Four Essays

Digitoitu 16. 10. 2008.

War Requiem op. 66

Digitoitu 5. 1. 2009

Descobrim els clarinetistes de Barcelona : de la segona meitat del segle XIX fins la Guerra Civil

La finalitat d’aquest Projecte Fi de Grau és descobrir els clarinetistes que hi havia a Barcelona des de la segona meitat del segle XIX fins a la Guerra Civil, tant a nivell d’intèrprets com a nivell de professors. A més, ens hem proposat conèixer en quines institucions educatives aquests professors impartien les seves classes, com l’Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona o el Conservatori del Liceu. Això ens ha portat, també, a identificar en quines agrupacions musicals desenvolupaven la seva carrera —com l’Orquestra Pau Casals, la Banda Municipal de Barcelona, l’Orquestra del Liceu o diferents orquestres de ball en les quals oferien concerts populars al llarg del territori. La metodologia utilitzada ha estat l'extracció i l’anàlisi de ressenyes hemerogràfiques i la recerca específica sobre la carrera artística del clarinetista que possiblement va realitzar a nivell estatal els primers enregistraments per a aquest instrument: en Josep Nori.

Bowing the violin : a case study for auditory-motor pattern modelling in the context of music performance

This project addresses methodological and technological challenges in the development of multi-modal data acquisition and analysis methods for the representation of instrumental playing technique in music performance through auditory-motor patterning models. The case study is violin playing: a multi-modal database of violin performances has been constructed by recording different musicians while playing short exercises on different violins. The exercise set and recording protocol have been designed to sample the space defined by dynamics (from piano to forte) and tone (from sul tasto to sul ponticello), for each bow stroke type being played on each of the four strings (three different pitches per string) at two different tempi. The data, containing audio, video, and motion capture streams, has been processed and segmented to facilitate upcoming analyses. From the acquired motion data, the positions of the instrument string ends and the bow hair ribbon ends are tracked and processed to obtain a number of bowing descriptors suited for a detailed description and analysis of the bow motion patterns taking place during performance. Likewise, a number of sound perceptual attributes are computed from the audio streams. Besides the methodology and the implementation of a number of data acquisition tools, this project introduces preliminary results from analyzing bowing technique on a multi-modal violin performance database that is unique in its class. A further contribution of this project is the data itself, which will be made available to the scientific community through the repovizz platform.

Tule surma

Soitinnus: lauluääni, piano.

N:o 1: Morning

Soitinnus: orkesteri.

N:o 2: The death of Ase

Soitinnus: orkesteri.

[Aina uskollinen]

Soitinnus: puhallinorkesteri.

[Aaria oopperasta Martha]

Soitinnus: lauluääni (tenori), orkesteri.

[Valssi sarjasta Naamiaiset]

Soitinnus: orkesteri.

[Kiinalaisessa temppelipuutarhassa]

Soitinnus: orkesteri.

[Ukkonen]

Soitinnus: puhallinorkesteri.

[Kapteeni (marssi)]

Soitinnus: puhallinorkesteri.

[Korkeakoulukadetit]

Soitinnus: puhallinorkesteri.

Tiroler sind lustig

Soitinnus: lauluääni, orkesteri.