Principles of baroque music: Improvisation, ornamentation, polyphony

The relation of improvisation in music & Social character of improviser

This research investigates the relation of social practices and behavior of the musician or singer with the quality of his improvisation in the field of music. Using analytic method and field study, it explores the views of two groups of interviewees in the form of two separate statistical communities. The first sample consists of outstanding teachers of music in sixties and nineties which deal...

Rhythm Extraction from Polyphony Symbolic Music

In this paper, we focus on the rhythmic component of symbolic music similarity, proposing several ways to extract a monophonic rhythmic signature from a symbolic polyphonic score. To go beyond the simple extraction of all time intervals between onsets (noteson extraction), we select notes according to their length (short and long extractions) or their intensities (intensity+/− extractions). Onc...

Mobile Group Music Improvisation

Collaborative improvisation, composition, and performance of music constitute a basic and distinctive form of human interaction. Across cultures, the production and enjoyment of music is typically an open, collaborative, activity more analogous to informal conversation or story telling than to a formal lecture. We know very little about how to design for such situations even though we have seen...

Improvisation in Music

Control Improvisation with Application to Music

We introduce the concept of control improvisation, the process of generating a random sequence of control events guided by a reference sequence and satisfying a given specification. We propose a formal definition of the control improvisation problem and an empirical solution applied to the domain of music. More specifically, we consider the scenario of generating a monophonic Jazz melody (solo)...