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Multimodal datasets for studying expert performances of musical scores
Multimodal datasets are datasets that provide multiple complementary streams of data corresponding to different recording modalities. In the context of music performance, a multimodal dataset might include modalities such as audio, musical scores, motion-capture data, physiological data, performer biography data, and so on. Collecting such diverse data can greatly expand the range of research questions we can ask about musical performance, especially those that look outside the details of note onsets and offsets and connect more widely with contextual attributes of the composition, performer, and performance.
This paper provides a comprehensive review of existing multimodal datasets for studying expert performances of musical scores. It provides a detailed organisation scheme for categorising these datasets, and identifies key challenges remaining for the collection of such datasets.
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2026
- Modeling individual differences in chord pleasantness judgments Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Watch this space: primitive visual cues enhance sight-reading accuracy Musicae Scientiae
- What music do people use for mood regulation? Psychology of Music (Forthcoming)
2025
- melody-features: A Python Package for Symbolic Melody Analysis Conference: Digital Music Research Network 20
- Deconstructing jazz piano style using machine learning arXiv
- Effect of timbre on Goodness-of-Fit ratings of short chord sequences Music Perception
- GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
- How constraints on editing affects cultural evolution arXiv
- Interpersonal neural synchrony in joint music-making and conversation: toward an integrative Marr-level account PsyArXiv
- Intersubjectivity in performance The Music Performer's Lived Experiences
- Multimodal datasets for studying expert performances of musical scores Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
- Reverberation time and musical emotion in recorded music listening Music Perception
- The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes Psychology of Music
2024
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- Exploring the variability of musical-emotional expression over historical time Empirical Musicology Review
- Jazz Trio Database: Automated timing annotation of jazz piano trio recordings processed using audio source separation Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
- Perception of chord sequences modeled with prediction by partial matching, voice-leading distance, and spectral pitch-class similarity Music & Science
- Rhythmic qualities of jazz improvisation predict performer identity and style in source-separated audio recordings Royal Society Open Science
- Singers' realizations of linguistic tone in Chaozhou song Ethnomusicology
- The association between liking, learning and creativity in music Scientific Reports
- Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales Nature Communications
- Tones shape notes: The realisation of lexical tones in Chaozhou songs Psychology of Music
- Trade-offs in coordination strategies for duet jazz performances subject to network delay and jitter Music Perception
2023
- Expression of antenatal symptoms of common mental disorders in The Gambia and the UK BMJ Open
- Handedness and musicality in secondary school students Music Perception
- Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution Current Biology
- Music in the digital age: commodity, community, communion AI & Society
- Perception of rhythmic agency for conversational labeling Human-Computer Interaction
- Perspectives on musical care throughout the life course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network Musicae Scientiae
- Sharing uncertainty: Music in humanistic and scientific understandings Musicae Scientiae
- Task-irrelevant auditory metre shapes visuomotor sequential learning Psychological Research
2022
- A case study investigating the interaction between tuba acoustic radiation patterns and performance spaces Audio Engineering Society Convention 153
- A functional magnetic resonance imaging examination of audiovisual observation of a point-light string quartet using intersubject correlation and physical feature analysis Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Back to basics: A re-evaluation of the relevance of imprinting in the genesis of Bowlby's attachment theory Frontiers in Psychology
- Music, memory and narrative: The art of telling in Tale of Tales Animation
- Reconsidering empathy: An interpersonal approach and participatory arts in the medical humanities The Medical/Health Humanities-Politics, Programs, and Pedagogies
- REPP: A robust cross-platform solution for online sensorimotor synchronization experiments Behavior Research Methods
- The associations between music training, musical working memory, and visuospatial working memory: an opportunity for causal modeling Music Perception
- VoiceMe: Personalized voice generation in TTS Interspeech 2022
2021
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- Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space Interspeech 2021
- Reassessing syntax-related ERP components using popular music chord sequences: A model-based approach Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Three questions concerning consonance perception Music Perception
2020
- PPM-Decay: A computational model of auditory prediction with memory decay PLoS Computational Biology
- A Computational Cognitive Model for the Analysis and Generation of Voice Leadings Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Auditory but not audiovisual cues lead to higher neural sensitivity to the statistical regularities of an unfamiliar musical style Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- From learning to creativity: Identifying the behavioural and neural correlates of learning to predict human judgements of musical creativity NeuroImage
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- Long-term implicit memory for sequential auditory patterns in humans eLife
- psychTestR: An R package for designing and conducting behavioural psychological experiments The Journal of Open Source Software
- Simultaneous consonance in music perception and composition Psychological Review
2019
- Uncertainty and surprise jointly predict musical pleasure and amygdala, hippocampus, and auditory cortex activity Current Biology
- Reward prediction tells us less than expected about musical pleasure Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- The mistuning perception test: A new measurement instrument Behavior Research Methods
2018
- An energy-based generative sequence model for testing sensory theories of Western harmony Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
- Development and validation of the computerised adaptive beat alignment test (CA-BAT) Scientific Reports
- Dissociating sensory and cognitive theories of harmony perception through computational modeling Proceedings of ICMPC15/ESCOM10
2016
- Modelling melodic discrimination tests: Descriptive and explanatory approaches Journal of New Music Research
