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Technology of interpretation and expressive pulses

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Music, Gestalt, and Computing (JIC 1996)

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Musical performance is considered from the points of view of interpretation and nuance, the former requiring mainly analytical, the latter technical skills. Interpretation is understood as finding a structure in a musical text by its segmentation and determining the relation between Gestalt segments. Nuancing is understood as a means of showing the segments by intonation patterns. A system of rules has been developed which aim to do segmentation and the First Movement of Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in G major (Op.3 No.3) is taken as an example of how to use the analysis-based method for the interpretation. The interpretation has been realized both by a computer and by a violin pupil appropriately instructed.

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Tanguiane, A. (1997). Technology of interpretation and expressive pulses. In: Leman, M. (eds) Music, Gestalt, and Computing. JIC 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0034129

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