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Topics in Engineering Approaches to Music Cognition
Computational Modeling of Expressive Performance
Spring 2006   Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering
Introduction
Week 1 Course syllabus [ PDF ] Class list [ HTML | PDF ] Signup information sheet [ HTML ] Reading plan [ PDF ]
(Jan 11)   Overview
Palmer, C. (1997). Music Performance. Annual Review of Psychology. 48:115-38. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chew ]
Week 2 Gabrielsson, A. (1999). Music Performance. In D. Deutsch (Ed.): The Psychology of Music, Vol.2, pp.501-602. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
(Jan 18) Read and write a report on one of the following: set A (= pp.501-523) OR set B (= pp.523-557, 577-579). presentation (A): [ unal ] reports (A): [ jer, lin, wang, vaziri ] report (AB): [ liu ] presentation (B): [ miles ] reports (B): [ cheng, miles ]
Tempo, Dynamics, Articulation
Week 3 Todd, N. P. M. (1992). The dynamics of dynamics: A model of musical expression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, June 1992, Vol. 91, Issue 6, pp.3540-3550. [ PDF ] presentation: [ liu ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu ]
(Jan 25) Repp, B. H. (1998). A microcosm of musical expression. I. Quantitative analysis of pianists' timing in the initial measures of Chopin's Etude in E major. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Aug 1998, Vol.104, Issue 2, pp.1085-1100. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mosst ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, lin ]
Repp, B. H. (1999). A microcosm of musical expression: II. Quantitative analysis of pianists' dynamics in the initial measures of Chopin's Etude in E major. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Mar 1999, Vol. 105, Issue 3, pp.1972-1988. [ PDF ] presentation: [ vaziri ] report: [ wang ]
Playing Vivaldi's Sonata No. 4 by Eric Cheng. presentation: [ cheng ]
Week 4   Music and Motion
(Feb 1) Todd, N. P. M. (1998). The kinematics of musical expression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 1995, Vol.97, Issue 3, pp.1940-1949. [ PDF ] presentation: [ cheng ] reports: [ cheng, liu, mardirossian ]
Friberg, A., Sundberg, J., and Fryden, L. (2000). Music from motion: Sound level envelopes of tones expressing human locomotion. Journal of New Music Research , 29 (2000), No. 3, pp. 199-210 [ PDF ] presentation: [ chuan, audio ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, miles ]
Week 5   Articulation and Prosody
(Feb 8) Bresin, R. & Battel, G. U. (2000). Articulation strategies in expressive piano performance. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.29, No.3, Sep 2000, pp.211-224. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lin ] reports: [ chuan, mosst, vaziri ]
Lindstrom, E. (2003). The Contribution of Immanent and Performed Accents to Emotional Expression in Short Tone Sequences. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.32, No.3, Sep 2003, p.269-280. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ chuan, miles, wang ]
Palmer, C., & Hutchins, S. (2005). What is musical prosody? In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation 46, Elsevier Press. presentation: [ jer ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, vaziri ]
Week 6   Interpretation
(Feb 15) Palmer, C. (1996). On the assignment of structure in music performance. Music Perception, 14: 23-56. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mardirossian ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian ]
Mazzola, G., & Goller, S. (2002). Performance and Interpretation. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.31, No.3 (September 2002) pp.221-232. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chung ] reports: [ chuan, lin, liu, vaziri, wang ]
De Poli, G. (2004). Methodologies for Expressiveness Modelling of and for Music Performance. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.33 No.3, Sep 2004, pp.189-202. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chiang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mardirossian, unal, vaziri ]
Analytical and Generative Tools
Week 7   Visualization
(Feb 22) Langner J. & Goebl W. (2002). Visualizing Expressive Performance in Tempo-Loudness Space. Computer Music Journal, Vol.27 No.4, Winter 2003, pp.69-83. [ PDF ] presentation: [ cheng ] report: [ cheng, chuan, liu, unal, vaziri ]
Goebl, W., Pampalk, E. & Widmer, G. (2004). "Exploring Expressive Performance Trajectories: Six Famous Pianists Play Chopin Pieces." In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. [ PDF ] presentation: [ mardirossian ] report: [ cheng, chuan, lin, mosst, vaziri ]
Week 8   Analysis
(Mar 1) Widmer, G. & Goebl, W. (2004). Computational Models of Expressive Music Performance: The State of the Art. Journal of New Music Research. Vol.33, No.3, Sep 2004. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chiang ] reports: [ chuan, lin, mardirossian, mosst, vaziri ]
Kopiez, R., Bangert, M., Goebl, W. & Altenmuller (2003). Tempo and Loudness Analysis of a Continuous 28-Hour Performance of Erik Satie's Composition "Vexations". Journal of New Music Research, Vol.32, No.3, Sep 2003, pp.243-258. [ PDF, rec ] presentation: [ liu ] reports: [ cheng, liu, miles, mosst ]
Langner, J., Kopiez, R., Stoffel, C., Wilz, M. (2000). Real-time Analysis of Dynamic Shaping. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 5-10 Aug 2000, Keele, England. [ PDF ] presentation: [ jer ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, lin ]
Week 9   Rule-Based Models
(Mar 8) Friberg, A. (1991). Generative Rules for Music Performance: A Formal Description of a Rule System. Computer Music Journal, Vol.15 No.2, pp.56-71. presentation: [ vaziri ] reports: [ chuan, unal, vaziri ]
Friberg, A., Colombo, V., Fryden, L., Sundberg, J. (2000). Generating Musical Performances with Director Musices. Computer Music Journal, 2000. presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mosst, wang ]
Sundberg, J., Friberg, A., & Bresin, R. (2003). Attempts to Reproduce a Pianist's Expressive Timing with Director Musices Performance Rules. Journal of New Music Research, 2003. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lin ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, mosst, unal, vaziri ]
Week 10   Case-Based Reasoning
(Mar 22) Arcos, J. L., de Mantaras, R. L., & Serra, X. (1998). SaxEx: A Case-Based Reasoning System for Generating Expressive Musical Performances. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.27 No.3 [ PS/eg ] presenter: [ miles ] reports: [ chuan, liu, mardirossian, vaziri ]
Arcos, J. L., de Mantaras, R. L. (2001). An Interactive Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Generating Expressive Music. Applied Intelligence, Vol.14 No.1, Jan 2001, pp.115-129. [ PDF ] presenter: [ chuan ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mardirossian, mosst, vaziri ]
TOOLS for alignment collected by Miles, Cheng, and Unal.
TOOLS for loudness measurement collected by Liu, Wang, and Jer.
TOOLS for tempo tracking collected by Lin, Chiang, and Chung.
TOOLS for visualization collected by Chuan, Mardirossian, Mosst, and Vaziri.
Week 11   Machine-Learning
(Mar 29) Bresin, R. (1998). Artificial neural networks based models for automatic performance of musical scores. Journal of New Music Research, Vol.27 No.3, pp.239-270. presentation: [ mosst ] reports: [ chuan, jer, lin, miles, mosst, vaziri ]
Ilmonen, T. & Takala, T. (1999). Conductor following with artificial neural networks. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 1999. [ PS ] presentation: [ miles ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, mardirossian, mosst, wang ]
Raphael, C. (2001). Can the Computer Learn to Play Music Expressively? Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2001. [ PDF ] presentation: [ vaziri ] reports: [ cheng, liu, vaziri ]
Week 12 Widmer, G. (2002). Machine Discoveries: A Few Simple, Robust Local Expression Principles. Journal of New Music research, Vol.31, No.1, Mar 2002, pp.37-50. [ PDF ] presenter: [ jer ] reports: [ chuan, jer, lin, liu, mosst, vaziri ]
(Apr 5) Widmer, G. & Tobudic, A. (2003). Playing Mozart by Analogy: Learning Multi-level Timing and Dynamics Strategies. Journal of New Music Research. Gol.32 No.3, Sep 2003, pp.259-268. [ PDF ] presenter: [ chiang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, liu, mardirossian, mosst ]
Interactive Systems
Week 13   The Radio Baton
(Apr 12) Mathews, M. V. (1991a). The Conductor Program and Mechanical Baton. In M. V. Mathews and J. R. Pierce, eds. Current Directions in Computer Music Research. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 263-281. presentation: [ lin ] reports: [ cheng, miles, mosst, wang ]
Matthews, M. V. (1991b). The Radio-Baton and Conductor Program, or: Pitch, the Most Important and Least Expressive Part of Music. Computer Music Journal, Vol.15 No.4, pp.37-46. presentation: [ unal ] reports: [ liu, mardirossian ]
Sundberg, J., Friberg, A., Mathews, M., Bennett, G. (2003). Experiences in Combining the Radio Baton and the Director Musices Performance Grammar. Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer (MOSART) Barcelona, Spain, Nov 15-17, 2001. [ PDF ] presentation: [ wang ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, jer, wang ]
Mathews, M., Friberg, A., Bennett, G., Sapp, C., Sundberg, J. (2003). A marriage of the Director Musices program and the conductor program. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, August 6-9, 2003 (SMAC 03), Stockholm, Sweden. reports: [ liu, mosst, vaziri ]
Week 14   Other Interfaces
(Apr 19) Dixon, S., Goebl, W., Widmer, G. (2005). The "Air Worm": an Interface for Real-Time Manipulation of Expressive Music Performance. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2005. [ PDF ] presentation: [ chuan ] reports: [ cheng, chuan, mardirossian, mosst, vaziri ]
Chew, E., François, A. R. J., Liu, J. & Yang, A. (2005). ESP: A Driving Interface for Musical Expression Synthesis. Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 26-28, 2005. [ PDF ] presentation: [ liu ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, miles, mosst ]
Wanderley M.M. & Orio N. (2002). Evaluation of Input Devices for Musical Expression: Borrowing Tools from HCI. Computer Music Journal, Vol.26, No.3, Sep 2002, pp.62-76(15). [ PDF ] presenter: [ unal ] reports: [ liu, unal, vaziri ]
Performers' Perspectives
Week 15   Three Pianists' Opinions
(Apr 26) Brendel, A. (1976). Musical Thoughts and After-Thoughts. London: Robson Books. Selected essays. presenter: [ cheng ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, miles, wang ] (read at week 12)
Wolff, K. (1979). Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music. London: Faber Music in association with Faber and Faber. Chapter 10: Interpretation of Character and Structure, p.120-153. presenter: [ mardirossian ] reports: [ cheng, mardirossian, vaziri ]
Wolff, K. (1979). Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music. London: Faber Music in association with Faber and Faber. Chapter 11: The Means of Regulating Sound, Chapter 12: Technique, and Appendix, p.154-182. presenter: [ mosst ] reports: [ lin, mosst ]
Chaffin, R., G. Imreh, A. F. Lemieux, and C. Chen (2003). "Seeing the Big Picture": Piano Practice as Expert Problem Solving. Music Perception, Vol.20, No.4 (Summer 2003), p. 465-490. reports: [ liu, wang ]
Week 16
(May 3)
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