Ornamentation in Spanish Renaissance Vocal Music

Homosexuality in the Spanish Renaissance

Language Identification in Vocal Music

Language identification is an important field in spoken language processing. The identification of the language sung or spoken in music, however, has attracted only minor attention so far. This, however, is an important task when it comes to categorizing, classifying and labelling of music data. In this paper, we review our efforts of transferring wellestablished techniques from spoken language...

Prologue: The culture of Renaissance instrumental music

In Renaissance courts and cities, instrumental music was deeply woven into the fabric and function of everyday life, and was accessible to a wide, demographically diverse swath of the populace. Domestic entertainment, civic and village events, courtly ritual, and the functional, clockwork activities of a city, court, or militia, all demanded the contributions of instrumentalists. The wide diver...

Accent-meter alignment in Japanese vocal music

Sunghye Cho, University of Pennsylvania There is an ongoing debate about the nature of pitch accents. Even in Tokyo Japanese (TJ), which is the most widely cited pitch-accent language, the pitch accent is analyzed in two distinct ways: an accentual approach and a tonal one ([2, 3, 4, 7], among others). In the accentual approach (1a), an accent marks the position of a pitch drop from High (H) to...

Vocal Segment Classification in Popular Music

This paper explores the vocal and non-vocal music classification problem within popular songs. A newly built labeled database covering 147 popular songs is announced. It is designed for classifying signals from 1sec time windows. Features are selected for this particular task, in order to capture both the temporal correlations and the dependencies among the feature dimensions. We systematically...