6 papers
Spectrographic Portamento Gradient Analysis: A Quantitative Method for Historical Cello Recordings with Application to Beethoven's Piano and Cello Sonatas, 1930--2012
Ignasi Sole
Portamento in string performance has been studied primarily as a binary presence-or-absence phenomenon, with existing research measuring frequency of occurrence and, less commonly,…
Towards Revised Tempo Indications for Beethoven's Piano and Cello Sonatas: Czerny, Moscheles, Kolisch, and Recorded Practice 1930-2012
Ignasi Sole
Historical metronome indications for Beethoven's five piano and cello sonatas (as transmitted by Czerny, Moscheles, and Kolisch), have long been regarded as problematic by performe…
A Complementary Visualisation Suite for Empirical Performance Analysis: Tempographs, Histograms, Ridgeline Plots, Stacked Bar Charts, and Combination Charts Applied to Beethoven's Piano and Cello Sonatas
Ignasi Sole
The choice of visualisation in empirical performance analysis is not a neutral presentation decision but an analytical one: different graphical forms reveal different features of t…
Coexisting Tempo Traditions in Beethoven's Piano and Cello Sonatas: A K-means Clustering Analysis of Recorded Performances, 1930-2012
Ignasi Sole
Empirical studies of recorded performance have conventionally modelled tempo change as a unidirectional historical process, fitting linear regression lines to tempo data plotted ag…
A Manual Bar-by-Bar Tempo Measurement Protocol for Polyphonic Chamber Music Recordings: Design, Validation, and Application to Beethoven's Piano and Cello Sonatas
Ignasi Sole
Empirical performance analysis depends on the accurate extraction of tempo data from recordings, yet standard computational tools, designed for monophonic audio or modern studio co…
Evolving Performance Practices in Beethoven's Cello Sonatas: Tempo, Portamento, and Historical Interpretation of the First Movements
Ignasi Sole
This paper examines the evolving performance practices of Ludwig van Beethoven's cello sonatas, with a particular focus on tempo and portamento between 1930 and 2012. It integrates…