4 papers
On Every Note a Griff: Looking for a Useful Representation of Basso Continuo Performance Style
Adam Štefunko, Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón, Jan Hajič
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…
Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora
Jan Hajič, Fabian Moss
A major locus of musicological activity-increasingly in the digital domain-is the cataloguing of sources, which requires large-scale and long-lasting research collaborations. Yet,…
Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
Šimon Libřický, Jan Hajič
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
Vojtěch Lanz, Jan Hajič
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…