The traditional consideration of architectural history as a linear process, where one style successively replaces another, still dominates, but does not explain many phenomena. V.S. Goryunov substantiated fundamentally different, non-linear model the historical process in architecture on basis 19th – early 20th centuries. V. S. and M. P. Tubli proposed stylistic polyphony with introduction conc...

This paper presents a novel system for multi-pitch tracking, i.e. estimate the pitch trajectory of each monophonic source in a mixture of harmonic sounds. The system consists of two stages: multi-pitch estimation and pitch trajectory formation. In the first stage, we propose a new approach based on modeling spectral peaks and non-peak regions to estimate pitches and polyphony in each single fra...

Composing interactive music using score following, requires tight coordination and several round trips between many tools to write the score to follow, and to author the electronic actions, and assess their synchronisation. In addition, at performance time, the score-following must be monitored to ensure proper execution. Unifying composition and performance phases provides composers and electr...

The traditional rules of voice-leading in Western music are explicated using experimentally established perceptual principles. Six core principles are shown to account for the majority of voice-leading rules given in historical and contemporary music theory tracts. These principles are treated in a manner akin to axioms in a formal system from which the traditional rules of voice-leading are de...

In this paper we examine the retrieval performance of adjacent and concurrent n-grams generated from polyphonic music data. We deploy a method to index polyphonic music using a word position indexer with the n-gram approach. Using all possible combinations of monophonic sequences from polyphonic music data, “overlaying” word locations within a document are obtained, such as needed with polyphon...

The field of human-computer interaction is rapidly expanding. Alongside the extensive technological developments that are currently taking place, is the emergence of a ‘cottage industry’ culture, where a polyphony of new theories, methods and concerns have been imported into the field from a diversity of disciplines and backgrounds. An extensive critique of recent theoretical developments is pr...

The notions of ‘voice’, as well as, homophony and polyphony, are thought to be well understood by musicians. Listeners are thought to be capable of perceiving multiple ‘voices’ in music. However, there exists no systematic theory that describes how ‘voices’ can be identified, especially, when polyphonic and homophonic elements are mixed together. The paper presents different views of what ‘voic...

In this work, a new estimator of the fundamental frequencies (F0) present in a polyphonic single-channel signal is developed. The signal is modeled in terms of a set of discrete partials obtained by the Complex Continuous Wavelet Transform (CCWT). The fundamental frequency estimation is based on the energy distribution of the detected partials of the input signal followed by an spectral smoothn...

As a result of massive digitization efforts and the world wide web, there is an exploding amount of available digital data describing and representing music at various semantic levels and in diverse formats. For example, in the case of the Beatles songs, there are numerous recordings including an increasing number of cover songs and arrangements as well as MIDI data and other symbolic music rep...

In the past years many approaches have been developed that target the separation of polyphonic music material into independent source signals. Due to lack of information on the original signals it is currently practically impossible to extract the original waveforms from their mixture. Thus all of the approaches target the reconstruction of signals that are at least in some way close to the ori...