Markov-switching state space models for uncovering musical interpretation

DOI10.1214/21-AOAS1457zbMATH Open1478.62380arXiv1907.06244OpenAlexW3202007072MaRDI QIDQ2247457FDOQ2247457

Authors: Daniel J. McDonald, Michael McBride, Yupeng Gu, Christopher Raphael 

Publication date: 17 November 2021

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For concertgoers, musical interpretation is the most important factor in determining whether or not we enjoy a classical performance. Every performance includes mistakes---intonation issues, a lost note, an unpleasant sound---but these are all easily forgotten (or unnoticed) when a performer engages her audience, imbuing a piece with novel emotional content beyond the vague instructions inscribed on the printed page. While music teachers use imagery or heuristic guidelines to motivate interpretive decisions, combining these vague instructions to create a convincing performance remains the domain of the performer, subject to the whims of the moment, technical fluency, and taste. In this research, we use data from the CHARM Mazurka Project---forty-six professional recordings of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 63 No. 3 by consumate artists---with the goal of elucidating musically interpretable performance decisions. Using information on the inter-onset intervals of the note attacks in the recordings, we apply functional data analysis techniques enriched with prior information gained from music theory to discover relevant features and perform hierarchical clustering. The resulting clusters suggest methods for informing music instruction, discovering listening preferences, and analyzing performances.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06244

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zbMATH Keywords

Kalman filterhidden Markov modelclassification and clustering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Markov processes: hypothesis testing (62M02) Inference from stochastic processes and prediction (62M20) Applications of statistics (62P99)

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• R
• Rcpp
• tidyverse
• batchtools
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