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Re: [AUDITORY] Note durations in music



Ani, have you checked whether anything might be available on the ISMIR site (Music Information Retrieval), at http://www.ismir.net/?  If anything exists, it should be referenced somewhere there (you may have to plough through a fairly large number of papers to get to it!).
Best,
Ian

On 12/06/2013 21:07, Patel, Aniruddh D. wrote:

Dear list,

 

I’m trying to find papers which report measurements of two aspects of note duration in solo instrumental monophonic music (e.g., recordings of solo violin, cello, trumpet, clarinet, flute, etc. – not piano, guitar, or other instruments that can play multiple notes simultaneously).

 

1.       The average duration of notes in a piece

2.       A histogram of note durations in the piece

 

Thus for example this solo cello prelude by JS Bach last about 4 minutes and contains N notes (anybody know?), so the average note duration in this piece is about N/240 notes/sec.  

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLKjeEssAo

 

If one could measure the duration of each note in this recording, then one could plot the histogram of note durations in the piece.

 

Is anyone aware of such data for any solo monophonic instrument?  Musical style doesn’t matter (can be classical, folk, etc.). 

Thanks,

 

Ani Patel

 

 

Aniruddh D. Patel

Associate Professor

Dept. of Psychology
Tufts University

490 Boston Ave.

Medford, MA 02115

 

a.patel@xxxxxxxxx

http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/peoplePatel.htm

 

 

 

 


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Ian Cross
Director, Centre for Music & Science
Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge
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