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Identifying Peking Opera Roles Through Vocal Timbre: An Acoustical and Conceptual Comparison Between and

open access: yesMusic & Science
Chinese jingju (Peking opera) typically distinguishes several stock character types differentiated by narrative function, appearance, and vocal timbre.
Annie Y. Liu, Zachary Wallmark
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Stochastic Configuration Networks Ensemble for Large-Scale Data Analytics

open access: yes, 2017
This paper presents a fast decorrelated neuro-ensemble with heterogeneous features for large-scale data analytics, where stochastic configuration networks (SCNs) are employed as base learner models and the well-known negative correlation learning (NCL ...
Cui, Caihao, Wang, Dianhui
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The expression and production of piano timbre : gestural control and technique, perception and verbalisation in the context of piano performance and practice

open access: yes, 2013
La version intégrale de cette thèse est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude interdisciplinaire et syste ...
Bernays, Michel
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Music in our ears: the biological bases of musical timbre perception.

open access: yesPLoS Computational Biology, 2012
Timbre is the attribute of sound that allows humans and other animals to distinguish among different sound sources. Studies based on psychophysical judgments of musical timbre, ecological analyses of sound's physical characteristics as well as machine ...
Kailash Patil   +3 more
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Conceptualisation et communication des nuances de timbre à la guitare classique

open access: yes, 2013
La version intégrale de cette thèse est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).La problématique de cette thèse concerne le lexique descripteur de timbre, ses
Lavoie, Maryse
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Spectral pitch distance and microtonal melodies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We present an experiment designed to test the effectiveness of spectral pitch distance at modeling the degree of “affinity” or “fit” of pairs of successively played tones or chords (spectral pitch distance is the cosine distance between salience-weighted,
Laney, Robin   +3 more
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Scat Singing: A Timbral and Phonemic Analysis

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2001
In this article William Bauer analyzes scat and timbre within the context of Jazz and their effects on music over time. He concludes that for many vocalists timbre is much more than a vehicle for adding coloristic touches to a melodic line.
William R. Bauer
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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Audio Features Affected by Music Expressiveness

open access: yes, 2016
Within a Music Information Retrieval perspective, the goal of the study presented here is to investigate the impact on sound features of the musician's affective intention, namely when trying to intentionally convey emotional contents via expressiveness.
Barthet M.   +8 more
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Reflections on sound timbre definitions

open access: yesArchives of Acoustics, 2014
The article is concerned with systematic classification of concepts and terms in acoustics. Special attention is attached to definitions of timbre. The article presents a review of definitions of timbre published in the literature.
Marianna SANKIEWICZ, Gustaw BUDZYŃSKI
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