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Exploring relationships between pianists’ body movements, their expressive intentions, and structural elements of the music
2011
Body movements during music performance have been found to be indicative of the performer’s musical intentionality, and contribute to an observer’s perception of expressive playing. This study investigates the effect of structural elements of the score, and the playing of different levels of expression on body movements during a piano performance. Pianists were required to play the same piece in four different performance conditions. Their movements were tracked by an optical motion capture system, and the comparisons that were made between specific parts of the body used, performance condition, and musical score locations were subsequently statistically examined. We found that the head an…
Practiced musical style shapes auditory skills
2012
Musicians' processing of sounds depends highly on instrument, performance practice, and level of expertise. Here, we measured the mismatch negativity (MMN), a preattentive brain response, to six types of musical feature change in musicians playing three distinct styles of music (classical, jazz, and rock/pop) and in nonmusicians using a novel, fast, and musical sounding multifeature MMN paradigm. We found MMN to all six deviants, showing that MMN paradigms can be adapted to resemble a musical context. Furthermore, we found that jazz musicians had larger MMN amplitude than all other experimental groups across all sound features, indicating greater overall sensitivity to auditory outliers. Fu…
Personality and music preferences: the influence of personality traits on preferences regarding musical elements.
2005
The purpose of this scientific study was to determine how personality traits, as classified by Cattell, influence preferences regarding musical elements. The subject group consisted of 145 students, male and female, chosen at random from different Polish universities. For the purpose of determining their personality traits the participants completed the 16PF Questionnaire (Cattell, Saunders, & Stice, 1957; Russel & Karol, 1993), in its Polish adaptation by Choynowski (Nowakowska, 1970). The participants' musical preferences were determined by their completing a Questionnaire of Musical Preferences (specifically created for the purposes of this research), in which respondents indicated their…
Amando Blanquer Ponsoda y su aportación al Concurso de Composición de Música Festera de Alcoy
2013
Este artículo pretende dar a conocer la aportación del compositor Amando Blanquer Ponsoda al Concurso de Composición de Música Festera de Alcoy, a través del análisis estilístico y musical del pasodoble Musical Apolo (1956) y de la marcha mora L¿embaixador (1959) que fueron primeros premios en este certamen. El análisis musical desarrollado se ha centrado principalmente en los elementos más importantes de la Música Festera como son: el ritmo, la melodía y la forma, sin descuidar otros como la armonía o la instrumentación, constituyendo los primeros el eje base del estudio analítico. Creemos que estas premisas resultan imprescindibles, si queremos llegar a obtener un grado de información sat…
La aportación de José María Ferrero Pastor a la música de Moros y Cristianos de Alcoy
2014
Este artículo pretende acercar al lector la aportación del compositor Jose María Ferrero Pastor (1926-1987) a la música de Moros y Cristianos de Alcoy. En él se analizarán desde el punto de vista estilístico y musical, las tres marchas moras que fueron primeros premios en el Concurso de Composición de Música Festera de Alcoy : El Berberisch (1961), Bon Capità (1971) y El Kabila (1980).
Orígenes de la música en las Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos de Alcoy
2013
En este artículo se quieren dar a conocer las primeras composiciones musicales que acompañaron desde sus orígenes las Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos de Alcoy. Además se estudia el origen de dichas composiciones que se interpretaban en la Fiesta desde el siglo XV y se realiza una breve aproximación a los conceptos de Música Festera y de Fiesta de Moros y Cristianos.
Adaptive tuning system and parameter estimation of a digitally controlled boost converter with STM32
2019
. This paper proposes a diagnostic system of a power electronic converter, based on a cheap STM32 Nucleo board, aiming to extract some relevant measurements which gives back important values of the converter's parameters behavior. Moreover the designed system is also exploited for implementing the converter's auto tuning in order to optimize its dynamic performance.
A Musical Pattern Discovery System Founded on a Modeling of Listening Strategies
2004
Music is a domain of expression that conveys a paramount degree of complexity. The musical surface, composed of a multitude of notes, results from the elaboration of numerous structures of different types and sizes. The composer constructs this structural complexity in a more or less explicit way. The listener, faced by such a complex phenomenon, is able to reconstruct only a limited part of it, mostly in a non-explicit way. One particular aim of music analysis is to objectify such complexity, thus offering to the listener a tool for enriching the appreciation of music (Lartillot and SaintJames, 2004). The trouble is, traditional musical analysis, although offering a valuable understanding …
Tempo Induction from Music Recordings Using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition Analysis
2011
Tempo and beat are among the most important features of Western music. Owing to the perceptual nature of tempo, its automatic analysis and extraction remains a difficult task for a large variety of music genres. Western music notation represents musical events using a hierarchical metrical structure distinguishing different time scales. This hierarchy is often modeled using three levels: the tatum, the tactus, and the measure. The tatum represents the shortest durational value in music that is not just an accidental phenomenon (Bilmes 1993). The tactus period is the most perceptually prominent period, and is the period at which most humans would tap their feet in time with the music (Lerdah…
Semantic models of musical mood: Comparison between crowd-sourced and curated editorial tags
2013
Social media services such as Last.fm provide crowd-sourced mood tags which are a rich but often noisy source of information. In contrast, editorial annotations from production music libraries are meant to be incisive in nature. We compare the efficiency of these two data sources in capturing semantic information on mood expressed by music. First, a semantic computing technique devised for mood-related tags in large datasets is applied to Last.fm and I Like Music (ILM) corpora separately (250,000 tracks each). The resulting semantic estimates are then correlated with listener ratings of arousal, valence and tension. High correlations (Spearman's rho) are found between the track positions in…