
	Where results make sense

Topic: Musical structure

Related Topics

Musical genre

country music

pop music

classical music

folk music

heavy metal music

rock music

electronic music

musical instruments

popular music

list of years in music

soul music

In the News (Wed 19 Jun 13)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Stephen McAdams: Psychological constraints on form-bearing dimensions in music (Contemporary Music Review, 1989). ...
		In raising the question of form-bearing dimension in music, we are trying to understand the possibilities and limits of the apprehension musical form in terms of the psychological mechanisms that operate on a received acoustic structure.
		Some music theorists propose a relatively restricted lexicon of pitch patterns that are the "genetic code" from which melodies are built (Narmour, this volume; in press), or that are a kind of archetypal substructure from which melodies are elaborated (Meyer's "melodic process", 1973).
		Musical events, after passing through elementary grouping processes, are then processed in such a way as to recover aspects of their larger-scale structure.
	www.zainea.com /mcadams.htm (9160 words)

	A protein primer: a musical introduction to protein structure
		Primary structure is represented in the protein data bases by a string of the single letters, like a long word or sentence.
		The lower and higher solubility R groups are represented by different voices so that the musical phrases are divided into two groups: one group consists of the hydrophobic amino acids (lower pitches) and the other group consists of the hydrophilic (higher pitches) amino acids.
		Musical transformations are also useful for demonstrating evolutionary improvisation -- the minor changes that occur in the proteins of two lineages after they become genetically discontinuous, i.e.
	www.whozoo.org /mac/Music/Primer/Primer_index.htm (1951 words)

	Musical Patterns
		Every single piece of music could be considered a [language] unto itself; so we are apparently discussing simultaneously, the metasyntax and metasemantics of music, in terms of its mathematized structures.
		The actual process of composing music is very complicated as it involves integrating all levels of organization, where any given level can be designated (parameterized) by a time of duration; from the duration of a pitch or rest up to the time duration of the entire composition.
		This structure involving a group of transformations acting on two levels to produce rows that determine a magic square is then the foundation of a three movement concerto for orchestra, of a most delicate and ethereal texture that lasts for all of about nine minutes.
	graham.main.nc.us /~bhammel/MUSIC/compose.html (11620 words)

	Dynamic representation of musical structure
		Music provides a rich source of data, generated by a natural human activity, in which complex sequential and temporal relationships abound.
		Understanding how musical structure may be coded as dynamic patterns of activation in artificial neural networks is the goal of this dissertation.
		The first is the acquisition and representation of structural relationships among events, important in representing sequences with long distance temporal dependencies, and in learning structured systems of communication.
	digitalcommons.fau.edu /faculty_dissertations/AAI9505246 (297 words)

	Graceful Timing: the relationship between tempo, timing and musical structure in the execution of grace notes in ...
		An experiment is reported which investigates the relationship between musical structure, predictions from the performance practice literature, and the timing of 11 grace notes in 45 performances of a short Beethoven piano piece at a range of tempi.
		Psychological studies of music performance have also suggested many ways of conceptualizing the mental representation of musical structures and their role in controlling and structuring temporal, dynamic and timbral variations in performances.
		The most important of these is that although musical structure may have an important influence upon their execution, such structural constraints cannot alone explain the differences we find in the relative length of grace notes, and do not seem to play a role in the changes in their execution at different tempi.
	cf.hum.uva.nl /mmm/papers/wadht-1/wadht-1.html (7249 words)

	Mid-Level Music Making (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Musical structure has various layers of complexity in any composition and these various layers exist in a continuum ranging from the micro (small) level, the mid (intermediate) level, to the macro (large) level of musical structure.
		When relating musical phrases to melodic lines, it is important to realize that while melodies are comprised of complete phrases of patterned tones, each individual melodic phrase may be broken down into smaller incomplete units of melodic structure known as motives.
		In sum, the micro level or musical structure is comprised of two units — the smaller and incomplete motive, and the larger and complete phrase.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/arts/music/elements/midlevel.htm (802 words)

	Musical structure, shifting perspectives and composition
		My understanding of the historical side of computer music in Norway is easy to summarise, if not completely accurate: some composers experimented with both tape and electronic techniques from 1970's to early 90's, and then decided that pure instrumental music was either more enjoyable, or more successful with the funding bodies.
		The aim was for spatialisation to describe the natural and physical sources as integral aspects of the musical structure.
		These trajectories were musically used to succeed lengthy avalanches, and in effect lead out of the climactic activity that had built up in the critical system.
	cec.concordia.ca /econtact/wea2/MusicalStructure.htm (3604 words)

	COGNITION
		In the double stream theory of music developed by the author (1989,1990) to encompass these phenomena, music is regarded as embodying two simultaneous streams, one stream the repetitive and hierarchical pulse, the other the evolving, emotionally meaningful 'story' of the music.
		With increasing musical astuteness, it turns out that subjects attribute the pulses correctly to the right music in spite of alienating factors: joyful music of Beethoven is preferred with a Beethoven pulse rather than with a Haydn pulse, for example, even though the Haydn pulse itself has joyous aspects which the Beethoven pulse has not.
		In the musical interaction of pulse and structure, structure is represented by the musical design and by bar structure, from which the hierarchical pulse configuration is elucidated (stream one).
	www.microsoundmusic.com /clynes/cognit.htm (13035 words)

	Ask E.T.: Display of musical structure
		TimeSketch is a commercial software package for displaying musical form.
		Stockhausen often invented new notations to adequately represent his music, and since 1970 directly manages publishing of his works.
		Oskar Fischinger, a painter and animator, who did some fascinating experimental films mixing music and abstract animations.
	www.edwardtufte.com /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000MB&topic_id=1 (1600 words)

	Dynamic Reresentation of Musical Structure (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		42 Induction of multiscale temporal structure - Mozer - 1992
		17 The rhythmic structure of music (context) - Cooper, Meyer - 1960
		2 The psychological representation of musical pitch in a tonal..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /82190.html (1730 words)

	Analyzing Musical Structure and Performance---A Statistical Approach, Jan Beran, Guerino Mazzola
		Musical performance theory and the theory of musical structure in general is a rapidly developing field of musicology that has wide practical implications.
		In spite of this, up to the present, applications of statistical methods to music have been rare and mostly limited to a formal confirmation of results obtained by other methods.
		The present paper introduces a statistical approach to the analysis of metric, melodic and harmonic structures of a score and their influence on musical performance.
	projecteuclid.org /getRecord?id=euclid.ss/1009211806 (689 words)

	frey » Blog Archive » Musical structure - build, climax, drop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Today in my Sonic Arts class we were discussing acousmatic music, and one of the things that came up was the possibility for acousmatic music to be music freed from the tension/release ‘emotional’ structure of Western music (classical and pop).
		The emotional structure of the music seems flat to us as Western listeners (of course it isn’t, it’s just a different way of listening — but that is one of the things that acousmatic music is about exploring, and why it sometimes gets ‘unemotional’ or ‘dead’ criticisms levelled at it).
		I’ve always loved the music of Gas and Rhythm &; Sound for this very reason, and I still believe these are territories that haven’t been fully mined, and as such are rich for further exploration.
	www.frey.co.nz /2006/03/14/musical-structure-build-climax-drop (857 words)

	Lisp as second language
		While newly designed languages accepted recursion as control structure, Lisp was augmented with 'down-to-earth' and well-known iterative control structures, since it was recognized that in some cases it is simpler for humans to use instead of recursion (See chapter nil: imperative style).
		They were structure preserving, and thus a transformation of a sequence would always yield a sequence.
		Thus not numbers or musical structures are passed upward as result of the transformation on sub-structures, but functions that can draw the sub-structure when given a start time.
	cf.hum.uva.nl /mmm/papers/lisp2nd/functional.html (6697 words)

	Free Term Papers on Musical Structure in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
		Musical Structure in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
		In his attempts to reflect the spirit of this music, and the spirit of the people who performed and listened to it, Hughes applied musical technique and structure to his poetry, as well as colloquial expression.
		It reminds me of attending a musical performance, and being very into either the rhythm, beat or lyrics, and then you hear that one note that just takes you there; that one note that doesn’t belong in there, and because it doesn’t, it fits perfectly, like a John Coltrane saxophone screech in between the melody.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/1087.html (632 words)

	Analysis of Musical Structure
		Prerequisite: MU 322, Music Theory IV with a grade of "C" or higher.
		Homework assignments not turned in at the class meeting for which they were assigned are subject to a 5 point penalty for each class they are late.
		Students are responsible for all material presented in each class and in the text and for handing in assignments on time, whether they are present or absent.
	www.dpo.uab.edu /~clemmons/theory/455syl.html (347 words)

	Expressive Relations between Timing, Tempo, and Musical Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It first considers in a general way the issues and methodologies of a music-research that focuses on music performances with expression as the central concern.
		In the end, the aim is to have better insight into the way skilled musicians perform music with timing and tempo variations.
		The hypotheses is that timing patterns are flexible to a limited extent and reflect the pianist's musical interpretation and expressive strategy.
	www.nici.kun.nl /Projects/p72 (173 words)

	Music Composer Classical Essays -- A Feminist Journey through Beethoven's Musical Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This study stretches such investigations to include questions of historical context and philosophic motivations that drive a composer to structure music in a certain way.
		Music of the 1700s is often characterized as highly structured and balanced.
		A favorite form for pieces of many kinds was the sonata form, which relies heavily on the basic movement between different tonalities (especially tonic and dominant or relative major).
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=26582 (1615 words)

	Induction and Recapitulation of Deep Musical Structure - Spector, Alpern (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In this paper we describe new work on the use of connectionist techniques to automatically induce musical structure from a corpus.
		musical field we can already find several systems that resort to automatic evaluation (e.g.
		20 Music and Connectionism (context) - Todd - 1991
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /5111.html (487 words)

	ECS EPrints Service - On Hyperstructure and Musical Structure
		In this paper we report on an ongoing investigation into the relationship between musical structure and hyperstructure, based on a series of open hypermedia systems research projects that have featured case studies involving musical content.
		We provide a general overview of the intersection between hypermedia and musical structure, drawing also on ideas from narrative structure.
		Through the example systems we consider techniques for building hyperstructure from musical structure and, conversely, building musical structure from hyperstructure.
	eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk /6538 (209 words)

	Amazon.com: African Polyphony and Polyrhythm : Musical Structure and Methodology: Books: Gyorgy Ligeti,Simha ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, the book is both an examination of the fundamental musical principles in African music and a practical guide for those involved in the recording of oral polyphonic musics.
		There is a large section in which he shares the results of his musical analysis--specifically, the ways in which he categorizes African music based on their rhythmic activity.
		As a graduate student in music theory I found this book very helpful in my research and analysis of composers who try to emulate the rhythmic structures and phenomena found in African music.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052124160X?v=glance (822 words)

	Represention of Musical Structure
		Composite classes may require internal structures to be updated if a slot value changes.
		Some slots in an event are declared to be output parameters that produce values in musical output.
		Common Music predefines several event classes to use with synthesis languages such as CLM, CSound and MIDI.
	www.notam02.no /internt/cm-sys/cm-2.2/doc/ref/objects.html (1133 words)

	Musical Structure ana Design by Cedric Thorpe Davie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cedric Thorpe Davie is himself a noted composer, and musical forms are as familiar to him as armatures are to the sculptor.
		Experienced musicians, both professional and amateur, and students will find the author’s thoughtful, well-written discussions of the controversial aspects of formal analysis extremely perceptive and stimulating.
		Beginning music lovers, even those with little or no training in music, will come away from a thorough reading of this book with a good knowledge of each important musical form, and with a greatly increased insight into the way music is organized.
	www.midi-classics.com /p1440.htm (289 words)

	JCSS: Automatic detection of musical structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The relentless advance of computational power allows examination of ever more complex and imprecisely-specified issues.
		We discuss the investigation of one such issue through the MPEG-7 toolchain for representing multimedia, focusing particularly on issues of cognitive and musical interest and specifically on detection of hierarchical structure in audio streams.
		We present a comparison of results with the structure identified by an expert human listener, and discuss the scientific and technological applications.
	www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk /jcss/talks/2005-03-10 (71 words)

	Amazon.ca: African Polyphony and Polyrhythm : Musical Structure and Methodology: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		African Polyphony and Polyrhythm : Musical Structure and Methodology
		Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, Simha Arom develops a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm.
		Through a systematic breakdown of the many layers of apparently improvised rhythm he reveals the essential structure which underlies this rich and complex music.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521616018 (266 words)

	The Shape of Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question.
		The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see--literally--the shape of any composition available on the Web.
		The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the crystalline beauty of Philip Glass.
	turbulence.org /Works/song (213 words)

	Amazon.ca: Musical structure and performance: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Be the first person to review this item.
		Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical >; Composers > Brahms, Johannes
		Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical >; Composers > Debussy, Claude
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300043279 (151 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)