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VAT-SNet: A Convolutional Music-Separation Network Based on Vocal and Accompaniment Time-Domain Features
The study of separating the vocal from the accompaniment in single-channel music is foundational and critical in the field of music information retrieval (MIR). Mainstream music-separation methods are usually based on the frequency-domain characteristics of music signals, and the phase information of the music is lost during time–frequency decomposition. In recent years, deep learning models based on speech time-domain signals, such as Conv-TasNet, have shown great potential. However, for the vocal and accompaniment separation problem, there is no suitable time-domain music-separation model. Since the vocal and the accompaniment in music have a higher synergy and similarity than the voices of two speakers in speech, separating the vocal and accompaniment using a speech-separation model is not ideal. Based on this, we propose VAT-SNet; this optimizes the network structure of Conv-TasNet, which sets sample-level convolution in the encoder and decoder to preserve deep acoustic features, and takes vocal embedding and accompaniment embedding generated by the auxiliary network as references to improve the purity of the separation of the vocal and accompaniment. The results from public music datasets show that the quality of the vocal and accompaniment separated by VAT-SNet is improved in GSNR, GSIR, and GSAR compared with Conv-TasNet and mainstream separation methods, such as U-Net, SH-4stack, etc.
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Liveness, Music, Media: The Case of the Cine-Concert
Hoping to attract new, younger audiences, symphony orchestras are frequently turning to multimedia productions such as cine-concerts. These live-to-film performances of a movie’s musical content concomitant with a complete screening have proven lucrative. Yet the events potentially complicate the accepted hierarchy of the movie soundtrack.
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The sounds of silent films : new perspectives on history, theory and practice
'The Sounds of Silent Films' is a collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.
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Hermann Kretzschmar's Forgotten Heirs: 'Silent'-Film Music as Applied Hermeneutics
The Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik was published by Hans Erdmann, Ludwig Brav, and Giuseppe Becce in 1927 by the Berlin-based publisher Schlesinger. It represents the most comprehensive and undoubtedly most significant document pertaining to the practice of \"silent\"-film accompaniment during the 1920s in Germany. The four hundred-page work is divided into two volumes: The first one delivers an elaborate aesthetic and theoretical debate about the prevalent and ideal methods of film accompaniment, and the second volume contains a cinema music catalog, the so-called Thematisches Skalenregister (Thematic Music Index), with over three thousand musical incipits. While the Handbuch was firmly grounded in the musical practice of cinema musicians, the two parts were not solely intended as a manual to facilitate the fast-paced working routine of practitioners, like the numerous cinema music catalogs that were published in Germany in the wake of Becce's Kinotheken (1919-1929). In these catalogs, music pieces of various origins were organized according to certain parameters in order to satisfy the musico-dramatic demands of day-to-day \"silent\"-film accompaniment. The pieces were interpreted for their extramusical associations and labeled under specific semantic categories in order to be used for specific and recurrent types of film scenes. This labeling of music was based on the tradition of \"musical hermeneutics,\" and it inspired the conception of the Handbuch's second volume, the Thematic Music Index, which is a complex and multilayered classification system for cinema music. Thus, in addition to providing a precise method for film accompaniment, the Handbuch contains a theory and an aesthetics that applies the music-hermeneutical ideas of German musicologist Hermann Kretzschmar to the practice of film accompaniment. Kretzschmar (1848-1924) located the core problem of musical hermeneutics--a discipline of music analysis that essentially studies musical meaning and interpretation--in the nomenclature of musical expression, which formed the basis of the musical accompaniment method in \"silent\" cinema. This essay focuses on the influence of Kretzschmar's theory of musical hermeneutics on the indexing system of the Handbuch as well as on the author's intentions to ground their work in academic theory.
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Piano by ear : learn to play by ear, improvise and accompany songs in simple steps
This book teaches people how to play the piano by ear. Suitable for beginners through to experienced pianists, you will learn to: Pick out tunes and harmonise them Improvise with an array of keys and chord patterns Accompany songs in a range of styles Understand how music works from the inside out Work through timeless favourites, folk, film, Christmas and contemporary songs.
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Lo Duca and Dreyer: Baroque Music, Extant Recordings, and Aleatoric Synchrony
In 1952, the Italian film historian Lo Duca, having discovered a lost print of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928), created a sonorized version of the film. This article details the history of the project and examines the use of baroque music with the moving image more generally. It also considers the vicissitudes of using pre-existent recordings and proposes a notion of aleatoric synchronization.
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American experience. Jubilee Singers. Interview with Horace Clarence Boyer, musicologist. 3 of 3
Horace Boyer interview about a group of young ex-slaves in Nashville, Tennessee, who set out on a mission to save their bankrupt school by giving concerts. Traveling first through cities in the North, then on to venues across Europe, the Jubilee Singers introduced audiences to the power of spirituals, the religious anthems of slavery. Driven to physical collapse and even death, the singers proved more successful - and more inspirational - than anyone could have imagined.
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