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- OFAI-TR-2006-01 (
570kB PDF file)Perceptual Smoothness of Tempo in Expressively Performed Music
- Simon Dixon, Werner Goebl, Emilios Cambouropoulos
- We report three experiments examining the perception
of tempo in expressively performed classical piano music.
Each experiment investigates beat and tempo perception in a
different way: rating the correspondence of a click
track to a musical excerpt with which it was simultaneously presented;
graphically marking the positions of the beats using an interactive
computer program; and tapping in time with the musical excerpts.
We examine the relationship between the timing of individual tones, that is,
the directly measurable temporal information, and the timing of beats
as perceived by listeners.
Many computational models of beat tracking assume that beats correspond
with the onset of musical tones.
We introduce a model, supported by the experimental results, in which the beat
times are given by a curve calculated from the tone onset times that is
smoother (less irregular) than the tempo curve of the onsets.
Keywords: Rhythm, Beat Tracking, Music Perception
- We report three experiments examining the perception
of tempo in expressively performed classical piano music.
Each experiment investigates beat and tempo perception in a
different way: rating the correspondence of a click
track to a musical excerpt with which it was simultaneously presented;
graphically marking the positions of the beats using an interactive
computer program; and tapping in time with the musical excerpts.
We examine the relationship between the timing of individual tones, that is,
the directly measurable temporal information, and the timing of beats
as perceived by listeners.
Many computational models of beat tracking assume that beats correspond
with the onset of musical tones.
We introduce a model, supported by the experimental results, in which the beat
times are given by a curve calculated from the tone onset times that is
smoother (less irregular) than the tempo curve of the onsets.