Essays about: "melodies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word melodies.

  1. 1. Time Signatures in Modern Music

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Musikhögskolan i Malmö

    Author : Gonçalo Alexandre Soares Rodrigues; [2023]
    Keywords : Time signatures; Free Notation; Modern Music; Witold Lutosławski; György Ligeti; composition; quantitative qualitative rhythm; Performing Arts;

    Abstract : In the beginning of the 20th Century with the emergence of a new musical language as the Second Viennese School (Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern) took over, suddenly music pushed forward and away from traditional harmony, rhythm and even notation. Music started to lose its traditional feel of patterns, cadences and regularity and instead embraced new complexity, as composers started to avoid time signature patterns, tonal melodies, and harmonies. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Gunnlod Dataset : Engineering a dataset for multi-modal music generation

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emil Johansson; Joel Lindgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Computer generated music; machine learning; musical instrument digital interfaces; ethics;

    Abstract : This report details the creation of a new dataset named the Gunnlod dataset (after the Norse giantess who guarded the mead of poetry) for use in research in the field of machine learning as applied to music creation, particularly multi-modal music in the MIDI format of symbolic music representation. The dataset is based on a subset of approximately four fifths of the Lakh MIDI dataset. READ MORE

  4. 3. Circuit design and hardware implementation of an analog synthesizer

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för materialvetenskap

    Author : Olle Murhed; [2023]
    Keywords : synthesizer; analogue; circuit design; sound; sound synthesis; oscillator; VCO; filter; amplifier; sequencer; control voltage; breadboard;

    Abstract : Since the heyday of analogue synthesizers in the 70's, they have largely been replaced by digital hardware and software synthesizers. However, in recent years, there has been a revival in analogue designs, possibly due to its ``warmer" sound. READ MORE

  5. 4. Being Present with the Sound of Shakuhachi : Finding Tools for Composing Through Improvisation by Using Non-linearity to Focus on Time and Timbre on the Shakuhachi

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för folkmusik

    Author : Sakari Heikka; [2023]
    Keywords : shakuhachi; compositional methods; improvisation; Japan; timbre; non-linearity; micro-phenomenology; silence;

    Abstract : The main goal of this thesis was to develop tools and methods for creating new music for the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi. Shakuhachi is an end-blown bamboo flute, which has existed in Japan since the seventh century. READ MORE

  6. 5. Teaching an Agent to Replicate Melodies by Listening : A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Generating Piano Rolls and Parameters of Physically Modeled Instruments from Target Audios

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Wille Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : Reinforcement Learning; Music Informatics; Audio Processing; Physical Models; Instruments; Förstärkningsinlärning; Musikinformatik; Ljudbehandling; Fysiska modeller; Instrument;

    Abstract : Reinforcement learning has seen great improvements in recent years, with new frameworks and algorithms continually being developed. Some efforts have also been made to incorporate this method into music in various ways. READ MORE