Language, Music, and Computing: First International Workshop, LMAC 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 20-22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science (561))

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2015. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on music and language in education; corpus studies of language and music; problems of notation; and linguistic studies of music. Preface 6 Organization 9 Contents 10 General Questions 12 Analogies and Parallels in the Structure of Music and Verbal Languages 13 Abstract 13 1 Introduction 13 2 Parallels in Terminology 14 3 Parallels in Morphology 17 4 Parallels in Logic of Subordination 18 5 Conclusion 20 References 20 In Search of Meaning: Study on Relation of Language and Music in Works of Russian Scientists 21 Abstract 21 1 Introduction 21 2 Studies of Meaning in Russian Musicology 22 3 In Search of Meaning 24 3.1 Objectives and Methodology 24 3.2 Data 26 3.3 Results and Discussion 27 4 Conclusion 31 References 32 Music and Language in Education 34 Language, Music, Fire, and Chess: Remarks on Music Evolution and Acquisition 35 Abstract 35 1 Introduction 35 2 Patel's Basic Claim 36 3 Is Music Perception a Mental Module? Fodor's 1973 Diagnostics Applied 37 3.1 Rapidity and Automaticity 37 3.2 Informational Encapsulation 37 3.3 Domain-Specificity 38 3.4 Neural Specificity 38 3.5 Existence of Universals 40 4 Is Music Perception a Biological System? Patel's 2008 Diagnostics Revisited 40 4.1 Biological Cost of Failure 40 4.2 Babbling and Specialized Anatomy 41 4.3 Predisposition and Precocious Learning 42 4.4 Critical Period 44 4.5 Existence of Alternate Modalities 45 4.6 Summary 46 5 A Plausible Story of Music Evolution 47 5.1 Mithen's HMMMMM 47 6 Conclusion: Thoughts on Creativity, Genius, and Technical Mastery 50 References 51 Constructive Interrelationship Between Structural Components in Early Music and Language Learning 53 Abstract 53 1 Introduction 53 2 Musical versus Lingual Components 55 2.1 Spatialization 55 2.2 Temporality 56 2.3 Tonality 57 2.4 Dynamics 58 3 Workshops 59 3.1 Musical Melody versus Lingual Intonation 59 3.2 Musical versus Lingual Dynamics 60 3.3 Breathing Technique 61 3.4 Concentration 62 3.5 Communication/Self-esteem 63 4 Conclusion 64 References 65 Inverting the Mozart Effect: Discovering What Composers Can Learn from Writing 67 Abstract 67 References 73 Corpus studies of Language and Music 75 Probabilistic Topic Modeling of the Russian Text Corpus on Musicology 76 Abstract 76 1 Introduction 76 2 Topic Modeling of Text Corpora 77 3 Probabilistic Topic Modeling Toolkit 78 4 The Russian Text Corpus on Musicology 78 5 Design of Experiments and Analysis of Results 79 6 Conclusion 81 7 Further Development of Research 82 References 82 Brazilian Portuguese Pronominal Verbs: How to Identify Them? 84 Abstract 84 1 Introduction 84 2 The Characterization of BPPV 86 3 Proposal for a Formal Representation of Pronominal Verbs Based on Functionalism 88 4 The BPPV and the WordNet.Br 90 5 Final Considerations 91 References 92 Some Observations on Everyday Singing Behaviour Based on Long-Term Audio Recordings 95 Abstract 95 1 Introduction 95 2 Data and Method 96 2.1 Research Data 96 2.2 Episodes of Everyday Life 97 2.3 Participants 98 2.4 Definitions 98 2.5 Limitations of Data and Method 99 3 Results 99 3.1 Singing Activity of Participants 99 3.2 Age Distribution of Singing Participants 101 3.3 Participants' Singing Behaviour 102 3.4 Types of Everyday Singing Activities 104 4 Conclusions 105 Acknowledgements 106 References 106 Problems of Notation 108 Shaping Tunes: Sharing Musical Information Across Cultural Boundaries 109 Abstract 109 1 Introduction 109 2 Two Cultures 110 3 Writing Music Down 112 4 Rethinking Notations 116 4.1 Swarasruti: An Audio-Visual Notation System for Indian Music 117 5 Conclusions 118 Acknowledgments 119 References 119 Further Reading 119 A Proposal for a New System of Reading and Writing Music for the Blind 121 Abstract 121 1 Introduction 121 1.1 Conventional Music Notation 122 1.2 The Braille System 122 1.3 Braille Musicography 123 2 Objectives and Justification 125 3 Proposal 125 3.1 Description of the System 125 3.2 Tests 128 4 Conclusion 129 Acknowledgements 129 References 130 Linguistic Studies of Music 131 Structural Interaction of Poetry and Music Components in Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff 132 Abstract 132 1 Introduction 132 2 Rachmaninoff's Songs (Romances) 133 3 Studies in Temporal Dynamics of Literary and Musical Texts 135 4 Research Methodology 136 5 Rachmaninoff's Song Length 137 6 Analysis of Pitch/Duration Dynamics in Rachmaninoff's Songs 138 7 Dynamic Interaction of Poetry and Musical Components 140 8 Conclusions 142 References 143 A Linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Early Music: Representation of the Hexachord System by X-Bar Method as an Excavation Tool 145 Abstract 145 1 The Problems, Background and Method 145 1.1 Traces of Word Segmentation and Phonologic Analogy 146 1.2 X-Bar Method 147 1.3 Archealogic Approach 151 2 Practical Aspects 152 2.1 External Phrases (Maximals) 153 2.2 Hexachordal Features as the Phonologic Analogy 154 2.3 Internal Phrases (Step and Interval Hierarchy) 156 2.4 Textural Structures and Segmentation Principles 159 3 Application of the Analytical Principles 162 3.1 Evaluation of the First Strophe 163 3.2 Evaluation of the Second Strophe 165 4 Conclusion 168 Acknowledgment 169 References 169 Songs in African Tonal Languages: Contrasting the Tonal System and the Melody 171 Abstract 171 1 Introduction 171 2 Methodology 172 2.1 Background and Discussion 172 2.2 Our Approach and Predictions 173 3 Guinean Kpelle 174 3.1 Tonal System 174 3.2 Data 174 3.3 Results 175 4 Guro 176 4.1 Tonal System 176 4.2 Data 176 4.3 Results 177 5 Conclusion 178 References 179 Author Index 181 Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Analogies and Parallels in the Structure of Music and Verbal Languages....Pages 3-10 In Search of Meaning: Study on Relation of Language and Music in Works of Russian Scientists....Pages 11-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Language, Music, Fire, and Chess: Remarks on Music Evolution and Acquisition....Pages 27-44 Constructive Interrelationship Between Structural Components in Early Music and Language Learning....Pages 45-58 Inverting the Mozart Effect: Discovering What Composers Can Learn from Writing....Pages 59-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Probabilistic Topic Modeling of the Russian Text Corpus on Musicology....Pages 69-76 Brazilian Portuguese Pronominal Verbs: How to Identify Them?....Pages 77-87 Some Observations on Everyday Singing Behaviour Based on Long-Term Audio Recordings....Pages 88-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Shaping Tunes: Sharing Musical Information Across Cultural Boundaries....Pages 103-114 A Proposal for a New System of Reading and Writing Music for the Blind....Pages 115-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Structural Interaction of Poetry and Music Components in Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff....Pages 127-139 A Linguistic Approach to the Syntax of Early Music: Representation of the Hexachord System by X-Bar Method as an Excavation Tool....Pages 140-165 Songs in African Tonal Languages: Contrasting the Tonal System and the Melody....Pages 166-175 Back Matter....Pages 177-177