This paper presents an exploration of the ontological shift from musical materials (i.e. melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, timbre, register) to activities in music performance analysis. The “dogmas” extend Herbert H. Clark’s conceptual framework for the study of joint activity in language use to explore music performance in the WAM tradition. A systematic analysis of London Symphony Orchestra m...

This paper examines how the limitations of working memory affect the perception of hierarchical tonal structures. Within this context, it proposes some modifications to Lerdahl’s tonal tension model in order to better explain certain experimental data. Data from a study on the perception of musical tension were analyzed using regression analysis that took into account various parameters includi...

Most music processing attempts to focus on one particular feature or structural element such as pitch, beat location, tempo, or genre. This hierarchical approach, in which music is separated into elements that are analyzed independently, is convenient for the scientific researcher, but is at odds with intuition about music perception. Music is interconnected at many levels, and the interplay of...

Harmony is a process by which some property of a trigger segment spreads onto one or more undergoer segments. In some languages, any segment that bears a harmonizing property will trigger harmony, while in others some segments bearing that property will trigger harmony while others will not. This paper examines such cases in the nasal vowelconsonant harmony systems of several Malayo-Polynesian....

In this research, the modal parameters of a beam in free-free condition are extracted by performing different experiments in laboratory. For this purpose, two different techniques are employed. The first methodology is considered as a time domain method in Operational Modal Analysis. While the other one is frequency domain impact hammer test which is categorized as an Experimental Modal Analysi...

We propose the novel audio feature structural change for the analysis and visualisation of recorded music, and argue that it is related to a particular notion of musical complexity. Structural change is a meta feature that can be calculated from an arbitrary frame-wise basis feature, with each element in the structural change feature vector representing the change of the basis feature at a diff...

Low-level aspects of music audio such as timbre, loudness and pitch, can be relatively well modelled by features extracted from short-time windows. Higher-level aspects such as melody, harmony, phrasing and rhythm, on the other hand, are salient only at larger timescales and require a better representation of time dynamics. For various music information retrieval tasks, one would benefit from m...