| HAA-281007-21 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College | AMPACT: Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit | 9/1/2021 - 6/30/2024 | $100,000.00 | Johanna | Catriona | Devaney | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College | Brooklyn | NY | 11210-2850 | USA | 2021 | Music History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Digital Humanities | 100000 | 0 | 100000 | 0 | A suite of tools to enable the computational analysis of musical performances.
This project proposes to further develop a suite of automatic software tools for quantitatively analyzing musical performances for which a corresponding musical score is available, entitled the Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). Musical performance is an interesting focus of study because, unlike musical scores, a traditional object of study, the performance is what listeners actually hear. A musical performance can convey both the musicians’ interpretation of the written score as well as emphasize, or even manipulate, the emotional content of the music through small variations in timing, dynamics, and tuning. Historically, studies of recorded musical performance have made use of manual techniques, but their laboriousness limited the number of performances that could be studied and the observations that could be made. The automatic tools provided by AMPACT facilitate much larger-scale investigations than are possible with manual annotation methods. |
| HD-228966-15 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Ohio State University | Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT) | 5/1/2015 - 10/31/2017 | $59,843.00 | Johanna | Catriona | Devaney | | | | Ohio State University | Columbus | OH | 43210-1349 | USA | 2015 | Music History and Criticism | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 59843 | 0 | 59843 | 0 | The further development of a suite of analytical tools for music scholarship, with a particular focus on the development of a tool for analyzing polyphonic performances from musical scores.
This project proposes to develop a core technology for a suite of automatic software tools for quantitatively analyzing musical performances for which a corresponding musical score is available and an encoding format for storing the analyses, entitled the Automatic Music Performance and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). A musical performance can convey both the musicians' interpretation of the written score as well as emphasize, or even manipulate, the emotional content of the music through small variations in timing, dynamics, and tuning. The target audience for AMPACT is music scholars are who are interested in performing empirical analyses of recorded performances but who lack the technical skills or the time necessary to develop their own tools or implement existing algorithms. The proposed project will allow the researchers to develop an algorithm for analyzing polyphonic performances for which musical scores are available. |