In the continuing goal of codifying the classification of musical sounds and rules for data mining we present the following classification methodology that produces a hierarchical granulation structure. The motivation for this paper is based upon the fallibility of Hornbostel/Sachs, the generic classification scheme used in Music Information Retrieval for instruments. In eliminating the redunda...

ABSTRACT Very little is known about the manufacturing and use of ancient Egyptian instruments, their discovery very rare. An extensive radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating program has been conducted on 25 musical instruments currently held at Louvre Museum musée du ) Lyon Fine Arts des Beaux-Arts de ). This study includes cordophones (harps, lyres, lutes), membranophones (drums, tambourines), idiophones ...

based on their own specific social requirements, all societies have made use of music on numerous and various occasions. music has played a role in a wide range of social activities, including at prestigious events such as governmental receptions, court ceremonies and martial music, as well as during national and religious celebrations. the aim of this article is to examine martial musical inst...

The relevance of the article is to consider Bolivian guitar music as an important component modern South American repertoire. On example works famous composers and performers Alfredo Domínguez, Fernando Arduz, Jilberto Rojas, connections with folklore traditions country, poetics "wind music", its timbre specificity have been revealed.
 Main objective study reveal aspects artistic embodimen...

While there are a great variety of digital musical interfaces available to the working musician, few offer the level of immediate, nuanced and instinctive interaction that one finds in an acoustic shaker. bEADS is a prototype of a digital musical instrument that utilises the gestural vocabulary associated with shaken idiophones and expands on the techniques and sonic possibilities associated wi...

in the safavid period, as opposed to previous periods such as the timurid era, there is not any discussion of organology in musical treatises and authors had just referred to the name of some instruments. thus, in order to investigate in this field, it is necessary to study other worthwhile historical sources. in the discussed historical period, there are lots of travel accounts which contain i...

In this paper we describe an approach for introducing new electronic percussive sound possibilities for string instruments by "listening" to the sounds of the instrument's body and extracting audio and data from the wood's acoustic vibrations. A method for capturing, localizing and analyzing the percussive hits on the instrument's body is presented, in connection with an audio-driven electronic...

In this project we investigate new ways of diffusing the sound via the use of sound drivers, which enables to turn any surface into audio diffusion surface. This kind of technology can benefit to a lot of varied projects. Our investigations led us to use this technology in two types of application : an artistic one, in which drivers were used with idiophones (gongs, tams, etc.) turning them int...

In the continuing goal of codifying the classification of musical sounds and extracting rules for data mining, we present the following methodology of categorization, based on numerical parameters. The motivation for this paper is based upon the fallibility of Hornbostel and Sachs generic classification scheme, used in Music Information Retrieval for instruments. In eliminating the redundancy a...