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YQX Plays Chopin

A computer program is to play two piano pieces that it has never seen before in an “expressive” way (that is, by shaping tempo, timing, dynamics, and articulation in such a way that the performances sound “musical” or “human”). The two pieces were composed specifically for the occasion by Professor N.N. One is in the style of nocturnes by Frederic Chopin, the other is in a style resembling Moza...

Chopin ’ s Nocturnes and Entropy

It is an oft-quoted fact that there is much in common between the fields of music and mathematics. This paper seeks to examine that commonality through the use of information theory techniques, specifically, entropy as defined by Shannon. The analysis will be presented through the process of creating an entropy table for a collection of Chopin’s Nocturnes. The method for generating a random str...

The long suffering of Frederic Chopin, revisited.

a comparison of linguistic and pragmatic knowledge: a case of iranian learners of english

در این تحقیق دانش زبانشناسی و کاربردشناسی زبان آموزان ایرانی در سطح بالای متوسط مقایسه شد. 50 دانش آموز با سابقه آموزشی مشابه از شش آموزشگاه زبان مختلف در دو آزمون دانش زبانشناسی و آزمون دانش گفتار شناسی زبان انگلیسی شرکت کردند که سوالات هر دو تست توسط محقق تهیه شده بود. همچنین در این تحقیق کارایی کتابهای آموزشی زبان در فراهم آوردن درون داد کافی برای زبان آموزان ایرانی به عنوان هدف جانبی تحقیق ...

Three Levels of Tune-

This paper proposes that to understand various issues concerning tune-text alignment, three levels of timing relations need to be recognized, namely, underlying association, target synchronization, and surface alignment. While the link between underlying association and target synchronization may be stipulated by various phonological rules, the link between surface alignment and target synchron...