In two experiments, we investigated context effects on tempo judgments for familiar and unfamiliar songs performed by popular artists. In Experiment 1, participants made comparative tempo judgments to a remembered standard for song clips drawn from either a slow or a fast context, created by manipulating the tempos of the same songs. Although both familiar and unfamiliar songs showed significan...

This paper describes a tempo estimation algorithm submitted to the MIREX 2011, and is an extension of the work presented in [2]. Using the tempo estimation results from four different approaches (BeatIt, Ellis, Davies and MPEG7-XM), we use a heuristic strategy to obtain the slow and fast tempo from audio music combinig their results, based on the hypothesis that the tatum and tactus tempo hiera...

Tempo estimation is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval and has been researched extensively. One problem still unsolved is the tendency of tempo estimation algorithms to produce results that are wrong by a small number of known factors (so-called octave errors). We propose a method that uses supervised learning to predict such tempo estimation errors. In a post-processing step,...

This paper concerns both rhythm recognition and tempo analysis of expressive music performance based on a probabilistic approach. In rhythm recognition, the modern continuous speech recognition technique is applied to find the most likely intended note sequence from the given sequence of fluctuating note durations in the performance. Combining stochastic models of note durations deviating from ...

Parallel computers and distributed systems are becoming increasingly important. Their impressive computation to cost ratios o er a considerable higher performance than that possible with sequential machines. Yet there are few commercial applications written for them. The reason is that programming in these environments is substantially more di cult than programming for sequential machines. In t...

In the current literature preferred tempo is usually located around 100 bpm (600 ms) (Fraisse, 1982). We will give a review of more recent experimental evidence and present a series of experiments and analyses of existing data that show that preferred tempo is located at a significantly faster speed. It will be shown that it is located somewhere between 120 and 130 bpm, so 500 ms (120 bpm) is m...

In this paper, we describe a CBR system for applying musically acceptable tempo transformations to monophonic audio recordings of musical performances. Within the tempo transformation process, the expressivity of the performance is adjusted in such a way that the result sounds natural for the new tempo. A case base of previously performed melodies is used to infer the appropriate expressivity. ...

Tempo is a simple formal language for modeling distributed, concurrent, and timed systems as collections of interacting state machines, called timed input/output automata. Tempo provides natural mathematical notations for describing systems, their intended properties, and intended relationships between their descriptions at varying levels of abstraction. The Tempo Toolkit is an implementation o...

This study used the psychophysical approach to investigate the impact of tempo and volume of background music on the maximum acceptable weight of lift (MAWL), heart rate (HR) and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) of participants engaged in lifting. Ten male college students participated in this study. They lifted a box from the floor, walked 1-2 steps as required, placed the box on a table and...

The effect of deviations from temporal expectations on tempo discrimination was studied in 3 experiments using isochronous auditory sequences. Temporal deviations consisted of advancing or delaying the onset of a comparison pattern relative to an "expected" onset, defined by an extension of the periodicity of a preceding standard pattern. An effect of onset condition was most apparent when resp...