For over half a century, musicologists and linguists have suggested that the prosody of a culture's native language is reflected in the rhythms and melodies of its instrumental music. Testing this idea requires quantitative methods for comparing musical and spoken rhythm and melody. This study applies such methods to the speech and music of England and France. The results reveal that music refl...

17th and 18th century music scores were copied and distributed in a manual way. Music historians are interested in how the compositions were distributed or in other words, who copied the compositions when and where. Such information may also help to determine the composer when a piece of unknown origin is found. In this paper, we present ongoing work on the development of a software system to a...

Abstract. This paper describes a method that enables us to detect the local boundaries of a generative theory of tonal music (GTTM). Although systems that enable us to automatically acquire local boundaries have been proposed such as a full automatic time-span tree analyzer (FATTA) or σGTTM, musicologists have to correct the boundaries because of numerous errors. In light of this, we propose a ...

I will be dealing principally with the musical experience of the analyst of performance, and in particular with the problematic nature of its transmission to others (i.e. the readers and listeners of his publications). Given the crucial importance of the individual and collective auditory culture of musicologists in their daily work, this theme can not only be considered as an epistemological i...

The canon in the first act of “Fidelio” was generally regarded as one best moments opera from very beginning its hard scenic life. While 19th century critics admired quartet, scholars 20th showed true scientific interest this ensemble. This attention made Beethoven’s quartet most famous canons music. article represents an attempt to summarize modern musicology’s views on “Fidelio”. On basis pap...

This paper investigates the concept of variation in music from the perspective of music similarity. Music similarity is a central concept in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), however there exists no comprehensive approach to music similarity yet. As a consequence, MIR faces the challenge on how to relate musical features to the experience of similarity by listeners. Musicologists and studies i...

Folk music is closely related to the musical culture of a specific nation or region. Even though folk songs have been passed down mainly by oral tradition, most musicologists study the relation between folk songs on the basis of symbolic music descriptions, which are obtained by transcribing recorded tunes into a score-like representation. Due to the complexity of audio recordings, once having ...

Links to a broad set of online resources for music educators, including such areas as individual musicians and groups in all genres, composers and composition, sites related to performance, and the commercial world of music. The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom. Provides a wide variety of materials, research reports, and articles on all aspects of teaching music. Although the focus is o...

This paper presents a novel automatic recognition framework for hand-written mensural music. It takes a scanned manuscript as input and yields as output modern music scores. Compared to the previous mensural Optical Music Recognition (OMR) systems, ours shows not only promising performance in music recognition, but also works as a complete pipeline which integrates both recognition and transcri...