Week 5 (12 Feb 2003): Pitch Spelling and Local Key-Finding

1. Student summaries of the class.

2. Intervals
   
   
   • Review ( reference found by Shivani Yardi )
   
   

3. Pitch-Spelling
   
   
   • "Automatic Pitch Spelling: From Numbers to Sharps and Flats" by Cambouropoulos E. (2001). In Proceedings of the VIII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music.

     ( Presentation by Phillip Wu -- PPT )

   • "Mapping MIDI to the Spiral Array: Disambiguating Pitch Spellings" by Chew E., Chen Y.-C. (2003). In Proceedings of the 8th INFORMS Computer Society Conference.

     ( Presentation by Yun-Ching Chen -- PPT )

4. Listening for boundaries
   
   • "Minuet in G" by J.S. Bach [ SCORE: JPG | HTML (SIB) ]
   • "Variations WoO78" by Ludwig van Beethoven [ SCORE: JPG | HTML (SIB) ]

   Reference:

   • "An Algorithm for Determining Key Boundaries." [ PDF ]
     by Elaine Chew. In Proceedings of the 2nd Intl Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence (2002).

   Presentation:

   • "Localized Key-Finding: Algorithms and Applications."
     by Shmulevich, I., Yli-Harja, O. (2000) Music Perception, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 531-544.

     ( Presentation by Arpi Mardirossian -- PPT )

     Examples: J.S.Bach's Two-Part Invention in F major, Prelude in C minor from WTCII
     ( MIDI files can be found at kunstderfuge.com )

5. Assigned Readings (handed out in class)
   
   
   • Notes on
     "Linguistics and the Computer Analysis of Tonal Harmony."
     by Terry Winograd (1968). Re-printed in Stephan Schwanauer and David Levitt (Eds.),
     Machine Models of Music, MIT Press, 1993, pp. 113-153.

Posted 12 Feb 2003.