This paper a) examines the nature of creative thinking in musical improvisation, b) examines music teachers 'confidence in their inprovisation abilities and c) proposes a model for teaching stylistic improvisation. First, factor analysis of improvisations of college jazz singers indicates that divergent thinking, as exemplified through variety, originality and elaboration of musical ideas, is l...

Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based on conditioned RNN language model, where the desired content as well as the stylistic parameters serve as conditioning contexts. We demonstrate the approach o...

This paper might be described as an attempt to discuss a practical methodology based on Pedagogic Stylistic approach for the teaching of literature as subject in undergraduate /Post graduate classes in India. It is also significant that we need to examine how a stylistic approach for the teaching of literature is of particular value for the study of literature as a subject in India's ESL situat...

The Trlcon program has been adapted as an aid to the analysis of syntax in poetry with the hope of identifying the dominant patterns that characterize a poet's style. The Trlcon program (described in Concordances from Com~ , S.M.Lamb and L.Gould, University of Callf0~nia, ey,1964)has three active lines which this researcher has used for text, syntactic analysis (following a phrase-str~cture gra...

Stylistic animation and rendering approaches intentionally produce output that diverges from physical reality in order to enhance the quality of graphical output. In this paper, we discuss the domain of stylistic animation, with particular emphasis on techniques for stylising dynamics and motion synthesis. We present a survey of previous work and introduce some of the major issues in stylised a...

Introduction We are currently conducting systematic analyses of Japanese prime ministers’ Diet addresses after World War II. In addition to the analyses of the content of the addresses, stylistic analysis can be used to clarify the changing language usages of prime ministers and how these reflect their personal or individual styles. This study indicates that stylistic methods are useful for his...

The goal of this paper is to compare a set of distance/similarity measures, some motivated statistically, others motivated stylistically, regarding their ability to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of these distance/similarity functions to capture stylistic similarity between texts, we have tested them in the two most frequently employed multivariate statistical...