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Introduction
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Week 1
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Introduction
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(Jan 13)
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Course syllabus [ PDF ]
Class list [ HTML | PDF ]
Signup information sheet [ PDF ]
Reading plan [ PDF ]
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Week 2
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Making Music
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(Jan 20)
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Impromptu by Jeanne Bamberger and Armando Hernandez, available at www.tuneblocks.com
Jeanne Bamberger (2004). "The development of intuitive musical understanding: a natural experiment." Psychology of Music 30(1):7-30. [ PDF ] presentation: [ parke ]
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Hyperscore by Mary Farbood and Egon Pasztor, available at web.media.mit.edu/~mary/hyperscore
Kevin Jennings (2004) "Computer-Mediated Music Composition - A Case Study." Special Issue of EIT - Learning with ICT for C21st. [ PDF ] presentation: [ singh ]
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Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos performed by the Tosheff Piano Duo, Vely Stoyanova and Ilia Tosheff, and the USC Thornton Symphony.
More info about the duo at www.tosheffpianoduo.com. Concert info. [ notes1, notes2, notes3 ]
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Sample student homeworks and compositions created using Impromptu and Hyperscore: [ huang, mooser, parke, wang, zali ]
Other cool compositions: [ index ]
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Week 3
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Digital Representation of Symbolic Music
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(Jan 27)
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MuseData by CCARH, available at www.musedata.org.
Walter B. Hewlet (1997). "The MuseData Representation of Musical Information." In Beyond MIDI: Eleanor Selfridge-Field (ed.) The Handbook of Musical Codes. [ HTML ] presentation: [ goodney ]
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The Humdrum Toolkit by David Huron, available at csml.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum
David Huron (1999). "Humdrum: A Brief Tour." Ohio State University. [ HTML ] presentation: [ hossain ]
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GUIDO Music Notation by the SALIERI Project group, available at www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/AFS/GUIDO
Holger Hoos, K.A.Hamel, Kai Renz and Juergen Kilian (1998). "The GUIDO Music Notation Format - A Novel Approach for Adequately Representing Score-level Music." ICMC:451-454. [ PDF/PS ]
Kai Renz and Holger Hoos (1998). "A Web-based Approach to Music Notation Using GUIDO." ICMC:455-458. [ PDF/PS ] presentation: [ huang ]
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Homework 2: [ PDF ]
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Musical Structures
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Week 4
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Detecting Beat
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(Feb 3)
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Simon Dixon (2001) "Automatic Extraction of Tempo and Beat From Expressive Performances." JNMR 30(1). [ PDF ] presentation: [ sundar ] reports: [ li, stein, sundar ]
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Masataka Goto (2001). "An audio-based real-time beat tracking system for music with or without drum-sounds." JNMR, 30(2):159-171, 2001. [ PDF ] presentation: [ stein ] reports: [ mooser, huang, stein, wang ]
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Eric Scheirer (1998). "Tempo and beat analysis of acoustic musical signals." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103(1): 588-601. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lee ] reports: [ zali, shiu ]
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George Tzanetakis, Georg Essl, and Perry Cook (2002). "Human perception and computer extraction of beat strength." DAFX. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mooser ] reports: [ li, mooser, wang, zali ]
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Week 5
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Rhythm and Meter (conducted by Anja Volk)
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(Feb 10)
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Anja Volk. "The Generating of Metrical Hierarchies using Inner Metric Analysis" manuscript. reports: [ huang, stein, zali ]
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Douglas Eck (2001). "A Positive-Evidence Model for Rhythmical Beat Induction." JNMR 30. pp. 187-200. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ hossain, wang ]
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Fabien Gouyon and Simon Dixon. (2005). "A review of automatic rhythm description systems." CMJ 29:1 [ PDF ] presentation: [ shiu ] reports: [ huang, sundar ]
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Anssi Klapuri, Antti Eronen and Jaakko Astola (2004). "Analysis of the Meter of Acoustic Musical Signals." IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing. [ PDF ] presentation: [ li, e.g. ] reports: [ hossain, mooser ]
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Week 6
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Recognizing Pitch(es)
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(Feb 17)
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Samer Abdallah and Mark Plumbley (2004). "Polyphonic Music Transcription by non-negative sparse coding of power spectra." ISMIR [ PDF ] presentation: [ shiu ] reports: [ huang, shiu ]
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Alain de Cheveigne and Hideki Kawahara (2002). "YIN, a fundamental frequency estimator for speech and music." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111:1917-1930. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lee ] reports: [ hossain, zali ]
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Malcolm Slaney and Richard F. Lyon (1990). A perceptual pitch detector. ICASSP (1):357-360 [ PDF ] presentation: [ stein ] reports: [ stein ]
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Week 7
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Melody and Auditory Streaming
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(Feb 24)
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Emilios Cambouropoulos (1996). A Formal Theory for the Discovery of Local Boundaries in a Melodic Surface. Proceedings of the III Journees d'Informatique Musicale. [ PS ] presentation: [ mooser ] reports: [ hossain, mooser, sundar ]
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Elaine Chew and Xiaodan Wu (2004). "Separating Voices in Polyphonic Music: A Contig Mapping Approach." CMMR, Springer Verlag LNCS #3310. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chew ] reports: [ mooser, sundar, wang, zali ]
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Conklin and Anagnostopoulou (to appear). "Segmental Pattern Discovery in Music." INFORMS JoC. presentation: [ hossain ] reports: [ hossain, zali ]
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Elizabeth Margulis (to appear). "A Model of Melodic Expectation." Music Perception. presentation: [ li/wang ] reports: [ li, wang ]
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Week 8
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Grammars for Music
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(Mar 3)
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Steedman M J (1984) "A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences." Music Perception 2:1 52-77. presentation: [ sundar ] report: [ sundar, zali ]
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Steedman M J (1996) "The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Music and Mentals Models." In: Garnham A., Oakhill J. (eds.), Mentals Models in Cognitive Science. Psychology Press, pp.305-318 [ PS ] presentation: [ zali ] report: [ hossain, mooser, shiu, wang, zali ]
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Netta Spiro (2002). "Combining Grammar-Based and Memory-Based Models of Perception of Time Signature and Phase." In C. Anagnostopoulou, M. Ferrand, and A. Smaill, eds. Music and Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: Springer, pp. 183-194. [ PDF ] presentation: [ huang ] report: [ hossain, huang, mooser, shiu, wang ]
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Week 9
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Tonality and Context
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(Mar 10)
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Elaine Chew (to appear). "Slicing it all ways: mathematical models for tonal induction, approximation and segmentation using the Spiral Array." INFORMS JoC [ draft ] reports: [ sundar, zali ]
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Emilia Gomez (to appear). "Tonal Description of Polyphonic Audio for Music Content Processing." INFORMS JoC. presentation: [ shiu ] reports: [ hossain, mooser, wang ]
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Carol Krumhansl (1990). "The Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch." Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch. Oxford University Press. presentation: [ li ]
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Ozgur Izmirli and Semih Bilgen (1996). "A Model for Tonal Context Time Course Calculation from Acoustical Input." JNMR 25(3). presentation: [ lee ] reports: [ hossain, huang, mooser, sundar ]
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Week 10
(Mar 17)
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SPRING BREAK
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Week 11
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GUEST LECTURE: David Temperley, Eastman School of Music
( Seminar Announcement )
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(Mar 24)
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David Temperley (2002). "Cognition of Basic Musical Structures." MIT Press. Chapters 1 (intro:skim), 2 (meter) and 6 (harmony).
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Melisma Music Analyzer by David Temperley and Daniel Sleator, available at www.link.cs.cmu.edu/music-analysis
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Homework 9: [ PDF ]
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Interactive Systems
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Week 12
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Generating Music
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(Mar 31)
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Gerard Assayag, Shlomo Dubnov (2004) "Using Factor Oracles for Machine Improvisation." IEEE Soft Computing: Special Issue on Formal Systems and Music. [ PDF ] presentation: [ stein ] reports: [ hossain, mooser ]
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Darrel Conklin. "Music Generation from Statistical Models." AISB 2003 Symposium on AI and Creativity in the Arts and Sciences, pp 30-35. [ PDF ] presentation: [ hossain ] reports: [ hossain, shiu, stein, zali ]
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Francois Pachet (2003). "The Continuator: Musical Interaction with Style." JNMR 32(3):333-341. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ sundar, zali ]
The Continuator by Francois Pachet, available at www.csl.sony.fr/~pachet
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Belinda Thom (2003). "Interactive Improvisational Music Companionship: A User-Modeling Approach." User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal; Special Issue on User Modeling and Intelligent Agents. [ PS ] presentation: [ sundar ] reports: [ li, sundar ]
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Week 13
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Creating Expression
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(Apr 7)
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Josep Lluis Arcos, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras and Xavier Serra (1998). "SaxEx: A Case-Based Reasoning System for Generating Expressive Musical Performances." JNMR 27(3) [ PS/eg ] presentation: [ mooser ] reports: [ hossain, mooser, stein, wang ]
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Roberto Bresin (1998). "Artificial Neural Networks Based Models for Automatic Performance of Musical Scores." JNMR 27(3). [ eg ] reports: [ sundar ]
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Sundberg J, Friberg A, and Bresin R (2003) Attempts to reproduce a pianist's expressive timing with Director Musices performance rules. JNMR 32(3):317-326. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lee, zali ] reports: [ lee, zali ]
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Werner Goebl, Elias Pampalk and Gerhard Widmer (2004). "Exploring Expressive Performance Trajectories: Six Famous Pianists Play Chopin Pieces." ICMPC8. [ PDF ] presentation: [ huang ] reports: [ hossain, li, mooser, stein, wang, zali ]
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Week 14
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Some Software for Music Programming
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(Apr 14)
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OpenMusic by IRCAM, available at sourceforge.net/projects/ircam-openmusic
an object-oriented visual programming environment for music composition based on CommonLisp/CLOS
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Midi Toolbox for Matlab from the U. of Jyvaskyla, available at http://www.jyu.fi/musica/miditoolbox
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Nyquist by Roger Dannenberg, available at www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~music/music.software.html
a sound synthesis and composition language based on a Lisp syntax
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Improv by Craig Sapp, available at improv.sapp.org
a C++ environment for writing programs that enable musician/computer interaction using MIDI instruments.
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Week 15
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GUEST LECTURE: Christopher Raphael, Indiana University, Bloomington
( Seminar Announcement )
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(Apr 21)
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Christopher Raphael (2004). "Aligning Musical Scores with Audio usig hybrid Graphical Models." AAAI 2004. [ PDF ] reports: [ mooser, wang, zali ]
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Christopher Raphael and Joshua Stoddard (2003). "Harmonic Analysis with Probabilistic Graphical Models." ISMIR 2003. [ PDF ] reports: [ hossain, shiu ]
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Christopher Raphael (2003). "Orchestral Musical Accompaniment from Synthesized Audio." ICMC. [ PDF ] reports: [ stein, sundar, zali ]
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Christopher Raphael (2001). "A Bayesian Network for Real-Time Musical Accompaniment." NIPS. [ PS ] reports: [ hossain, lee, wang ]
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Week 16
(Apr 28)
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PROJECTS: [
Final Projects |
Pictures |
Students ]
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