13 articles in this issue
Daniel Müllensiefen,Daniel Shanahan
No abstract available.
Reinhard Kopiez,Anna Wolf,Friedrich Platz
This study investigates the influence of an actual music stand on the evaluation of a videotaped audio-visual solo instrumental performance. Previous research has provided evidence that the presence of a score or music stand (obstructing the audience's vi... see more
Bruno Gingras
Kopiez et al. (this volume) empirically investigated the effect of playing from memory (more specifically, playing with a conspicuously visible music stand) on the evaluation of audiovisual recordings of solo instrumental performances. Their study, a repl... see more
Christopher White
Recent corpus analyses have provided evidence for interactions between tonal and metric hierarchies by illustrating that tonally stable pitches occur disproportionately often on strong metrical positions while tonally unstable pitches occur more frequentl... see more
David Temperley
The following is a commentary of Christopher White's article on tonal stability and metrical accents.
Massimo Zicari
This paper explores the extent of expressive tempo modifications as a function of textual content in four operatic arias recorded by Adelina Patti between 1905 and 1906. Their analysis made it possible to determine to what extent significant tempo modific... see more
Jaan Ross
In this commentary, statistical and sound signal segmentation methods as applied in Massimo Zicari's "Expressive tempo modifications in Adelina Patti's recordings: An integrated approach" are discussed. A potential method of further analyzing the obtained... see more
Lukas Huisman,Bruno Gingras,Geert Dhondt,Marc Leman
Scores of complex, 20th century, solo piano pieces can be difficult to perform and may even include elements that are physically impossible to play. This article investigates the role of music notation in the Opus Clavicembalisticum of Sorabji, which is a... see more
Dorottya Fabian
Reflecting on a study that examines the impact of various editions on the speed of learning and performance errors, this short paper notes the crudeness of western music notation and how musicians cope with deciphering the composer's musical intentions. D... see more
Jennifer MacRitchie
Rehearsing a new contemporary notated piano score often requires the performer to dedicate a large amount of time to translating the notation: tasks may include interpreting new symbols, or old symbols in new contexts, learning new extended techniques, an... see more
Ben Duinker,Denis Martin
The notion of a musical repertoire's "sound" is frequently evoked in journalism and scholarship, but what parameters comprise such a sound? This question is addressed through a statistically-driven corpus analysis of hip-hop music released during the genr... see more
Jonah Katz
Duinker and Martin's excellent study presents a wealth of new data, findings, and analyses. It represents a welcome focus on the details of musical aspects of hip-hop, as well as an effort to combine those details with more global aspects of recordings in... see more
Peter M. C. Harrison