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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Musical pitch"”.
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The cognitive organisation of musical pitch
… the idea that the rationales for the forms of pitch organisation employed within tonal music which have been adopted by music theorists have strongly affected those theorists` conceptions of music, and that it is of critical importance to music theory to investigate the potential origination of …
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History of musical pitch and its present condition in Boston
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1880
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Pitch Estimation of Musical Signals
Can a computer algorithm assess musical pitch with results analogous to those of a trained human musician? This thesis attempts to answer that question by demonstration. It starts by examining the nature of pitch, and human spectrotemporal perception of music. In pitch vibrato, the frequency varies …
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The auditory fingerprint : multidimensional characterization of individual pitch perception in musicians
… hearing functions, sound perception mode, musical instrument preference, performance style, as well as musical abilities such as absolute- and relative pitch perception or auditory imagery (audiation). However, relevant literature in the field regarding perceptual and psychophysical aspects …
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Quantitative phonetic and frequency domain characterization of vocal blend for sung vowels
… using frequency domain techniques. For a musical pitch, the presence of higher harmonics amplifies dissonant intervals, which are undesirable in a blended choral sound. Choral singers are taught to ''darken" their tones (reduce the amplitude of higher harmonics) and modify their vowels by …
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British Army Music in the Interwar Years: Culture, Performance, and Influence
… in the adoption of an international standard of musical pitch. Finally, it uncovers the effective role and soft power influence of British army bands and their music in the maintenance of British imperial authority, at home and overseas, and the tragic consequences of operating at the forefront …
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Synesthesia and Perfect Pitch: A Possible Connection?
… -- the mixing of senses -- and perfect pitch -- auditary recognition of a musical pitch -- are two separate phenomena, ways of experiencing the world. These perceptions have been misunderstood for many years. They have bugged psychologists for ages, and scientific breakthroughs have only …
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Neural ProbabilisticModels for Melody Prediction, Sequence Labelling and Classification
… played a role in the analysis and generation of musical information. Such models are of interest in computational musicology, computer-aided music composition, and tools for music education among other applications. This dissertation beginswith an experiment tomodel sequences of musical pitch in …
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Intonation and the Beginning Clarinetist
No abstract prepared.
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The effect of tonal pattern instruction on the singing voice development of first grade students
Thesis (M.M.)--Michigan State University. Department of Music, 2005
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Alto saxophone mouthpiece pitch and its relation to jazz and classical tone qualities
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Studies in pitch symmetry in twentieth century music
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Singing in Chaozhou: The Relationship between Tones and Songs
In tone languages, tone is the use of pitch to contrast word meanings; this raises questions of whether, and if so, in what ways and to what extent, the pitches and pitch patterns of tones are preserved when they are sung. This thesis explores the relationship between lexical tones and musical …
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An investigation of the relationship between singing intonation and string playing intonation among college level and professional string players
… direction of deviation for both played and sung pitches. The study included a 15 minute individual task after which subjects' intonation has been assessed in two dimensions: string performance intonation and singing performance intonation~ The participants were assigned an eight-measure singing …
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An Experiment in Teaching Perfect Pitch with Programmed Learning
… experiment dealing with the teaching of perfect pitch through programmed learning. The experiment was based on a similar study by Dr. Robert W. Lundin. An attempt was made to use equipment readily available in public schools, and to make the lessons as nearly self-teaching as possible.
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A Comparison of Aural and Visual Instructional Methodologies Designed to Improve the Intonation Accuracy of Seventh Grade Violin and Viola Instrumentalists.
… performance tasks: A, B, and C; (3) individual pitches (seven from each of the music tasks), and (4) differences between instrument groups: violin and viola. Sixty-eight seventh grade string students from three string classes of two middle schools were randomly assigned to two experimental …