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The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in vocal music
2001
The processing of a target chord depends on the previous musical context in which it has appeared. This harmonic priming effect occurs for fine syntactic-like changes in context and is observed irrespective of the extent of participants' musical expertise (Bigand & Pineau, Perception and Psychophysics, 59 (1997) 1098). The present study investigates how the harmonic context influences the processing of phonemes in vocal music. Eight-chord sequences were presented to participants. The four notes of each chord were played with synthetic phonemes and participants were required to quickly decide whether the last chord (the target) was sung on a syllable containing the phoneme /i/ or /u/. The mu…
Cantus: Construction and evaluation of a software solution for real-time vocal music training and musical intonation assessment
2016
The development of the ability to sing or play in tune is one of the most critical tasks in music training. In music education, melodic patterns are usually learned by imitative processes (modelling). Once modelled, pitch sounds are then associ-ated to a representation according to a syllabic system such as the Guidonian system - or an arbitrary single syllable - or western graphic notation system symbols. From a didactic standpoint, few advances have been made in this area besides the use of audio-supported guides and existing software, which use a microphone to analyse the input and estimate the pitch or fundamental frequency of the given tone. However, these programmes lack the necessary…
Il "Candide" da Voltaire e Bernstein
2015
Il saggio ricostruisce la genesi del "Candide" di Leonard Bernstein, e la storia delle sue tante stesure e riprese: dal primo progetto teatrale del 1953-54 sino cosiddetta "Scottish Opera Version, curata da John Mauceri, del 1988. Il percorso drammaturgico dello spettacolo viene messo a confronto con le narrazioni del romanzo di Voltaire e nella seconda parte del saggio vengono affrontati anche gli aspetti musicali e compositivi dell'opera.
Canzoni in concorso nella Palermo di fine secolo
2015
L'articolo si occupa del concorso "per la canzone siciliana" bandito nel 1891 a Palermo da Tina Withaker Scalia con la collaborazione di Giorgio Miclei. Nella prima parte viene presentato un sintetico bilancio dei precedenti non siciliani del concorso nell'Italia post-unitaria, e nella seconda vengono analizzate in dettaglio le due canzoni vincitrici.
Modelling and prediction of perceptual segmentation
2017
While listening to music, we somehow make sense of a multiplicity of auditory events; for example, in popular music we are often able to recognize whether the current section is a verse or a chorus, and to identify the boundaries between these segments. This organization occurs at multiple levels, since we can discern motifs, phrases, sections and other groupings. In this work, we understand segment boundaries as instants of significant change. Several studies on music perception and cognition have strived to understand what types of changes are associated with perceptual structure. However, effects of musical training, possible differences between real-time and non real-time segmentation, and…
On listening to atonal variants of two Piano Sonatas by Beethoven
2009
International audience; We investigated the contribution of tonal relationships to the perception of musical ideas and to the feelings of "arousal." Two excerpts of piano sonatas by Beethoven and two atonal variants were used as experimental stimuli. This manipulation destroyed the tonal relationships but preserved both the local and global temporal organization (rhythm and formal). Listeners were asked to indicate the onset of musical ideas, to estimate the arousing properties of the music in a continuous response task, and to rate the similarity of the pieces. A drastic change in the pitch structure strongly affected judgments of similarity. However, it had no effect on the segmentation o…
Topo-analyse de la musique mixte
2017
National audience; The purpose of this article is to pursue a semiotic approach to mixed music already outlined in some writings. After having developed a theoretical model capable of synthesizing the possible concert apparatus and defining the functions of the various protagonists, this article attempts, on the one hand, to establish a typology of the main relational strategies between instrumental and electronics observed in the repertoire and, on the other hand, to develop an analysis method using the topics. Relational strategies are approached with the concept of topic, defined as an imaginary place to articulate potential contents and unify them within an identifiable theme. In the re…
Prêt-à-porter ou coupe sur mesure ? Liberté et contraintes de la temporalité dans l’interprétation de la Sequenza III de Berio
2017
National audience; Sequenza III (1965-1966) for Female Voice by Luciano Berio is one of the leading works in the solo vocal repertoire after 1945. The work is the culmination of a fruitful on-going collaboration with Cathy Berberian, interrupted by the singer’s death in 1983. Perfectly knowing the singer’s vocal possibilities, Sequenza III was “not only written for Cathy, but about Cathy” as the composer asserts. It is then legitimate to ask the question of the fate of the work, since Sequenza III was by no means reserved, in Berio’s mind, to a dedicated performer. In order to answer this question, this article analyzes five recorded performances (Berberian, 1967 and 1970; Castellani, 1998,…
Temporalité et texture dans "Eight Lines" de Steve Reich : de la perception locale à la forme expérientielle
2017
Consacré à la nouvelle question d’agrégation 2018 « Les temps de la musique », ce numéro illustre la diversité des problématiques auxquelles seront confrontés les candidats au concours. Il aborde à la fois le temps de la création et celui de l’interprétation, les temporalités des musiques « savantes » et celles des musiques « populaires », réunissant des textes synthétiques et des analyses d’oeuvres, des approches historiques, ethnomusicologiques et esthétiques. ISBN 9782368570432; National audience
La filiation Varèse - Zappa en question
2017
National audience