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Score Following With Hidden Tempo Using A Switching State-Space Model, Yucong Jiang, Chris Raphael
Score Following With Hidden Tempo Using A Switching State-Space Model, Yucong Jiang, Chris Raphael
Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications
A score-following program traces the notes in a musical score during a performance. This capability is essential to many meaningful applications that synchronize audio with a score in an on-line fashion. Existing algorithms often stumble on certain difficult cases, one of which is piano music. This paper presents a new method to tackle such cases. The method treats tempo as a variable rather than a constant (with constraints), allowing the program to adapt to live performance variations. This is first expressed by a Kalman filter model at the note level, and then by an almost equivalent switching state-space model at …
The Composing Of "Musick" In The English Language: The Development Of The English Cantata, 1700-1750, Jennifer Cable
The Composing Of "Musick" In The English Language: The Development Of The English Cantata, 1700-1750, Jennifer Cable
Music Faculty Publications
The cantata as cultivated by Alessandro Scarlatti and his contemporaries Alessandro Stradella and Giovanni Bononcini was the model for the early development of the English cantata, "which remained a solo vocal genre in England throughout the eighteenth century, namely 1710-1800. By focusing on specific musical elements, such as cantata format (recitative-aria-recitative-aria or aria-recitative-aria), song forms, motivic use, textual content, instrumental requirements and performance venues, the evolution of the English cantata can be observed during the first half of the eighteenth century, developing from a simple imitation of the Italian form to a genre in its own right.1