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Introduction
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Week 1
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Introduction to the course, and to concepts of beat, tempo, and loudness.
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(Jan 12)
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Listening examples include: Kreisler, Bach's Unaccompanied Violin Sonata, Glenn Gould's recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations, Brahms' Hungarian Dances.
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Week 2
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Palmer, C., & Hutchins, S. (2006). What is musical prosody? In B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 46: 245-278. [ PDF ] reports: [ bhattacharjee, lakshminarayanan, rajagopal, schankler ]
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(Jan 19)
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Homework 1B: Bring a piece of music that has variations in tempo or loudness to share with the class. Download and install QMUL's Sonic Visualiser.
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Rhythm in Music and Speech
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Week 3
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Patel, A.D., Iversen, J.R., & Rosenberg, J.C. (2006). Comparing the rhythm and melody of speech and music: The case of British English and French. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119:3034-3047. [ PDF ] presentation: [ balajee ] reports: [ bhattacharjee, lakshminarayanan, rajagopal, schankler ]
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(Jan 26)
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Iversen, J.R., Patel, A.D., & Ohgushi, K. (2008). Perception of rhythmic grouping depends on auditory experience. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124: 2263-2271. [ PDF ] presentation: [ yuan ] reports: [ bhattacharjee, highfill ]
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Patel, A.D. (2006). Musical rhythm, linguistic rhythm, and human evolution. Music Perception, 24:99-104. [ PDF ] presentation: [ rajagopal ] reports: [ rajagopal ]
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(Jan 28)
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Special Event: Attend the following talk by Aniruddh Patel to take place at 3:30pm in Doheny 240 - Rhythm in Speech and Music. Announcement: [PDF]
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HOMEWORK 2B: Quantifying beats, tempo, and rubato [ txt ]
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Beat and Tempo: Tracking and Analysis
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Week 4
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Dixon, S. (2001). Automatic Extraction of Tempo and Beat from Expressive Performances. Journal of New Music Research, 30(1):39-58. [ PDF ] presentation: [ bhattacharjee ] reports: [ bhattacharjee, rajagopal, ramasamy govindaraju, schankler ]
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(Feb 2)
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Download Dixon's BeatRoot software (requires Java 1.5 or higher). Beat tracking examples.
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Dixon, S. & Widmer, G. MATCH: A Music Alignment Tool Chest. In Proceedings of the 6th Intl Conf on Music Information Retrieval, London, UK, 492-497. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lakshminarayanan ] reports: [ bhattacharjee, highfill, rajagopal ]
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Download Dixon's MATCH software (Java, any platform), or the Sonic Visualiser MATCH Vamp plugin.
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HOMEWORK 3B: Using MATCH, comparing performances [ txt ]
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Week 5
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Timmers, R., Ashley, R, Desain, P, and Heijink, H. (2000). The influence of musical context on tempo rubato. Journal of New Music Research 29(2):131-158 [ HTML ]
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(Feb 9)
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Cammuri, A., Mazzarino, B., Ricchetti, M., Timmers, R., and Volpe, G. (2004). Multimodal Analysis of Expressive Gesture in Music and Dance Performances. In Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2915. Read the Introduction (p.20-22), Section 4 (p.30-37) [ PDF ]
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Timmers, R. (2005). Predicting the similarity between expressive performances of music from measurements of tempo and dynamics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117(1): 391-399 [ PDF ] presentation: [ schankler ]
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Tempo and Loudness: Visualization
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Week 6
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Langner J. & Goebl W. (2003). Visualizing Expressive Performance in Tempo-Loudness Space. Computer Music Journal, 27(4): 69-83. [ PDF ] presentation: [ yeh ]
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(Feb 16)
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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: [ highfill ]
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Week 7
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Grachten, M., Goebl, W., Flossmann, S., Widmer, W. (2009). Phase-plane Representation and Visualization of Gestural Structure in Expressive Timing. Journal of New Music Research, 38(2): 183-195. [ PDF ] presentation: [ li ]
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(Feb 23)
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Sapp, C. S. (2007). Comparative Analysis of Multiple Musical Performances. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. [ PDF ]
Sapp, C. S. (2008). Hybrid Numeric/Rank Similarity Metrics for Musical Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Information Retreival. [ PDF ] presentation: [ balajee ]
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Spiro, D., Gold, N, Rink, J. (2008). Plus Ça Change: Analyzing Performances of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. [ PDF ] presentation: [ rajagopal ]
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HOMEWORK 5B: Quantifying loudness [ txt ]
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Rhythm and Timing
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Week 8
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Collier, G. L. and Collier, J. L. (2002). A Study of Timing in Two Louis Armstrong Solos. Music Perception, 19(3): 463-483. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lakshminarayanan ]
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(Mar 2)
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Wright, M., Schloss, W. A., Tzanetakis, G. (2008). Analyzing Afro-Cuban Rhythm Using Rotation-Aware Dynamic Programming. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. [ PDF ] presentation: [ bhattacharjee ]
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Benadon, F. (2009). Time Warps in Early Jazz. Music Theory Spectrum, 31(1): 1-25. [ PDF ] presentation: [ yuan ]
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Week 9
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Friberg, A., and Sundstrom, A. (2002). Swing Ratios and Ensemble Timing in Jazz Performance: Evidence for a Common Rhythmic Pattern. Music Perception, 19(3): 333-349. [ PDF ] presentation: [ schankler ]
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(Mar 9)
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Lindsay, K. A. and Nordquist, P. R. (2006). A technical look at swing rhythm in music. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5): 3005-3005. [ PDF ] presentation: [ ramasamy govindaraju ]
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Dixon, S. and Gouyon, F. (2004). Towards Characterisation of Music via Rhythmic Patterns. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. [ PDF ] presentation: [ highfill ]
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Highlights: Accents and Stress
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Week 10
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Guest Speaker: Jeanne Bamberger on Performance, "What is Time - a hearing is a performance, a performance is a hearing"
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(Mar 25)
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Bamberger, J. (2006). What Develops in Musical Development? A View of Development As Learning. In G. MacPherson (ed.) The child as musician: Musical development from conception to adolescence. Oxford, U.K. Oxford University Press. [ PDF ]
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Examples [ HTML ] (passwd reqd): Moonlight Sonata Adagio by Barenboim, Pollini, Schnabel, Gould, Ashkenazy; Bach Cello Suite No. 2 (Gigue) by Casals, Ma.
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HOMEWORK 9B: Quantifying tempo-loudness [ txt ]
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Week 11
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What is musical accent or stress? See definition: [ HTML ]
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(Mar 30)
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Parncutt, R. (2003). Accents and expression in piano performance. In K. W. Niemoller (Ed.), Perspektiven und Methoden einer Systemischen Musikwissenschaft (Festschrift Fricke) 163-185. Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Peter Lang. [ PDF ] presentation: [ li ][ yeh ]
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Pfordresher, P. Q. (2003). The Role of Melodic and Rhythmic Accents in Musical Structure. Music Perception, 20(4): 431-464. [ PDF ]
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Week 12
(Apr 6)
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Project updates. Presentation on McGill Music Technology Program by Jordan Smith.
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Week 13
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Parncutt, R. (2003). Modelling durational accent in musical rhythm. In Proceedings of the 5th Triennial ESCOM Conference, 339-343. [ PDF ] presentation: [ balajee ]
Drake, C., Palmer, C. (1993). Perceptual and performed accents in musical sequences. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31:107-10. [ PDF ] presentation: [ balajee ]
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Phrasing / Grouping
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(Apr 15)
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Penel, A., Drake, C. (2004). Timing variations in music performance: Musical communication, perceptual compensation, and/or motor control? Perception & Psychophysics, 66(4): 545-562. [ PDF ] presentation: [ lakshminarayanan ]
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Cheng, E., and Chew, E. (2008). Quantitative Analysis of Phrasing Strategies in Expressive Performance: Computational Methods and Analysis of Performances of Unaccompanied Bach for Solo Violin. Journal of New Music Research, 37(4):325-338. [ PDF ]
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Week 14
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MacRitchie, J., Buck, B., Bailey, N. J. (2009). Visualizing Musical Structure through Performance Gesture. Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 237-242. [ PDF ] presentation: [ yuan ]
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(Apr 20)
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Raphael, C. (2009). Symbolic and Structural Representation of Melodic Expression. Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 555-560. [ PDF ] presentation: [ li ]
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Ensemble Coordination
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Week 15
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Jaffe, D. (1985). Ensemble Timing in Computer Music. Computer Music Journal, 9(4): 38-48. [ HTML ] presentation: [ highfill / ramasamygovindaraju ]
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(Apr 27)
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Maduell, M., and Wing, A. M. (2007). The dynamics of ensemble: the case for flamenco. Psychology of Music, 35:591-628. [ PDF ] presentation: [ schankler / yeh ]
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Chew, E., Sawchuk, A., Tanoue, C., Zimmermann, R. (2005). Segmental Tempo Analysis of Performances in Performer-Centered experiments in the Distributed Immersive Performance Project. In Proceedings of International Conference on Sound and Music Computing. [ PDF ]
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Bartlette, C., Headlam, D., Bocko, M., Velikic, G. (2006). Effect of Network Latency on Interactive Musical Performance. Music Perception, 24(1): 49-62. [ PDF ] presentation: [ bhattacharjee / rajagopal ]
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Final Projects (May 11)
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