Re: [AUDITORY] Melodic movies

["James W. Beauchamp" <jwbeauch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ani,

Thanks for informing the Auditory list about the Music in Motion
web site!

It's nice to see (and hear) these results. They seem to be error free. 
I'm assuming that the drone accompaniment is on a different track;
otherwise it would interfere with the voice pitch trace. Looking the
site's Introduction pull-down, it appears that the program is using
the Praat algorithm for pitch detection. I would think that the same 
program would work for western singing except that the vertical scale 
should ideally correspond to standard equal-tempered (ET) notes. 

The software that I've been developing over many years, SNDAN, 
includes a program, that uses the Two-Way-Mismatch method (written by 
Robert C. Maher*), that makes pitch-vs.-time plots with the ET scale, 
but it's not error free and it's not real time. The program was 
written in C for Unix (e.g., Mac terminal or Linux). However, in 2008 
Ugur Guney wrote an offshoot of this program that runs in real time, 
called Freqazoid. It is written in Java and is a free download at:
<https://code.google.com/archive/p/freqazoid/downloads>

Ugur is now (in his spare time) working on a real-time web-based 
version of freqazoid.  

Best,

Jim

James W. Beauchamp                                                
Research Professor
Professor Emeritus of Music and Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
email: jwbeauch@xxxxxxxxxxxx (also: jwbeauch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
WWW:  http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/beaucham
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* References on the Two-Way-Mismatch method:

R. C. Maher and J. W. Beauchamp, "Fundamental frequency estimation 
of musical signals using a two-way mismatch procedure", J. Acoust.
Soc. Am. 95(4), 2254-2263 (1994).

J. W. Beauchamp, "Analysis and Synthesis of Musical Instrument Sounds",
in Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: Sound of
Music, J. W. Beauchamp, Ed., Springer, N. Y., pp. 1 - 89 (2007).

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Original message:
> From: "Patel, Aniruddh D." <a.patel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:02:13 +0000
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Melodic movies
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I have a question... there is a website where you can hear professional
> Indian classical singing and watch the pitch of the singer's voice on
> a scrolling graph which captures all the nuances in vivid detail.
> 
> https://autrimncpa.wordpress.com/
> 
> (Click on a Raga on the left menu bar, then after the page loads, scroll
> down and watch the associated movie.)
> 
> My question is: does anyone know of a similar resource for western 
> classical singing?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ani Patel
> 
> Aniruddh D. Patel
> Professor
> Dept. of Psychology
> Tufts University
> 490 Boston Ave.
> Medford, MA 02155
> Senior Fellow
> Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
> Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind, & Consciousness
> a.patel@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:a.patel@xxxxxxxxx>
> http://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/people/patel/