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This research focuses on identifying and modelling performers’ preferred strategies for achieving expressive performances. This paper reports on the results of analysis of a professional pianist’s practice session of Chopin’s 2nd Ballade, Op. 38. The analysis focused on his approach to balance voices within polyphonic texture. The model for balance of voices is a weighted average of several renditions of the excerpt. Differences of average balance of voices are statistically significant, which suggests that each voice varies around a preferred, overall balance. Tukey HSD reveals that each of the four voices of the excerpt (beginning of the musical work) had been performed within an independent dynamic range. New models representing similar renditions were created using clustering techniques. Those models can then be transformed into new, reshaped performances.
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Yamaguchi, R., Gualda, F. (2013). (Re)Shaping Musical Gesture: Modelling Voice Balance and Overall Dynamics Contour. In: Aramaki, M., Barthet, M., Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S. (eds) From Sounds to Music and Emotions. CMMR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7900. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41248-6_26
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