Hasil untuk "Literature on music"

Stefanos G. Georgiou, Apostolos D. Galatos

Research in human medicine has provided sufficient evidence to support music’s incorporation into the perioperative period, suggesting it as a significant non-pharmacological adjunct in terms of a multimodal approach, which should be available to all surgical patients. The literature regarding music’s effect on the perioperative period of dogs and cats is far more limited compared to that of humans, albeit quite promising. In order to design an individualized and potentially successful music intervention in dogs and cats, a stepwise approach is proposed taking into consideration the recommended components, such as music type (genre, tempo, pitch, instrumentation), volume, method of music delivery, duration and timing of the music intervention, frequency of music presentation and the effect of previous music experience. This review aims to provide directions to standardize perioperative music intervention protocols in dogs and cats, incorporate them into clinical practice and propose future perspectives, based on the existing literature evidence both in humans and companion animals.

Lukas Nemestothy, Lukas Nemestothy, Vita V. Kogan et al.

This review traces the historical, cultural, psychological, and neuroscientific dimensions of phonaesthetics—the study of beauty in language sound. Once considered too subjective or ideologically charged for serious inquiry, the aesthetics of language is now re-emerging as a vibrant interdisciplinary field that draws on linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, aesthetics, and literary studies. This review offers a structured synthesis of current debates, theories, and empirical findings, while also outlining methodological innovations, including bibliometric mapping. Contemporary research demonstrates that sound is not merely a transparent medium for meaning but an aesthetic phenomenon in its own right, shaping how language is learned, remembered, and valued. Advances in cognitive science, neuroaesthetics and psycholinguistics have given new empirical grounding to questions once considered marginal. From David Crystal’s early discussions to modern work on sound symbolism, memory, and brand naming, evidence consistently points to the interplay between inherent linguistic values and culturally imposed norms. While aesthetic preferences differ across speakers and contexts, recurring patterns—such as the appeal of sonorous or rhythmic structures—suggest shared cognitive and emotional mechanisms. At the same time, language ideologies and the familiarity effect continue to modulate responses, underscoring the multifaceted reasons for aesthetic judgment. Reviving phonaesthetics therefore means more than cataloguing pleasant sounds. It invites renewed inquiry into why sound matters, how it contributes to identity, shapes evaluations of linguistic varieties, and allows speech to be experienced as art. In this light, language deserves recognition alongside music, painting, and literature as a legitimate subject of aesthetic appreciation. This review aims to highlight that speech sound can elicit emotion as powerfully as melody or color. The “phoenix” of phonaesthetics thus rises again—not merely as a study of linguistic beauty, but as a call to reimagine language as one of the arts.

Jodie Bloska, Sarah Crabtree, Nina Wollersberger et al.

Abstract Background This study was initiated and co-designed by a Participant and Public Involvement (PPI) group attached to HOMESIDE, a randomized controlled trial that investigated music and reading interventions for people living with dementia and their family caregivers across five countries: Australia, Germany, Norway, Poland, and the UK. The aim was to capture experiences of PPI across the five countries, explore the benefits and challenges of PPI in dementia research, and identify contributions made to the study. Methods We surveyed PPI members and academic researchers who collaborated on the HOMESIDE study. The survey was co-designed through consultation with PPI members and academics, alongside a small scoping literature review. Survey questions covered four topics: (1) expectations for PPI, (2) perceived contributions of PPI to the research study, (3) benefits and challenges of PPI, and (4) recommendations for future PPI in dementia research. Results There were 23 responses, representing 50% of the PPI members (n = 16) and 29% of academics (n = 7). PPI was found to be beneficial to the research and individuals involved. Contributions to the research included supporting recruitment and publicity, advising on the design of participant-facing materials, guiding the design and delivery of the interventions, and identifying cultural differences affecting research delivery. PPI members benefited from building connections, sharing experiences and receiving support, learning about dementia and research, and gaining new unexpected experiences. Academics learned about the realities of living with dementia, which they felt informed and grounded their work. Several challenges were identified, including the need for clear expectations and objectives, inconsistency of PPI members across research stages, limitations of meeting online versus in-person, scheduling difficulties, and language barriers. Conclusions This study identifies important considerations for implementing PPI within dementia studies and international healthcare research more broadly. Our findings guided the development of five recommendations: (1) involve PPI members as early as possible and throughout the research process; (2) create a space for constructive criticism and feedback; (3) have clear tasks, roles, and expectations for PPI members; (4) involve PPI members with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds; and (5) embed infrastructure and planning to support PPI.

Paweł Gancarczyk

‘It never seems to stop’ Six high school students’ experiences of information overload Mira Grønning Aadland, Jannica Heinström Exploring scholarly perceptions of preprint servers Shir Aviv-Reuven, Jenny Bronstein, Ariel Rosenfeld Enhancing conceptualisations of information behaviour contexts through insights from research on e-dictionaries and e-lexicography Theo JD Bothma, Ina Fourie Trends in data literacy, 2018-2023: a review of the literature Leanne Bowler, Charlie Shaw Analysis of collaborative innovation behaviour and its influencing factors in scientific research crowdsourcing platforms: based on the fsQCA method Jiajun Cao, Yuefen Wang, Xin Xie, Yuanzhi Lv, Peng Chen Information relations for social change: exploring the information behaviour of academics undertaking impact work Joann Cattlin, Lisa M. Given Collaborating, collecting and representing: queer independent archives and their connections with GLAM institutions in Aotearoa/New Zealand Alison S. Day Health information post-encountering behaviours on social media platforms Khalid U Fallatah, Morgan A Harvey, Sophie Rutter Information seeking behaviour in music conductors’ repertoire selection Christina Firkins, Michael Barrett-Berg, Ina Fourie Models and theories that can guide grief and bereavement information interventions: an information behaviour lens Ina Fourie Case study on a scientific oral history project using information practice analysis Deborah A. Garwood The reading practices of people with neuropsychiatric disabilities: a review of library and information science literature Katarina Hagberg, Karin Lundin, Anna Lundh, Åse Hedemark Representational exchange and edgework: towards theorising the coping with fragmentary information Isto Huvila Digital health applications and health literacy: an explorative analysis Aylin Imeri, Sabrina Schorr, Sebastian Merkel To share or not to share? Image data sharing in the social sciences and humanities Elina Late, Mette Skov, Sanna Kumpulainen Analysing humanities scholars’ data seeking behaviour patterns using Ellis' model Wenqi Li, Pengyi Zhang, Jun Wang Can ChatGPT provide health information as physicians do? Preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study of online medical consultation Siqi Luo, Hongyi Qin, Hanlin Li, Cui Huang Mapping the road ahead: understanding social factors that shape vehicle residents’ information grounds Kaitlin E. Montague Situating complexity: information behaviour in the contact zone Hye Lim Joy Nam An information behaviour exploration of personal and family information and curation of our life histories Bhuva Narayan, Annemarie Zijlema, Vanessa Reyes, Mary Anne Kennan Layers upon layers: data sharing & reuse challenges in archaeological contexts Michael Olsson, Olle Sköld, Lisa Andersson Development in the adoption of a national digital healthcare system and experience at taking new technology in use – changes from 2019 to 2022 Ágústa Pálsdóttir Ubiquitous but invisible – public librarians’ self-imposed professional information practices as articulation work Ola Pilerot, Jenny Lindberg Transdisciplinarity: an imperative for information behaviour research Sarah Polkinghorne, Paul Bowell, Lisa M. Given God’s intermediaries: a study into chaplains’ information behaviour Kieran Robson, Ian Ruthven, Perla Innocenti COVID-19 information spaces, boundaries, and information sharing: an interview study Togzhan Seilkhanova, Theodore Dreyfus Ledford, Jodi Schneider Information from sound: exploring sounds and listening in information practices research Owen Stewart-Robertson Information practices in multi-professional work in urban planning Anna Suorsa, Anna-Maija Multas, Emilia Rönkkö, Eevi Juuti, Anelma Lammi, Heidi Enwald Searching for people in the workplace: aims, behaviour, and challenges Tanja Svarre, Marianne Lykke, Ann Bygholm Surfacing the ‘silent foundation’: which information behaviour theories are relevant to public library reference service? Amy VanScoy, Africa S. Hands, Katarina Švab, Tanja Merčun Using progress logs to research the information behaviour of higher education students in prison Isabel Virgo Savolainen’s everyday information practices: concept and development Xinyue Wang Digital stress among Chinese adolescents: a focus group study Zhang Wen, Chen Yifan, Cao Gaohui Creating, using, and sharing embodied information in the ultrarunning community on Instagram Laura Williams, Andrew Cox, Andrea Jimenez Isolated, individualised, and immobilised: information behaviour in the context of academic casualisation Rebekah Willson, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Heidi Julien, Lisa M. Given Contextual information needs of people in life transitions struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder Dawei Wu, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Yan Zhang, Shijie Song Engaging with AI painting: exploring motivations and challenges in laypeople's creative information practices Xiaoyu Zhang, Sicheng Zhu, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Mingxia Jia, Qinghua Zhu Examining information needs of public data service users: a study based on the ‘Message Board for Leaders of People’s Daily in China’ Xiaoyue Zhang, Jinya Liu, Xinyue Wang, Wanteng Ma, Pu Yan

Joshua Ofoeda, Richard Boateng, John Effah

Organisations deploy digital platforms to maximise value and transform their businesses. The success of most platforms is attributed to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), the protocols enabling different software to communicate with each other. However, previous research on APIs has predominantly focused on the technical dimensions, such as design, and unintentionally neglected other social areas, such as organisational outcomes. This study seeks to advance organisational API research by adopting an agility perspective to explore the agility outcomes after API integration. Through rich qualitative data from a music digital firm, the findings revealed four primary agility outcomes: customer agility in the form of swift customer feedback, operational agility in the form of improved business process and delay reduction, partner agility in the form of embracing flexibility in processes and structures and expanding their ecosystem and decision agility in the form of fast decision making. A model showing the interplay and interdependencies of the agility outcomes was developed and provided depth and clarity to the findings. This study extends the literature by establishing how API integration influences organisational agility under conditions such as possessing capabilities and managing tensions during the integration process.

Ana Mijić, Michael Parzer

In this article, we use fiction as a lens to study processes of refugees’ arriving in Austria. For that purpose, we draw on findings from our transdisciplinary and participatory project “The Art of Arriving—Reframing ‘Refugee Integration’” in which we have created a real-world laboratory and examined if and how the meaning-making processes involved in creating and interpreting art can foster reframing “refugee integration” concepts and provide alternative views on the arrival of refugees beyond an assimilationist lens. By inviting and accompanying artists from different cultural realms (literature, music, and photography) and with different refugee experiences during the process of jointly creating an artwork as well as by getting access to the recipients’ interpretations of these artworks, we gained insights into the various ways that artistic practices unveil and contest common hegemonic expectations that shape the processes of refugees’ (and other migrants’) arriving. Our analysis of the short story “Außen vor” (“Being [left] out”) written by Hamed Abboud, Anna Baar, and Mascha Dabić—of its creation and reception process—contributes to the ongoing debates on how refugees’ artistic practices can serve as means of cultural and social transformation.

Candelieri Irene

During his prolific career, the German Jewish scientist Franz Boas (Minden, 1858 - New York, 1942) recognized as the founding father of American Cultural Anthropology – maintained assiduous contacts with the European scientific community, in a privileged way with that of the German area. The contribution addresses the Boasian correspondence with the two directors of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the philosopher and psychologist Carl Stumpf, and the ethnomusicolo-gist Erich Moritz von Hornbostel. All three were united by a common scientific experimental training and a solid musical education, typical of their Bildungsbuürgertum. With them, Boas consistently shared his fieldwork findings regarding music, sound, and language among the Indians of British Columbia: indeed, their epistolary exchanges intertwine epistemological reflections centered on the study of «exotische Musik» in context with technical problems, derived from the use of phonographic recordings and the relative shipments of wax cylinders by Boas to the Phonographic Archive. So far, the critical literature has not paid particular attention to their correspondence, that offer instead a privileged look in observing the birth of Ethnomusicology, at the time still defined as comparative Musicology (vergleichende Musikwissenschaft). Starting from a biographical contextualization and following the micro-history of the scientific and personal relationship of these scientists, the contribution aims to explore the hypothesis that the emerging Ethnomusicology significantly contributed to the definition of Cultural Anthropology as a discipline. In his painstaking research devoted to the Native Indian sounds and languages, Boas observed indeed what happens if a mind is exposed to a new sound, musical or linguistic context; he had therefore to rigorously deal with the phenomena of mishearing, sound-blindness and biasing filter related to the perception of «new sounds». Thanks to his fieldwork, Boas would endorse a relativistic and “in context” approach to perception and mental representations of sounds, fostering his eventual lifelong, hectic concern about a broaden antiracist theory of human mental functions.

Maider Valdés

La imagen de la mujer y la naturaleza en la música vasca se enfoca en la visión ecocrítica del pueblo vasco presente en su cultura. En este caso, se analizarán para ello dos canciones vascas de la época contemporánea. Este trabajo ha surgido de una gran investigación, tanto por el aspecto ecocrítico como por el cultural. El análisis surge con intención de cubrir ese “vacío” que parece existir en la literatura europea con respecto a la visión ecocrítica de sus sociedades, utilizando la cultura vasca como base. “La imagen de la mujer y la naturaleza en la música vasca” lana euskal herriaren ikuspegi ekokritikoan oinarritzen da, bere kulturan presente dagoena. Kasu honetan, garai hartako bi euskal abesti aztertuko dira horretarako. Lan hori ikerketa handi batetik sortu da, bai alderdi ekokritikoan bai kulturalean oinarrituta. Bere gizarteen ikuspegi ekokritikoari dagokionez, Europako literaturan dagoen “huts” hori betetzeko sortu da azterketa, euskal kultura oinarri gisa erabilita. The image of women and nature in Basque music focuses on the ecocritical view of the Basque people present in their culture. In this case, two Basque songs from the contemporary era will be analysed for this purpose. This work has arisen from a large research project, both for the ecocritical and cultural aspects. The analysis arises with the intention of covering that "vacuum" which seems to exist in European literature with regard to the ecocritical view of its societies, using Basque culture as a basis.

Ryan Lynus Revoredo Chocano

Este artículo se inicia con una breve revisión de aportes de la investigación musicológica en estructuras perceptivas en Latinoamérica. En 1941 Carlos Vega publica una propuesta de estudio de la música popular, que más tarde con las aportaciones de Humberto Sagredo en 1988, formarán una perspectiva de estudio alternativa respecto a las posiciones más difundidas del estudio de estructuras perceptivas. En Revoredo (2006) se revisa el planteamiento de Sagredo para definir los procedimientos de análisis y aplicarlos a muchos más ejemplos de música popular, académica y sistemas musicales. En esta teoría aparecen dos conceptos principales: “interés” referido a la optimización estructural y “tiempo perceptivo” referido a la inducción de articulaciones formales. Este artículo enfoca dichos conceptos a una variedad de casos de análisis de música popular latinoamericana que incluyen examinar hits en música comercial, rasgueos regionales, ritmos y patrones de percusión, melodías, armonías y formas de temas populares. Estos conceptos estructurales también se han aplicado desde el 2006 en la percepción acústica mediante técnicas de creatividad musical para colectivos de improvisación coordinada, quienes utilizaban las influencias urbana y tradicional de la música popular para generar nuevas canciones. Finalmente se discute que esta línea de investigación puede aportar conocimiento sobre la experiencia de la música popular latinoamericana.

Lei Wang, Na Jiang

Artificial intelligence (AI) era challenges the use and functions of emotion in college students and the students’ college life is often experienced as an emotional rollercoaster, negative and positive emotion can affect the emotional outcomes, but we know very little about how students can ride it most effectively to increase their creativity. We introduce frustration tolerance as a mediator and emotion regulation as a moderator to investigate the mechanism of creativity improvement under negative emotion. Drawing on a sample of 283 students from professional music colleges or music major in normal universities, we find that negative emotion are generally associated with a lower creativity, while frustration tolerance can mediate the relationship between negative emotion and creativity, but these effects depend on the emotion regulation. Cognitive reappraisal exerts a negative effect on the relationship between negative emotion and creativity, while expressive suppression has the opposite effect. Our study contributes to the literatures on student’s emotions and creativity in music education and to the emotion regulation literature.

Anne Valeska Lopes da Costa, Giann Mendes Ribeiro

This article concerns an excerpt from a reorganized and expanded master’s research study that aims to present a systematic literature review on the subject of music education graduates in Brazil until 2019. The search was carried out in major journals specific to music education, annals of events in music education, the Brazilian Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), in addition to complementary searches on Google Scholar. The methodology followed was a systematic literature review (COSTA; ZOLTWSKI, 2014). It is concluded that the most emerging themes in the current Brazilian research scenario on graduates in music education were formation/training, performance, and professional insertion. This study may contribute as a basis for further research on the subject and complement gaps in the literature. In view of this, this research can contribute as a basis for studies on the aforementioned topic, as well as to aid research carried out by other scholars.

Daryl Jamieson

Utamakura is a traditional Japanese technique of recognizing, interpreting, and utilizing the web of intertextual meanings which have accrued around particular place names over centuries of poetic practice. In general, these utamakura places were originally (in the 7th-9th centuries) associated with Shintō gods (kami), though in later periods the web of meanings in most cases came to include (and often became dominated by) secular rather than spiritual associations. Japanese poet Takahashi Mutsuo, who has published both poetic and theoretical works on the subject of utamakura, seeks to recover the original spiritual power of utamakura place names. He has also expanded the concept to include places of mythic spiritual importance outside of Japan, mostly in the Greco-Roman world. Taking inspiration from Takahashi's revivification of this mediaeval poetic device, I am currently in the midst of a three-year project to write a series of (at this point seven) multimedia chamber music pieces called the utamakura series, pieces inspired alternately by traditional Japanese locations and locations in Northern Europe. My 2018 piece utamakura 2: Arnardalar for violin, piano, and fixed audiovisual media is an exploration of the Icelandic valley of Arnardulr in the Westfjords, the setting of a key early scene in the Fóstbræðra saga. My work draws on both the saga's descriptions of the place and the current place as it is today, highlighting the flux of time and exploring the power of art to infuse itself into – and change perceptions of – physical locations. In this paper, I will explain the conceptual processes involved in writing the piece, with an emphasis on the intercultural aesthetic of my work and how Japanese philosophy of art and religion can offer a creative new perspective on the Scandinavian lands which are the settings of the North's oldest literature.

A. Raglio, D. Bellandi, Marta Gianotti et al.

BACKGROUND Literature shows that music can reduce stress conditions. This pilot study investigated the effects of music listening on work-related stress and well-being in healthcare professionals. METHOD A total of 45 subjects were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: No Music, Individualized Music and Melomics-Health Listening. Music groups experienced a daily 30-min-playlist listening for 3 weeks at home. The Maugeri Stress Index-Revised (MASI-R) and the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWBI) were administered at baseline, after 3 weeks and after 7 weeks (follow-up). Longitudinal data were analyzed by means of a nested ANOVA model, testing the main effects of time and treatment and the interaction between them. RESULTS MASI-R scores showed a positive trend in music groups and a worsening in the control group. Only the interaction time/treatment emerged as supporting a trend toward statistical significance (P = 0.07). PGWBI showed a stability in music groups and a clear decline in controls, without significant effects. CONCLUSIONS Results from the study support the need for a larger clinical trial: it is suggested that daily music listening could be implemented to reduce work-related stress and that the effects may be related, not only to individual musical preferences and familiarity, but also to specific music structures and parameters.

Lori F Gooding, Diane G. Langston

Music therapy treatment is increasingly being used to promote health, enhance quality of life, and improve functioning in military personnel, but evidence on the use of music interventions with military service members is still emerging. The purpose of this scoping review was to synthesize the available literature regarding music therapy treatment with military personnel by identifying the types of information available, key characteristics, and gaps in the knowledge base. The review was completed using the methodological framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley. A total of 27 publications met the criteria for review. The results included anecdotal reports, white papers/ briefs, case studies, historical reviews, clinical program descriptions, and research studies. Both active duty and veteran service members were represented in the literature, and post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury were the most commonly listed conditions among those served. Music therapy services were offered in both group and individual formats, and drumming was the most common music intervention cited. Most publications accurately represented music therapy, and the historical reviews highlighted the connection between the development of the field of music therapy and the use of music with military personnel. Several gaps were identified, including a lack of specificity in reporting, low levels of evidence, and limited inclusion of women service members.

Peter Miksza, P. Evans, G. McPherson

For many music students, the transition to university-level studies can be a time characterized by high levels of stress as they adjust to academic standards and the challenges of demanding performance assessments. Given this context, this study investigated the impact of stress on students’ well-being, specifically the facet of subjective vitality, defined in the literature as a feeling of energy and aliveness. Our focus was to explore whether certain psychosocial traits would moderate the negative effects of stress on vitality. Working from an empirically derived conceptual model, our central hypotheses were: (a) that stress and self-oriented perfectionism would be negatively related to vitality, whereas adaptability and quality of peer relationships would be positively related to vitality; and (b) that the relationship between stress and vitality would be moderated by students’ self-oriented perfectionism, adaptability, and quality of peer relationships. Participants were 293 undergraduate and graduate music majors from university schools of music and conservatoires in the United States and Australia. Findings revealed that stress was a significant negative predictor of vitality, but self-oriented perfectionism was not. In addition, both adaptability and quality of peer relationships were significant positive predictors of vitality. However, neither self-oriented perfectionism, adaptability, nor quality of peer relationships moderated the effects of stress on vitality. These findings are discussed with regard to practical recommendations for helping students deal with the stressors in their environments and potential theoretical avenues to explore through future research.

Pim Oomens, Victor X. Fu, G. Kleinrensink et al.

IntroductionBeneficial effects of music have been described on several cognitive domains, task performance, stress, anxiety and pain. Greater surgical skill is a factor that has been associated with improved patient outcome. The aim of this systematic review is to assess the effect of music on surgical performance.MethodsAn exhaustive literature search was performed. The following databases were searched: Embase, Medline Ovid, Web of Science, Cochrane CENTAL, PsycINFO Ovid, CINAHL EBSCOhost, ERIC EBSCOhost and Google Scholar. All prospective studies that assessed the effect of a music intervention compared to either another auditory condition or silence on surgical performance were included in a qualitative synthesis. The study was registered in the PROSPERO-database (CRD42018092021).ResultsThe literature search identified 3492 articles of which 9 studies (212 participants) were included. Beneficial effects of music were reported on time to task completion, instrument handling, quality of surgical task performance and general surgical performance. Furthermore, a beneficial effect of music on muscle activation was observed.ConclusionAlthough beneficial effects of music on surgical performance have been observed, there is insufficient evidence to definitively conclude that music has a beneficial effect on surgical performance in the simulated setting. Future studies should be conducted using greater numbers of participants focusing on a more limited range of tasks, as well as validation in the live operating environment.

J. Groarke, M. Hogan

Affect regulation is generally considered the most important function of music listening (FML). Yet, models of wellbeing also highlight engagement, relationships, meaning, achievement, and other adaptive functions that music may facilitate. However, there is currently no consensus as to how these adaptive FML co-function within an enhancement system that supports wellbeing. The current study used the collective intelligence methodology, Interactive Management (IM) to address this gap in the literature. Four IM sessions were conducted, two with younger adults (N = 24) and two with older adults (N = 19). Participants responded to the stimulus question “why do you listen to music?” Each participant then voted for five FML they believed were most significant for enhancing wellbeing. The eight highest ranked functions were entered into Interpretive Structural Modelling software, and relations between pairs of FML were discussed. Four structural models were generated demonstrating potential interdependencies in FML in the context of wellbeing enhancement. Age differences emerged in the FML considered adaptive: younger adults emphasized affect regulation and social connection, whereas older adults emphasized more eudaimonic functions of music (e.g., Transcendence and personal growth). The influence of FML are discussed in reference to key wellbeing and developmental theories.

R. L. Aguiar, Yandre M. G. Costa, C. N. Silla

In this work we address the automatic music genre classification as a pattern recognition task. The content of the music pieces were handled in the visual domain, using spectrograms created from the audio signal. This kind of image has been successfully used in this task since 2011 by extracting handcrafted features based on texture, since it is the main visual attribute found in spectrograms. In this work, the patterns were described by representation learning obtained with the use of convolutional neural network (CNN). CNN is a deep learning architecture and it has been widely used in the pattern recognition literature. Overfitting is a recurrent problem when a classification task is addressed by using CNN, it may occur due to the lack of training samples and/or due to the high dimensionality of the space. To increase the generalization capability we propose to explore data augmentation techniques. In this work, we have carefully selected strategies of data augmentation that are suitable for this kind of application, which are: adding noise, pitch shifting, loudness variation and time stretching. Experiments were conducted on the Latin Music Database (LMD), and the best obtained accuracy overcame the state of the art considering approaches based only in CNN.

Timothy Onosahwo Iyendo