Future component systems will require that components can be composed exibly. In contrast to current systems which only support a xed set of composition mechanisms, the component system should provide a composition language in which users can deene their own speciic composers. It is argued for an object-oriented setting that this will be possible by meta-programming the class-graph. Composers w...

The modern movable-Do solmization system based on syllables devised by Guido d'Arezzo was modified and pieced together over centuries by various scholars and pedagogues, each with their own rationale. To date, considerations of the movable-Do system have not sufficiently examined the effects of the vowels contained within its solfège syllables. While vowels have been thoroughly analyzed among v...

OBJECTIVE To report a patient with genetically proven DYT1 dystonia who shows dramatic improvement in symptoms while playing the piano. DESIGN Case study. SETTING Sobell Department for Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, University College London, England. PATIENT A 49-year-old right-handed male civil servant. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The patient was videotap...

This paper presents our experiences with the use of feed forward neural networks for piano chord recognition and polyphonic piano music transcription. Our final goal is to build a transcription system that would transcribe polyphonic piano music over the entire piano range. The central part of our system uses neural networks acting as pattern recognisers and extracting notes from the source aud...

This letter reports basic acoustic phenomena related to part-pedaling in the piano. With part-pedaling, the piano tone can be divided into three distinct time intervals: initial free vibration, damper-string interaction, and final free vibration. Varying the distance of the damper from the string, the acoustic signal and the damper acceleration were measured for several piano tones. During the ...

The evolutionary processes in the field of musical notation, which characterize second half 20th century, reflected main trend individualization styles. large-scale development new instrumental techniques and technologies for synthesis electronic sound processing stimulated further a notation system as one means visualizing idea. Marco Stroppa, leading composers modern Europe, made significant ...

OBJECTIVE To examine how auditory brain responses change with increased spectral complexity of sounds in musicians and non-musicians. METHODS Event-related potentials (ERPs) and fields (ERFs) to binaural piano tones were measured in musicians and non-musicians. The stimuli were C4 piano tones and a pure sine tone of the C4 fundamental frequency (f0). The first piano tone contained f0 and the ...

Audiovisual perception and imitation are essential for musical learning and skill acquisition. We compared professional pianists to musically naive controls with fMRI while observing piano playing finger-hand movements and serial finger-thumb opposition movements both with and without synchronous piano sound. Pianists showed stronger activations within a fronto-parieto-temporal network while ob...