A study is reported investigating the relationship between modality (major/minor) and dynamics (piano/forte) on four affects – as evident in the content of musical lyrics. Forty solo vocal works were sampled: 10 in the major mode with a loud (forte) dynamic level, 10 in the major mode with a quiet (piano) dynamic level, 10 in the minor mode with a loud dynamic level, and 10 in the minor mode wi...

We present a system that we call ‘The Piano Music Companion’ and that is able to follow and understand (at least to some extent) a live piano performance. Within a few seconds this system can identify the piece that is being played, and the position within the piece. It then tracks the progress of the performer over time via a robust score following algorithm. The companion is useful in multipl...

In this paper, a method providing an excitation signal for the waveguide piano synthesis is presented. The waveguide synthesis string model needs an excitation signal, which stimulates the model to resonate at the partial frequencies. This signal simulates the force pulse, which occurs in the piano when the hammer hits the string. In the proposed method, the excitation signal is produced by usi...

The article deals with the issues of organizing professional development future teachers in basic general education and system additional process assisting gifted children providing them psychological pedagogical support. authors note that quality giftedness is most in-demand modern society. At same time, question arises about criteria indicators formation readiness to work among student pedago...

This paper presents the results of a study of piano pedalling techniques on the sustain pedal using a newly designed measurement system named Piano Pedaller. The system is comprised of an optical sensor mounted in the piano pedal bearing block and an embedded platform for recording audio and sensor data. This enables recording the pedalling gesture of real players and the piano sound under norm...

Indisch music is a that uses combination of “Eastern” idioms and “Western” in composition popular Dutch-East Indies era. This article analyses the composed by Ki Hadjar Dewantara, well-known educational figure composer Indonesia Constant van de Wall, Javanese-Dutch postcolonial perspective. Using qualitative method with theory framework framework, this answers two research questions: first how ...

In a piano lesson, a teacher teaches a way of performance by providing indirect cues, e.g., metaphors and singing. A model performance is one of the important cues. Meanwhile, it is difficult even for the teacher to perform a very technical piece without enough practice, even if he/she had formerly performed it. However, the teacher still retains his/her knowledge for performing the piece. Acco...

This paper explores cognitive style as one of the factors that may explain tensions that can exist between individual electroacoustic composers and the software they use. The discussion centres on two linked studies: (a) a small scale intensive qualitative case study of 2 established composers, in which they unexpectedly revealed differences that mapped remarkably well onto one of the key dimen...

Playing a musical instrument demands the integration of sensory and perceptual information with motor processes in order to produce a harmonic musical piece. The diversity of brain mechanisms involved and the joyful character of playing an instrument make musical instrument training a potential vehicle for neurorehabilitation of motor skills in patients with cerebral palsy (CP). This clinical c...

For centuries, composers have tried to discover new forms of musical expression. After Western music evolved from its use of a modal to a tonal organizational system, tonality eventually gave way to bitonality and polytonality in the second half of nineteenth century, and subsequently atonality in the first half of twentieth century. During the twentieth century, composers paid attention to for...