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Studio Music and Jazz

The mission of the Studio Music and Jazz Instrumental Degree Programs is to: (1) prepare jazz instrumentalists to enter the music profession or further jazz studies; (2) identify, recruit, and retain high quality students who seek to pursue studio/jazz performance as a career; (3) foster faculty creativity and performance which serves as a role model for students; (4) develop, and revise course...

Approaching jazz-influenced wind music

A lecture given by Dr. Alan Wagner on “Jazz Influences in Twentieth Century Symphonic Band Literature” at the 2003 conference of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles revealed an extensive list of jazzinfluenced works should refute any claims that wind ensembles suffer from lack of quality works by established composers. However, what was also highlighted is the fairly l...

RWC Music Database: Popular, Classical and Jazz Music Databases

This paper describes the design policy and specifications of the RWC Music Database, a music database (DB) that is available to researchers for common use and research purposes. Various commonly available DBs have been built in other research fields and have made a significant contribution to the research in those fields. The field of musical information processing, however, has lacked a common...

Modeling Expressive Music Performance in Jazz

In this paper we describe a machine learning approach to one of the most challenging aspects of computer music: modeling the knowledge applied by a musician when performing a score in order to produce an expressive performance of a piece. We apply machine learning techniques to a set of monophonic recordings of Jazz standards in order to induce both rules and a numeric model for expressive perf...

The evolving image of jazz in Britain in sheet music