An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation
We are exploring the relationship between accents and expression in piano performance. Accents are local events that attract a listener’s attention and are either evident from the score (immanent) or added by the performer (performed). Immanent accents are associated with grouping (phrasing), met...
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2013-10-01
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| description | We are exploring the relationship between accents and expression in piano performance.
Accents are local events that attract a listener’s attention and are either
evident from the score (immanent) or added by the performer (performed). Immanent
accents are associated with grouping (phrasing), metre, melody and harmony.
In piano music, performed accents involve changes in timing, dynamics, articulation,
and pedalling; they vary in amplitude, form, and duration. We analyzed the
first eight bars of Chopin Prelude op. 28 n. 6. In a separate study, music theorists
had marked grouping, melodic and harmonic accents on the score and estimated the
importance (salience) of each. Here, we mathematically modeled timing and dynamics
in the prelude in two ways using Director Musices (DM) – a software package
for automatic rendering of expressive performance. The first rendering focused on
phrasing following existing and tested procedures in DM. The second focused on accents
– timing and dynamics in the vicinity of the accents identified by the theorists.
In an informal listening test, 10 out of 12 participants (5 of 6 musicians and 5 of
6 non-musicians) preferred the accent-based formulation, and several stated that it
had more variation of timing and dynamics from one phrase to the next. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-53fb81cf00d741b0bd67c5a520694b382025-08-20T03:50:48ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2013-10-01362An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory EvaluationErica BISESI0Richard PARNCUTT1University of Graz Center for Systematic MusicologyUniversity of Graz Center for Systematic MusicologyWe are exploring the relationship between accents and expression in piano performance. Accents are local events that attract a listener’s attention and are either evident from the score (immanent) or added by the performer (performed). Immanent accents are associated with grouping (phrasing), metre, melody and harmony. In piano music, performed accents involve changes in timing, dynamics, articulation, and pedalling; they vary in amplitude, form, and duration. We analyzed the first eight bars of Chopin Prelude op. 28 n. 6. In a separate study, music theorists had marked grouping, melodic and harmonic accents on the score and estimated the importance (salience) of each. Here, we mathematically modeled timing and dynamics in the prelude in two ways using Director Musices (DM) – a software package for automatic rendering of expressive performance. The first rendering focused on phrasing following existing and tested procedures in DM. The second focused on accents – timing and dynamics in the vicinity of the accents identified by the theorists. In an informal listening test, 10 out of 12 participants (5 of 6 musicians and 5 of 6 non-musicians) preferred the accent-based formulation, and several stated that it had more variation of timing and dynamics from one phrase to the next.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/179piano performanceexpressionaccentsmusical analysisDirector Musices |
| spellingShingle | Erica BISESI Richard PARNCUTT An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation Archives of Acoustics piano performance expression accents musical analysis Director Musices |
| title | An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation |
| title_full | An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation |
| title_short | An Accent-Based Approach to Automatic Rendering of Piano Performance: Preliminary Auditory Evaluation |
| title_sort | accent based approach to automatic rendering of piano performance preliminary auditory evaluation |
| topic | piano performance expression accents musical analysis Director Musices |
| url | https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/179 |
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