Search results for "music analysi"
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«LE ARMONIE IMITTANO… LI STREPPITI DE’ VENTI… IL BELAR DELLE PECORE, IL NITRIR DE’ CAVALLI». NATURA E PASSIONI IN MONTEVERDI
2018
Monteverdi esprime la sua idea di imitazione della natura in una lettera del , e laapplica in diverse composizioni. In particolare è interessante analizzare il madrigal A un giro sol, dal quarto libro, in cui Monteverdi mette in musica due affetti opposti: la gioia e la luminosità della natura, e la sofferenza del poeta innamorato. Il primo viene espresso attraverso una musica puramente diatonica, il secondo tramite il cromatismo e le dissonanze. L’aproccio di Monteverdi mostra anche somiglianze con la pittura di paesaggio del suo tempo, come risulta evidente dalla comparazione con gli scritti di Giovanni Battista Agucchi. Monteverdi expresses his idea about the musical imitation of nat…
Strutture e trasformazioni condivise in matematica e musica: dalle categorie alla musicologia / Shared structures and transformations in mathematics …
2018
Le mutue influenze tra scienza e musica, iniziate con Pitagora, caratterizzano la ricerca musicale contemporanea, dalla teoria all'analisi della performance. La matematica può collegare campi diversi: in particolare, la teoria matematica delle categorie e, più in generale, il pensiero diagrammatico, costituiscono un potente strumento per analizzare i processi e le trasformazioni tra i processi. Una categoria è data da oggetti (punti) e trasformazioni tra di loro (frecce), che verificano la proprietà associativa e possiedono l’elemento neutro. Punti e frecce costituiscono diagrammi. Un'intera categoria può essere vista come un punto e le trasformazioni tra categorie possono essere rappresent…
Computational music analysis: from audio transcription to structural and stylistic analyses, everything is tightly intertwined
2012
The aim of this research is to conceive a comprehensive computational model for automated music analysis where a large range of analytical and cognitive rules are combined and the interdependencies observed. Besides the purely scientific interest of a cognitive modeling, this should facilitate the development of tools for computer-aided musicology and interfaces for augmented music listening and discovery. On the structural level, beyond a strict vision based on hierarchical segmentation, a concept of prolongational syntagmatic network is introduced, characterized by general rules and culture-dependent modal specifications. This model explains the syntagmatic role of ornamentation and allow…
Aspects of Emotion and Construction in the Music of Nightwish
2013
The compositions of NIGHTWISH are one of the most exciting examples of symphonic heavy metal. Tuomas Holopainen composes songs full of emotion and poetry and uses many strategies in order to accompany them musically. The songs of NIGHTWISH are a successful fusion of lyrical emotion and musical construction. How is NIGHTWISH’s popularity explained? What musical features characterize this band? Can the music of this group be analyzed from a music scientific point of view? The aim of this article is, on the one hand, to give sound answers to these questions and, on the other hand, to describe from a music analytical point of view the sound of this band in terms of how emotionality influences t…
Motivic Pattern Extraction in Music, and Application to the Study of Tunisian Modal Music
2007
A new methodology for automated extraction of repeated patterns in time-series data is presented, aimed in particular at the analysis of musical sequences. The basic principles consists in a search for closed patterns in a multi-dimensional parametric space. It is shown that this basic mechanism needs to be articulated with a periodic pattern discovery system, implying therefore a strict chronological scanning of the time-series data. Thanks to this modelling global pattern filtering may be avoided and rich and highly pertinent results can be obtained. The modelling has been integrated in a collaborative pro ject between ethnomusicology, cognitive sciences and computer science, aimed at the…
Characterisation of the Degree of Musical Non-Markovianity
2022
As an aid for musical analysis, in computational musicology mathematical andinformatics tools have been developed to characterise quantitatively some aspectsof musical compositions. A musical composition can be attributed by ear a certainamount of memory. These results are associated with repetitions and similarities ofthe patterns in musical scores. To higher variations, a lower amount of memory isperceived. However, the musical memory of a score has never been quantitativelydefined. Here we aim to give such a measure following an approach similar tothat used in physics to quantify the memory (non-Markovianity) of open quantumsystems. We apply this measure to some existing musical composit…
Mathematics and Musical Entropy
2020
Arts can provide intuitive examples to enhance the understanding of complex mathematical concepts. Also, mathematics can give precise answers to musical questions that can be raised during the analysis of works of art including musical scores. If musical parameters and mathematical objects are seen as belonging to categories, analysis becomes a dialogue and a mapping between them. This paper develops an idea of “open” musicology that exploits suggestions and contaminations with other research areas, first of all from mathematics and the mathematical formalism behind physics. The focus is on the concept of entropy joined with Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT), that can be extended to the def…
Content Aware Music Analysis with Multi-Dimensional Similarity Measure
2017
Music players and cloud solution for music recommendation and automatic playlist creation are becoming increasingly more popular, as they intent to overcome the issue of the difficulty for users to find fitting music, based on context, mood and impression. Much research on the topic has been conducted, which has recommended different approaches to overcome this problem. This paper suggests a system which uses a multi-dimensional vector space, based on the music’s key elements, as well as the mood expressed through them and the song lyrics, which allows for difference and similarity finding to automatically generate a contextually meaningful playlist. peerReviewed
Content Aware Playlist Generation with Multi-Dimensional Similarity Measure
2016
Écriture et perception des grandes formes en musique contemporaine et, en particulier, chez Roger Reynolds. « Le cristal et la flamme »
2003
This PhD addresses the issue of musical time and form in the second half of the XXth century with the joint perspective of composition and perception. The first chapter describes composer’s main conceptions of musical time, compositional strategies, functions and formal models, as well as the main musicological theories concerning musical form. The second chapter is devoted to the semiotic square of musical form (definition, typological and syntagmatic approach). The third chapter is dedicated to R. Reynolds’The Angel of Death, a work that allows us to compare writing and perception. The fourth chapter reviews the main studies and theories forged by psychology around this question, and pres…