Music Performance Analysis: A Survey
Abstract
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tends to focus on the analysis of audio signals. Often, a single music recording is used as representative of a "song" even though different performances of the same song may reveal different properties. A performance is distinct in many ways from a (arguably more abstract) representation of a "song," "piece," or musical score. The characteristics of the (recorded) performance -- as opposed to the score or musical idea -- can have a major impact on how a listener perceives music. The analysis of music performance, however, has been traditionally only a peripheral topic for the MIR research community. This paper surveys the field of Music Performance Analysis (MPA) from various perspectives, discusses its significance to the field of MIR, and points out opportunities for future research in this field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.00178,
title = {Music Performance Analysis: A Survey},
author = {Alexander Lerch and Claire Arthur and Ashis Pati and Siddharth Gururani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00178},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
To be published in: Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Delft, 2019