Rhythm and Transforms

• Main Author: Sethares, William A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Music.; Neurosciences.; Biomathematics.; Acoustical engineering.; Engineering Acoustics.; Engineering, general.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.

People quite naturally identify the rhythmic structure of music as they tap their feet and sway in time with the beat. Underlying such mundane motions is an act of cognition that is not easily reproduced in a computer program or automated by machine. Rhythm and Transforms asks (and answers) the ques...

Table of Contents:

• What is Rhythm?
• Visualizing and Conceptualizing Rhythm
• Varieties of Rhythmic Experience
• Auditory Perception
• Transforms
• Adaptive Oscillators
• Statistical Models
• Automated Rhythm Analysis
• Beat-based Signal Processing
• Musical Composition and Recomposition
• Musical Analysis via Feature Scores
• Speculations, Interpretations, Conclusions.