A Perceiver-Centered Approach for Representing and Annotating Prosodic Functions in Performed Music.

ABSTRACT: Musical prosody is characterized by the acoustic variations that make music expressive. However, few systematic and scalable studies exist on the function it serves or on effective tools to carry out such studies. To address this gap, we introduce a novel approach to capturing information about prosodic functions through a citizen science paradigm. In typical bottom-up approaches to studying musical prosody, acoustic properties in performed music and basic musical structures such as accents and phrases are mapped to prosodic functions, namely segmentation and prominence. In contrast, our top-down, human-centered method puts listener annotations of musical prosodic functions first, to analyze the connection between these functions, the underlying musical structures, and acoustic properties.

SUBMITTER: Bedoya D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9355529 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature