Mokranjac on repeat: Reaffirming musical canon through sound recordings (PGP-RTB/RTS discography)

Musical Recordings

Automatic Transcription of Musical Recordings

An automatic music transcription system is described which is applicable to the analysis of real-world musical recordings. Earlier presented algorithms are extended with two new methods. The first method suppresses the non-harmonic signal components caused by drums and percussive instruments by applying principles from RASTA spectrum processing. The second method estimates the number of concurr...

The Perception of Musical Sound Why Focus on the Perception of Musical Sound?

The considerable development of science and technology in the XXth century has put many new tools at the disposal of the musican -intellectual tools as well as material tools. Sounds and images as well can now be synthesized. The process of synthesis is completely unprecedented : visual and auditory signals can be calculated altogether. This brings considerable changes not only to the generatio...

Is Diversity in Musical Performance Truly in Decline? The Evidence of Sound Recordings

In the contemporary literature on recorded performance, the standard view is that today there is less diversity among interpretations of concert-hall music than in the first decades of the twentieth century.1 When explaining this lack of diversity, commentators generally point to specific record industry practices and the way performers use sound recordings. It is often claimed that with the ad...

Cataloguing and Searching Musical Sound Recordings in an Ontology-Based Information System

Although a lot of information is available worldwide, getting the right piece of information is challenging. In addition, integrating information from different sources is still very complicated. To make the different information systems to interoperate, it is necessary to provide common knowledge structures. Ontologies have been developed for making the semantics of a domain explicit. However,...