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Centre for Music and Science

 

Many congratulations to the four CMS undergraduates who did music and science dissertations this term, and received a stellar set of marks, all high firsts: one 75, two 78s, and one 80!

  • Reuben Bance: Harmonic style classification of jazz pianists in a source-separated piano trio dataset
  • Zaki Lim: Exploring the emotional response to music-evoked nostalgia, and how the Big Five personality traits moderate this response
  • Maddie Jones: Music for mood regulation in Cambridge undergraduates
  • May Bui: In pursuit of robustness and performance in a modernised Query-by-Humming system

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New paper: Computational analysis of improvised music at scale

1 October 2024

Our new paper entitled “Jazz Trio Database: Automated Annotation of Jazz Piano Trio Recordings Processed Using Audio Source Separation” is just published in Transactions of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR). This paper arises from work completed by Huw Cheston during his PhD at the CMS, in...

New paper: Coordinating online music performances

1 October 2024

Our new paper entitled “Trade-offs in Coordination Strategies for Duet Jazz Performances Subject to Network Delay and Jitter” has just been published in Music Perception. This paper arises from work completed by Huw Cheston during the early stages of his PhD at the CMS, and was funded by an award from Cambridge Digital...

New paper: Consonance in the carillon

21 August 2024

Our new paper entitled 'Consonance in the carillon' has just been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. This paper grew out of an undergraduate dissertation by James MacConnachie. Well done James! The paper explores an interesting phenomenon whereby the idiosyncratic frequency spectrum of the...