{"title":"Co-regulated timing in music ensembles: A Bayesian listener perspective","authors":"M. Leman","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1907419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1907419","url":null,"abstract":"Co-regulated timing in a music ensemble rests on the human capacity to coordinate actions in time. Here we explore the hypothesis that humans predict timing constancy in coordinated actions, in view of timing their own actions in line with the others. An algorithm (BListener) is presented that predicts timing constancy, using Bayesian inference about incoming timing data from the music ensemble. The algorithm is then applied to a timing analysis of real data, first, to a choir consisting of four singers, then, to a dataset containing performances of duet singers. Global features of timing constancy, such as fluctuation and stability, correlate with human subjective estimates of the music ensembles’ quality and associated experienced agency. In future work, BListener could serve as component in an artificial musician that plays along with human musicians in a music ensemble.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"121 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1907419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46188105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The entanglements which make instruments musical: Rediscovering sociality","authors":"S. Waters","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1899247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1899247","url":null,"abstract":"A thing becomes a musical instrument by virtue of its use in a social context, a use of which its initial intended design (if it had one) forms only a part: sometimes a very small part. Drawing on the notion of the ‘performance ecosystem’ this papersuggests that instrument designers/makers working with digital technologies might fruitfully attend further to the social contexts/constructs that characterise every level of musicking. It looks at the emergent, situated co-development of player, instrument and environment, suggesting that humans habitually use instruments to sense out, test and probe the possibilities of self-other relations in dynamic, mutually-engaging, and often playful and improvised behaviours.1 11 The entanglements (see e.g. Hodder, 2012) of the title are therefore the complex network of interrelations between objects, humans, environments, histories and ideas. Such co-dependencies may operate irrespective of physical or historical distance, and though pervasive may also be temporary or unpredictable.?>","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"133 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1899247","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45441055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring musical style in the anonymous and doubtfully attributed mass movements of the Coimbra manuscripts: a statistical and machine learning approach","authors":"María Elena Cuenca-Rodríguez, C. McKay","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2020.1870505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1870505","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the music from the sixteenth century Coimbra manuscripts using both traditional musicological approaches and techniques based on statistical analysis and machine learning. A particular focus is placed on gaining insights into the origins of the anonymous and doubtfully attributed mass movements, looked at through the lens of potential stylistic differences between the Iberian and Franco-Flemish musical traditions of the time. Another goal is to explore the origins of the Coimbra works in the historical, political and social context of the reception of foreign repertoires.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"199 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2020.1870505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45920482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of a continuous affect ratings task on listening time for unfamiliar art music","authors":"John R. Taylor, R. Dean","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2020.1867588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1867588","url":null,"abstract":"We aim to increase user engagement in unfamiliar music. We investigated listening duration for 100 unfamiliar art music items from the Australian Music Centre (AMC) library, presented under four different exposure conditions: a continuous affect response task, text/photographic information, text only, and no information. Participants could skip each item, and provided post-excerpt liking or familiarity ratings. Time-series analysis models of listening duration, liking, and familiarity, showed no increase in successive item liking or familiarity, although user liking and familiarity, positively predicted listening duration. The data confirm that directing listeners’ attention to discerning affect can enhance their engagement with unfamiliar music.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"242 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2020.1867588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49013503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vicentino versus Palestrina: A computational investigation of voice leading across changing vocal densities","authors":"Claire Arthur","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1877729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1877729","url":null,"abstract":"This paper details a corpus study examining Renaissance voice-leading practices. Palestrina’s masses are searched for progressions matching contrapuntal ‘rules’ taken from Vicentino (1555). Vicentino’s treatise provides a quasi-systematic organization of contrapuntal rules according to the minimum size of the vocal texture in which they ought to be set. Palestrina’s realizations of these progressions illustrate the exact size of vocal texture employed, enabling a direct comparison of theory and practice. The analysis reveals a general agreement, but suggests that Vicentino’s taxonomy is too strict. The results are examined in the context of uncovering guiding theoretical and perceptual principles.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"74 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1877729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42103323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of variability in raga motifs in performance contexts","authors":"K. Ganguli, P. Rao","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1879171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1879171","url":null,"abstract":"An interesting aspect of Indian art music is the prominent place of improvisation in performance. We explore the influence of the structural constraints of the genre on raga motifs in the course of improvisation. Audio recordings of North Indian vocal concerts are analysed to extract measurements of the defining parameters of the recurrent melodic phrases that characterise the raga in performance. While improvisation relates to choosing the sequence of phrases at the larger time scales, we show that the categorical nature of the musical melodies is preserved through the interaction of the phrases with the changing melodic and rhythmic contexts.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"102 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1879171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46049228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiments and detailed error-analysis of automatic square notation transcription of medieval music manuscripts using CNN/LSTM-networks and a neume dictionary","authors":"C. Wick, F. Puppe","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2021.1873393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2021.1873393","url":null,"abstract":"The automatic recognition of scanned Medieval manuscripts written in square notation still represents a challenge due to degradation, non-standard layouts, or notations. We propose to apply CNN/LSTM networks that are trained using the segmentation-free CTC-loss-function. For evaluation, we use three different manuscripts and achieve a diplomatic Symbol Accuracy Rate (dSAR) of 86.0% on the most difficult book and 92.2% on the cleanest one. A neume dictionary during decoding yields a relative improvement of about 5%. Finally, we perform a thorough error analysis to provide a deeper insight into problems of the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"18 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2021.1873393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49334935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Octave-generalized analysis of chord progressions: Diatonic/fifth relations, missing fundamentals, completion tones","authors":"R. Parncutt, D. Reisinger","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2020.1840596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1840596","url":null,"abstract":"In a representative historical database of musical scores, a sonority was defined at every onset in any voice. For eight trichords—major (047), minor (037), suspended (027), diminished (036), 015, 045, 025, 035—immediately preceding and following sonorities were analysed. Chroma prevalence profiles depended surprisingly little on century or temporal position—especially for major/minor trichords (cf. Krumhansl’s key profiles). Profiles for nine non-chord chromas per trichord were influenced more strongly by diatonic scales and 5th relationships than missing fundamentals (roots) or completion tones (tones that complete familiar tetrachords) according to predictions of simple models.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"52 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2020.1840596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45901458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring pianists’ embodied concepts of piano timbre: An interview study","authors":"Shen Li, R. Timmers","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2020.1826532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1826532","url":null,"abstract":"Whether piano touch can influence piano timbre or not is a highly contested topic between acousticians and musicians. To gain insight into the ways in which pianists understand and use timbre, eight piano students were interviewed about their conceptualisation of timbre and ways of producing different timbres on the piano. Results indicate that pianists interpret timbre holistically as the overall sonic outcome and use embodied conceptualisations to produce timbre: expected/intended timbral effects are associated with corporeal experiences and the body and mind are strongly coupled in perception and production.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"49 1","pages":"477 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2020.1826532","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41967626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anastasia Kolomiets, Y. Grobman, Vladimir V. Popov, Evgeny Strokin, G. Senchikhin, E. Tarazi
{"title":"The titanium 3D-printed flute: New prospects of additive manufacturing for musical wind instruments design","authors":"Anastasia Kolomiets, Y. Grobman, Vladimir V. Popov, Evgeny Strokin, G. Senchikhin, E. Tarazi","doi":"10.1080/09298215.2020.1824240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1824240","url":null,"abstract":"Titanium additive manufacturing (Ti-AM) is currently used for customized parts in medicine, aviation, and aerospace. The combination of superior mechanical and physical properties of titanium alloys, together with lightweight properties, seemed to be attractive also for other, large-scale consumer fields. However, the list of successful Ti-AM applications is still limited. Furthermore, in some areas where the potential of Ti-AM can be considered as especially valuable, no attempts had been found to use it. One such promising area is wind musical instruments. The current case study focused on the design and 3D-printing of titanium flute.","PeriodicalId":16553,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Music Research","volume":"50 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09298215.2020.1824240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43086976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}