Music historians have observed informally that Western music became increasingly chromatic between roughly 1600 and 1900. This view is tested formally, and the results are shown to be consistent with the standard view. Music historians have similarly assumed that the music of major composers such as Mozart and Beethoven became increasingly chromatic over their respective lifetimes. Measurements...

Recent literature has demonstrated the difficulty of classifying between composers who write in extremely similar styles (homogeneous style). Additionally, machine learning studies in this field have been exclusively of technical import with little musicological interpretability or significance. We present a supervised machine learning system which addresses the difficulty of differentiating be...

The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated. Piano tones with varying hammer velocities were produced by a computer-monitored acoustic piano containing optical sensors and solenoids, and the sounded tones were recorded and digitized for analysis. Maximum amplitudes over the duration of the sounded tones were linearly proportional...

Currently, education for sustainable development is a priority area of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). In 2009 the World Organization (OMEP) announced launch an international project on Sustainable Development (ESD) young children, topics which change regularly. The article gives brief overview preschool children in Russia, examines implementation latest OMEP – ESD Project Rating Sca...

In this paper, we present a method for the automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music. The input to this method consists in piano music recordings stored in WAV files, while the pitch of all the notes in the corresponding score forms the output. This method operates on a frame-by-frame basis and exploits a suitable time-frequency representation of the audio signal. The solution proposed ...

Measurement of pianists’ arm movement provides a signal, which is composed of controlled movements and noise. The noise is composed of uncontrolled movement generated by the interaction of the arm with the piano action and measurement error. We propose a probabilistic model for arm touch movements, which allows to estimate the amount of noise in a joint. This estimation helps to interpret the m...

We present here three developments for the Commuted Piano Synthesis model described more fully elswhere in these proceedings [3]: (1)a theoretical foundation and calibration scheme for the required linearized piano hammer system; (2) a simple algorithmic synthesis approach for the commuted soundboard impulse response, eliminating the need for any wave table memory; and (3) a calibration method ...

If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top...that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. (Fuller 1969, ...

This study compares affective piano performance with speech production from the perspective of dynamics: unlike previous research, this study uses finger force and articulatory effort as indexes reflecting the dynamics of affective piano performance and speech production respectively. Moreover, for the first time physical constraints such as piano fingerings and speech articulatory constraints ...