromanipulation (data not shown). Video images of cells locomoting on these films were recorded. From a pair of images representing the undisturbed and stressed states of the film, we recorded the cell’s outline and the associated displacements of bead centroids using Image-1 (Fig. 1). Next, using our own software, a mesh of quadrilaterals was plotted (Fig. 2) to represent the cell outline and to superimpose on the outline a traction density distribution. The net displacement of each bead in the film was calculated from centroid data and displayed with the mesh outline (Fig. 3).

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