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Showing 1 to 20 of 3260 for “"Musical"”.
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Musical sound information : musical gestures and embedding synthesis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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Measuring musical interaction: analysing communication in embodied musical behaviour
… and necessity of embodied interaction to musical activity, using video analysis to observe communication in musical events. Through the specific study of classical North Indian instrumental duo performance, the thesis examines how processes of social interaction may inform human musical …
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Musical Aptitude, Personality Traits, and Perception of Musical Elements
… to examine the relationships between measures of musical aptitude, general intelligence, the personality traits of psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism, and muscial achievement among elementary school children. Content analyses of Silver Burdett Music (1974), Discovering
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Automatic recognition of Persian musical modes in audio musical signals
… for computational identification of Persian musical modes. This involves constructing a database of audio musical files and developing computer algorithms to perform a musical analysis of the samples. Essential features, the spectral average, chroma, and pitch histograms, and the use of …
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Exploring Musical Composition
Music has always been an important part of my life. For the last ten years it has been a driving force that not only helps me pay my bills, but also allows me never ending possibilities of personal expression. During my two summers at the Creative Pulse I was able to explore various avenues in the …
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Exploring Musical Composition
Music has always been an important part of my life. For the last ten years it has been a driving force that not only helps me pay my bills, but also allows me never ending possibilities of personal expression. During my two summers at the Creative Pulse I was able to explore various avenues in the …
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Representing musical knowledge
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Musical interfaces : design and construction of physical manipulatives for musical composition
Currently, musical composition is considered to be a high-level skill that is inaccessible to young children. There is a "high floor" for children who want to create a piece of music because they must learn a way of recording and remembering the notes, their sequence, etc, such as musical notation. …
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The virtual-musical other: creating unique worlds through musical sound in videogames
… it cannot in others. In this work, I analyze the musical approaches in three post-apocalyptic videogames, Borderlands, Bastion, and Fallout 3. In these games, the eclectic musical approach aims to evoke an ambiguity and originality achieved through digital production using synthetic and …
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Score instruments : a new paradigm of musical instruments to guide musical wonderers
Advancements in technology have made musical instruments, especially electronic instruments, accessible to the masses. As a result, music-making has become more widespread and convenient. However, the blackboxing practices of commercial Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) have conditioned many users …
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Musical expression and performance
This study examines the philosophical question of how it is possible to appreciate music<br/>aesthetically as an expressive art form. First it examines a number of general theories<br/>that seek to make sense of expressiveness as a characteristic of music that can be<br/>considered relevant to our …
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Musical composition graduate portfolio
1 PDF file (1 volume (unpaged))
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Functional Reactive Musical Performers
… players are chosen over computer performers. Musical performance is an area in which personalization is more important than consistency. Human players play with each other, reacting to phrases and ideas created by the players that they are playing with. Computer performers lack the ability to …
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Interaction in musical time
… mind/brain, the body, the social context, and musical instruments should be included in the analytical framework. In general, this means studying cognition and behaviour at settings that are as naturalistic as possible. Music and dance are ideal domains for studying these phenomena, as …
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Hypercompression : stochastic musical processing
… music theory In Hypercompression, Stochastic Musical Processing we explore the design and implementation of three innovative musical projects that build on a deep vertical integration of science and technology in different ways: Stochastic Tempo Modulation, Reflection Visualizer, and …
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Explorations in musical tinkering
This thesis introduces the idea of "musical tinkering," exploring how to engage people in playfully creating and experimenting with their own musical instruments and compositions. I discuss the design and study of two new tools for musical tinkering, MelodyMorph and MaKey MaKey. MelodyMorph is an …
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Understanding the Process of Musical Cognition for Maximizing the Excellence of Individual Musical Performance
… bring to light relevant studies and research on musical cognition in classical music performance that can be fruitfully utilized by professional performers in order to help augment excellence in performance. Because the nature of music performance is multifaceted, it is necessary to look at the …
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Signal separation of musical instruments: simulation-based methods for musical signal decomposition and transcription
… thesis presents techniques for the modelling of musical signals, with particular regard to monophonic and polyphonic pitch estimation. Musical signals are modelled as a set of notes, each comprising of a set of harmonically-related sinusoids. An hierarchical model is presented that is very …
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Musical swarm robot simulation strategies
… is to determine the legibility of the motion to musical mappings and evaluate user preferences for the mappings and modes of interaction in problem solving and in open-ended contexts. The findings suggest that typical users of a swarm robot system do not necessarily prefer more inherently legible …
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Automatic identification of musical schemata
This study was stimulated by the Galant musical schemata theory (GMST), an example–based learning and compositional practice that peaked in popularity around the early 18th century in Europe, suggesting a culturally–defined classification of polyphonic patterns. Under the premises of the GMST and …
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