Research efforts concerned with the implementation of reliable computer-based score followers were first presented at the 1984 International Computer Music Conference independently by Roger Dannenberg and Barry Vercoe. Over the past ten years, much has been done to advance the accuracy and reliability of such systems and yet, little of this development has integrated new or existing ideas concerning the tracking of a performer's rhythm. The research undertaken in this study has attempted to suggest one possibility for such an integration through the design and implementation of a prototype score follower that uses temporal patterns from a live performer as its primary information to determine score location. The simultaneous tracking of pitch information provides an alternate performer position when temporal pattern prediction fails. Testing of the system was performed on both monophonic and polyphonic works spanning four musical eras.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.26350 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Vantomme, Jason D. (Jason Drew) |
| Contributors | Pennycook, Bruce (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Faculty of Music.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001442174, proquestno: MM99945, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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