Music, one of the most structurally analyzed forms of human creativity, provides an opportune platform for computer simulation of human artistic choice. This thesis addresses the question of how well a computer model can capture and imitate the improvisational style of a jazz soloist. How closely can improvisational style be approximated by a set of rules? Can a computer program write music tha...

Harmony is an important component in music. Chord progressions, which represent harmonic changes of music with understandable notations, have been used in popular music and Jazz. This article explores the question of whether a chord progression can be summarized for music retrieval. Various possibilities for chord progression simplification schemes, N-gram construction schemes, and distance fun...

Abstract Writing about jazz often emphasizes urbanity and focuses on a geographically bounded scene. This can obscure what people do with to affirm community across distances, in the context of Black suburbanization. Likewise, construction as an art music oriented around canonical past does not allow full understanding musicians commercial culture construct present. In this article, I present n...

This study investigates the production and perception of timing, synchronisation and dynamics in jazz trio performances. In a production experiment, six trio combinations of one saxophonist, two bassists, and three drummers were recorded while they performed three popular jazz songs. Onset timing and dynamics of each performer were extracted and analysed. Results showed that the tempo was signi...

Scott J. Simon School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, CIS1040, Tampa, FL 33620-7800. Email:[email protected]. Phone: 813.974.3521. Fax: 813.974.6840 The following interdisciplinary research explores the concept of entropy in jazz improvisation and demonstrates a method for measuring it utilizing standard music notation. Formulas are adapted ...

When compared with individuals without explicit training in music, adult musicians have facilitated neural functions in several modalities. They also display structural changes in various brain areas, these changes corresponding to the intensity and duration of their musical training. Previous studies have focused on investigating musicians with training in Western classical music. However, mus...