5 papers
A Flexible Encoding Model for Non-Unique Note Alignments
Suhit Chiruthapudi, Adam Å tefunko, Silvan Peter +3
Symbolic music alignment links notes in a symbolic performance to their counterparts in a score. While existing alignment encoding formats provide unique correspondences between th…
Making Chant Computing Easy: CantusCorpus v1.0 and the PyCantus Library
Anna DvoÅáková, Tim Eipert, Debra Lacoste +1
Digital Gregorian chant scholarship has for decades enjoyed the privilege of a large digital resource cataloguing chant sources: the Cantus ecosystem, with nearly 900,000 chants ca…
On Every Note a Griff: Looking for a Useful Representation of Basso Continuo Performance Style
Adam Å tefunko, Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón, Jan HajiÄ
Basso continuo is a baroque improvisatory accompaniment style which involves improvising multiple parts above a given bass line in a musical score on a harpsichord or organ. Basso…
Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
Å imon LibÅický, Jan HajiÄ
In learning music, difficulty is an important factor in choice of repertoire, choice of tempo, and structure of practice. These choices are typically done with the guidance of a te…
Gregorian melody, modality, and memory: Segmenting chant with Bayesian nonparametrics
VojtÄch Lanz, Jan HajiÄ
The idea that Gregorian melodies are constructed from some vocabulary of segments has long been a part of chant scholarship. This so-called "centonisation" theory has received much…