Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site harvard.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!macrakis From: macrakis@harvard.UUCP (Stavros Macrakis) Newsgroups: net.music.synth,net.music.classical,net.music Subject: Re: Measuring pianists Message-ID: <657@harvard.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 17:59:19 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.657 Posted: Tue Jan 28 17:59:19 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jan-86 06:13:07 EST References: <632@harvard.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Comp. Lab., Harvard Lines: 58 Keywords: experiment, performance, music analysis Xref: watmath net.music.synth:854 net.music.classical:1679 net.music:11627 Summary: Results of inquiry. I asked for references on the measurement of actual piano performances. Since there was some interest in the results, I am posting them. I have not yet read any of these articles. Dick Cooper of U Canterbury (NZ) -- currently at U Kent (UK) -- (remc@ukc.uucp) answered my original question: the New Zealand researcher was his colleague MR Lamb then of the U Canterbury (NZ) (now CSRG, Toronto?), and the paper was `Tchaikovsky Meets the Computer' IJMMS 10:5:593 '78. Michael Hauser of U Texas (hi.hauser@mcc.arpa, hauser@sally.utexas.edu) drew my attention to an article by LH Shaffer, `Performances of Chopin...: Studies in Motor Programming' Cognitive Psy 13:327 '81. Hauser is working on Intelligent CAI of Musical Keyboard Skills. Based on these two references, I did a quick citation search in the Arts and Humanities ('80-) and Social Sciences ('76-) Citation Indices. I have only included those results that seem relevant. Note that I have not by any means done an exhaustive search; for instance, I have not used the Science Citation Index or other indices. Shaffer appears to be the major contributor to this field, with a long string of publications, the most recent of which appears to be `Timing in Solo and Duet Piano Performances' Quart. J Experiment. Psy.-A 36:4:577 '84. Also, `Timing in Musical Performance', Ann. NY Acad. 423(May)420. Lamb has published little, but see J. Computer-Based Instruction 5:30 '78. Another worker at Canterbury, WH Tucker et al. published `Interactive Aid for Musicians' IJMMS 9(6)635 '77. Another contributor to the field is JA Sloboda of the Univ. of Keele, UK : `Communication of Musical Meter in Piano Performance' Quart. J Experiment. Psy.-A 35(May)377 '83. S has written a review article, `Experimental Studies of Music Reading' Music Percept. 2(2)222 '84, which should be very useful, and a book, <> '85, reviewed in Nature 315(6021)696. See also S's `Music Performance' in <> Academic Press '82; `Some Aspects of Rhetoric and Exposition in ... Satie...' Music Percept. 2(3)299 '85(?). Finally, D. Gross wrote `Computer Projects in Musical Analysis' and `A Computer-Assisted Music Course' in <> Lexington Books '81. It appears that most of the researchers, except for Shaffer, started with instructional goals, but became interested in analysis along the way. Gross, Tucker, and Hauser (unpublished) all seem to be basically interested in instruction; Shaffer in cognitive psychology. -s Stavros Macrakis Center for Research in Computing Technology Harvard University IJMMS = Intl. J. Man-Machine Systems