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Distinguishable musical dynamics

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1989
Loudness changes, which composers specify by musical dynamics pp, p, mp, mf, f, and ff, make music exciting. The goal of this study is a usable and rational specification of an “acceptable” dynamic range for musicians. Requiring that a note at one dynamic level be at least s dB more intense than nearby notes at the next-lower dynamic level leads to a ...
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The dynamics of musical strings

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1991
The resonance contours of a number of musical strings have been traced when operating in isolation from an instrument body, with more precisely defined loading and terminal conditions than are found in normal use, and with very small excitation amplitudes.
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The dynamics of dynamics: A model of musical expression

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1992
A computational model of musical dynamics is proposed that complements an earlier model of expressive timing. The model, implemented in the artificial intelligence language LISP, is based on the observation that a musical phrase is often indicated by a crescendo/decrescendo shape.
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Musical Skin: A Dynamic Interface for Musical Performance

2011
Compared to pop music, the audience of classical music has decreased dramatically. Reasons might be the way of communication between classic music and its audience that depends on vocal expression such as timbre, rhythm and melody in the performance. The fine details of classic music as well its implied emotion among the notes become implicit to the ...
Heng Jiang, Teng-Wen Chang, Cha-Lin Liu
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Musical Automata as Dynamical Systems

Adaptive Behavior, 2006
This paper explores the use of dynamical systems as a framework for understanding how musically autonomous behavior can be achieved in artifact. Just as dynamics has offered a breakout strategy for the perceived limitations of artificial intelligence, so too can dynamics offer a solution to the current limitations of autonomous generative music ...
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A dynamical approach to music analysis

Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2012
It is possible to identify significant units of a piece of music, like salient motifs or tonally prominent pitch classes, by looking at the stable states of suitably defined dynamic systems associated with the piece and analytical paradigms assigned to the piece.
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Isolating the dynamic attributes of musical timbrea)

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1993
Three experiments examined the dynamic attributes of timbre by evaluating the role of onsets in similarity judgments. In separate experiments, subjects heard complete orchestral instrument tones, the onsets of those tones, and tones with the onsets removed (‘‘remainders’’).
Paul Iverson, Carol L. Krumhansl
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Symmetries and dynamics of musical scales

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001
Configurational potential energy, as well as complexity, may be used as a measure for musical scales. To show this, complexities C(n) and energies E(n) of equally tempered scales with the interval structure n={n1,n2,...,nM} for N=12 semitones and M=7 notes are compared. Complexity is the sum of sharps and flats in a scale.
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EEG dynamics during music appreciation

2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009
This study explores the electroencephalographic (EEG) correlates of emotions during music listening. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used to correlate EEG features with complex music appreciation. This study also applies machine-leaning algorithms to demonstrate the feasibility of classifying EEG dynamics in four subjectively-reported emotional ...
Tzyy-Ping Jung, Yuan-Pin Lin, Jyh-Horng Chen   +2 more
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A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Music

Journal of Musicology, 1997
Any analytical approach makes a claim about the nature of its object and what is important in it. It is appropriate therefore for me to preface my advocacy of a dynamical systems approach to the analysis of music with a brief statement of my own view of music, concentrating on two points.
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