Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Software-Based Extraction of Objective Parameters from Music Performances

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dc.contributor Institute for audio communication
dc.creator Lerch, Alexander
dc.date 2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
dc.date 2016-06-27T19:04:11Z
dc.date 2008-11-17
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-03T07:27:03Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-03T07:27:03Z
dc.identifier eprint:384
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71624
dc.identifier http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/volltexte/2008/2067/
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281965
dc.description Different music performances of the same score may significantly differ from each other. It is obvious that not only the composer’s work, the score, defines the listener’s music experience, but that the music performance itself is an integral part of this experience. Music performers use the information contained in the score, but interpret, transform or add to this information.Four parameter classes can be used to describe a performance objectively: tempo and timing, loudness, timbre and pitch. Each class contains a multitude of individual parameters that are at the performers’ disposal to generate a unique physical rendition of musical ideas.The extraction of such objective parameters is one of the difficulties in music performance research. This work presents an approach to the software-based extraction of tempo and timing, loudness and timbre parameters from audio files to provide a tool for the automatic parameter extraction from music performances.The system is applied to extract data from 21 string quartet performances and a detailed analysis of the extracted data is presented. The main contributions of this thesis are the adaptation and development of signal processing approaches to performance parameter extraction and the presentation and discussion of string quartet performances of a movement of Beethoven’s late String Quartet op. 130.
dc.format 179 pages
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dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher Technischen Universität Berlin
dc.rights In Copyright
dc.rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject T1
dc.subject M1
dc.title Software-Based Extraction of Objective Parameters from Music Performances
dc.type Dissertation


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