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Music identification is widely regarded as a solved problem for music searching in quiet environments, but its performance tends to degrade in TV broadcast audio owing to the presence of dialogue or sound effects. In addition, constructing an accurate dataset for measuring the performance of background music monitoring in TV broadcast audio is challenging. We propose a framework for monitoring background music by automatic identification and introduce a background music cue sheet. The framework comprises three main components: music identification, music–speech separation, and music detection. In addition, we introduce the Cue‐K‐Drama dataset, which includes reference songs, audio tracks from 60 episodes of five Korean TV drama series, and corresponding cue sheets that provide the start and end timestamps of background music. Experimental results on the constructed and existing datasets demonstrate that the proposed framework, which incorporates music identification with music–speech separation and music detection, effectively enhances TV broadcast audio monitoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the history of the national anthem of China that provides a new perspective on society and culture during the regimes of the Qing dynasty and People's Republic of China. It describes attempts to create a national anthem during the Qing dynasty and the controversy that surrounded the first official Qing national anthem. It discusses the creation of the song "March of the Volunteers" for a war film that became the national anthem when People's Republic of China was founded.

The purpose of the article is to study the main formation stages of the bandura trio "Dyvostruny" of the Lesia Ukrainka Volyn National University (city of Lutsk) in order to examine the development of its artistic activity chronologically, as well as to determine the ensemble's contribution to the development and popularisation of modern bandura art in the local and international music scene. The research methodology is based on the application of general scientific methods such as source studies, historical analysis, culture and art researches, and generalisation method all of which provide an opportunity to analyse and comprehensively highlight the ensemble's undertakings. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time vast 25-year body of work of the unique Volyn group which is all female bandura trio "Dyvostruny" is systematised chronologically and its multifaceted activities are highlighted (such as participation in professional competitions, concert performances, creation of the new bandura repertoire, sheet music publications, recording and releasing of audio and video albums, thematic programmes on radio and television, popularisation of bandura art and national culture in Ukraine and abroad). Conclusions. The bandura trio "Dyvostruny" of Lesia Ukrainka University in its many years of diverse activities (including being a productive and creative art laboratory, winners of various prestigious professional competitions, fascinating live band, bright representatives of the national artistry as an expression of Ukrainian identity and Volyn melos in inside the country and abroad) solidifies the importance of promoting national arts throughout the world and makes a significant contribution to the musical, aesthetic and patriotic education of the Ukrainian nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to the study of the specifics of high-quality voicing of musical scores in the GUITAR PRO 7.5 sequencer. Research methodology. The article uses a systematic approach, as well as applied methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, and generalisation. The scientific novelty lies in the research of technological aspects and the development of innovative methods of working with sound in the GUITAR PRO 7.5 sequencer, which allows you to create recordings of musical works for guitar, bass guitar, banjo, as well as for many other instruments and musical groups; voice musical compositions with the help of modern software tools, as well as the possibilities of using music and information technologies in the further artistic practice of musicians, sound producers, sound engineers, producers and in professional music education. Conclusions. This software product is a powerful sheet music editor that allows you to create original musical projects at a professional level for subsequent editing. The popularity and demand of this software among guitarists around the world is due to a simple and clear interface, as well as a special file format. The programme presents a lot of necessary tools with which the user can work with a diverse set of musical notation symbols, as well as with a wide range of sound dynamics and tempo adjustments, which allows the authors to create samples of musical compositions that sound and their phonograms. High-quality voicing of scores. The sound of the RSE (Realistic Sound Engine) in Guitar Pro 7.5 is very close to the real sound of the instruments. It can be used by professionals of publishing and educational institutions, when creating music (soundtracks) for theatre, television, video games, cinema. It is also used by musicians, composers, arrangers, sound producers, sound engineers, and producers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces two late-Georgian binders' volumes of printed vocal and keyboard sheet music held at Newcastle upon Tyne's Literary and Philosophical Society. Both volumes display connections with the north-east of England, and, as we argue, were most likely compiled in the region in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the opening decades of the nineteenth. These volumes have not received scholarly attention, yet a close examination enables us to expand the scope of previous studies on musical circulation and the music trade, and to contribute new insights to the emerging national picture. They shed light on patterns of the acquisition, circulation, and consumption of music alongside mapping the nexus of print centres—in this case, London, Edinburgh, and Newcastle—on which consumers of domestic sheet music in the north-east of England might have drawn to access the latest musical materials. We begin by examining the physical, bibliographical, and musical features of the volumes to explore questions of dating, ownership, and their connections with the north-east of England, and go on to consider the routes through which the music they contain might have been obtained by music consumers in the region. Finally, we explore the contents of these volumes, setting them against the national picture of domestic music consumption, and consider their contents from the perspective of gendered modes of consumption, local politics and identity, and national polite music culture. In so doing, we elucidate how two domestic musicians in the north-east of England engaged with local and national musical culture in the composition of their personal music books and the fashioning of their social and musical identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While music libraries fundamentally face the same preservation concerns as any other library, their collections face unique problems. Sheet music is heavily used in distinct ways, and comes in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and formats, all of which lead to maintenance issues that apply specifically to these materials. Arguing that genre and use inform the formats and damage we see in sheet music, this paper systematically explores the different features of scores, including bindings, sizes, and uses. I discuss the major preservation issues faced by circulating, printed music collections and suggest possible solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Music transcription is the process of transforming recorded sound of musical performances into symbolic representations such as sheet music or MIDI files. Extensive research and development have been carried out in the field of music transcription and technology. This comprehensive review paper surveys the diverse methodologies, techniques, and advancements that have shaped the landscape of music transcription. The paper outlines the significance of music transcription in preserving, analyzing, and disseminating musical compositions across various genres and cultures. It also provides a historical perspective by tracing the evolution of music transcription from traditional manual methods to modern automated approaches. It also highlights the challenges in transcription posed by complex singing techniques, variations in instrumentation, ambiguity in pitch, tempo changes, rhythm, and dynamics. The review also categorizes four different types of transcription techniques, frame-level, note-level, stream-level, and notation-level, discussing their strengths and limitations. It also encompasses the various research domains of music transcription from general melody extraction to vocal melody, note-level monophonic to polyphonic vocal transcription, single-instrument to multi-instrument transcription, and multi-pitch estimation. The survey further covers a broad spectrum of music transcription applications in music production and creation. It also reviews state-of-the-art open-source as well as commercial music transcription tools for pitch estimation, onset and offset detection, general melody detection, and vocal melody detection. In addition, it also encompasses the currently available python libraries that can be used for music transcription. Furthermore, the review highlights the various open-source benchmark datasets for different areas of music transcription. It also provides a wide range of references supporting the historical context, theoretical frameworks, and foundational concepts to help readers understand the background of music transcription and the context of our paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The piano fingering annotation task refers to assigning finger labels to notes in piano sheet music. Good fingering helps improve the smoothness and musicality of piano performance. In this paper, we propose a method for automatically generating piano fingering using a model-based reinforcement learning algorithm. We treat fingering annotation as a partial constraint combinatorial optimization problem and establish an environment model for the piano performance process based on prior knowledge. We design a reward function based on the principle of minimal motion and use reinforcement learning algorithms to decide the optimal fingering combinations. Our innovation lies in establishing a more realistic environment model and adopting a model-based reinforcement learning approach, compared to model-free methods, to enhance the utilization of samples. We also propose a music score segmentation method to parallelize the fingering annotation task. The experimental section shows that our method achieves good results in eliminating physically impossible fingerings and reducing the amount of finger motion required in piano performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recognition of printed music sheets in camera-based realistic scenarios is a novel research branch of optical music recognition (OMR). However, special factors in realistic scenarios, such as uneven lighting distribution and curvature of staff lines, can have adverse effects on OMR models designed for digital music scores. This paper proposes a stave-aware method based on object detection to recognize monophonic printed sheet music in camera-based scenarios. By detecting the positions of staff lines, we improve the accuracy of note pitch effectively. In addition, we present the Camera Printed Music Staves (CPMS) dataset, which consists of labels and images captured by mobile phones under different angles and lighting conditions in realistic scenarios. We compare our method after training on different datasets with a sequence recognition method called CRNN-CTC on the test set of the CPMS dataset. The results show that the accuracy, robustness, and data dependency of our method perform better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Cover Treasure: The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong" by Lowell Thing is a comprehensive study of Margaret Armstrong, a prominent American designer of decorated publisher's cloth bindings. Thing provides an overview of the nineteenth-century movements that influenced Armstrong's work and discusses her family background and biography. The book includes a catalog of Armstrong's designs for book and magazine covers, sheet music, and dust jackets, as well as an examination of her cover design process. With its thorough treatment of Armstrong's life and achievements, this book serves as an invaluable reference for collectors, catalogers, and scholars. [Extracted from the article]

His writings have always contained musical metaphors, his poetry is full of the rhythms, voicings and percussivity of the various musics that he has encountered, and he has been deeply interested in the atonal and the microtonal, in his own words, "rhymeless and rhythmskewed". Keywords: Music; politics; sociology; poetry EN Music politics sociology poetry 325 330 6 10/04/23 20230701 NES 230701 Imagine me sitting in my room. Music, politics, sociology, poetry In other words, the cello is a fabulous metaphor for the many ways in which Ari engages with music, through his academic work, his poetry and fiction and also as poetry-music collaborations with several people over the years. [Extracted from the article]

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This study aims to provide a comprehensive description of the forms of symbolic interaction in the learning process of Semarang Gambang Music. The concept and theory of Symbolic Interaction belonging to George Herbert Mead (1934, 1938) which views the way of thinking about the mind (mind), self (self) and society (society) is used to examine the implementation of the learning process of Gambang Semarang Music. By using a qualitative approach, the data were obtained through the use of literature study techniques, observations, interviews, and document studies. Then some of the data that has been obtained is analyzed using steps according to Miles and Huberman's theory, namely analyzing data in three steps: 1) Data condensation, presenting data (data display), and drawing conclusions or verification (conclusion drawing and verification) ). Data condensation refers to the process of selecting, focusing, simplifying, abstracting, and transforming data. The results of the study show that symbolic interaction in learning Gambang Semarang Music occurs during the learning process. The forms of symbolic interaction between the teacher and the students are first, the teacher gives a signal (one, two, three, four) when leading the students to play the Semarang gambang musical instruments and sing songs together, and secondly, the teacher guides and guides them. students in reading sheet music notation prepared in the learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to describe the structure and techniques of playing Pancula Ndeme by Justinus Hokey on classical guitar composition. This study uses a qualitative approach. The data analyzed is the sheet music of Pancula Ndeme. The results of this study indicate that the structure of this composition consists of several parts, namely Introduction – A – B – C – A – B – Coda. There are four motifs in section A (m1, m2, m3, m4), two sentences (sentences a and a'), and two themes in each sentence. Section B consists of three motifs (n1, n2, n3), two phrases (phrase b and b'), and two themes in each sentence. Section C consists of 2 motifs (o1 and o2). The guitar playing techniques contained in this composition are the right-hand technique and the left-hand technique. The right-hand techniques found in this composition include; apoyando, tirando, and strumming techniques. The left-hand techniques contained in this composition include; slur, barre, and harmonic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using personal cars for private taxi services gave rise to the jitney bus a century before Uber and Lyft. Songs with titles such as "Take Me Out in a Jitney Bus (and Pose as a Millionaire)" (Ruddy and Garrahan) provide a body of sheet music on a cultural issue of the early twentieth century that has striking similarities to issues in the early twenty-first century. In this way, they provide insights into how ideas, tropes, and memes are circulated in both eras and demonstrate a parallel communicative function between early sheet music and today's social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legibility can seem as similar to the quintessence of musical notation, without which any attempt at musical inscription has fundamentally no purpose. Nevertheless, the visual culture of the English Renaissance is full of surviving examples that feature music books that are, fundamentally, illegible. Such instances are not useless, but rather shed vital light on the concerns of the visual culture of the English Renaissance, as well as what representation meant to the people who originally created and viewed these objects. What does it mean to include sheet music that merely looks similar to, but does not manifest, as legible notation? When does an object lose its semantic value? When do writing, notation, and signification pull lose from their seams and cease to be meaningful? Through the lens of a trio of objects (Four Children Making Music by the Master of the Countess of Warwick, an anonymous furnishing panel from Hardwick Hall, and a wall painting from High Street, Thame) that feature partially, or tantalizingly, legible musical notation, this paper seeks to explore the ramifications of visually depicting things that are and are not readable. Such objects have a graphic eloquence beyond the simple equation of sign and signified. Ultimately, entertaining the concept of illegible music notation within visual art objects as a deliberate stylistic choice, I argue that we can greatly enhance our understanding of what the notes on the page could mean in the English Renaissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España, BNE) is the head of the Spanish library system. It holds all books published in Spain, and also several collections of different types, including the Music and Audiovisuals Department's sound recordings and sheet music. Its Department of Bibliographic Control of Periodicals catalogues both newspapers and magazines. In addition, the BNE offers a number of online services including the Hispanic Digital Library (Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, BDH) and the Digital Newspaper Library (Hemeroteca Digital, HemD). The BDH, was created in 2008 and currently provides free and open access to more than 220,000 digitized documents, including recordings and scores. In contrast, HemD, which is part of the BDH, focuses on the public dissemination of the digital collection of Spanish historical presses. It currently offers around 2,500 titles and more than 70,000,000 pages. Newspapers and magazines are available in PDF format and searches are facilitated by OCR (Optical Character Recognition). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Focusing on the mobility of Haydn's music within an emerging European economy, Nicholas Mathew's pathbreaking study traces the many ways aesthetics and economics developed in tandem during the second half of the eighteenth century. Nicholas Mathew, The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2022). [Extracted from the article]