The influence of room acoustics on solo music performance: An experimental study.

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zora Schärer Kalkandjiev ◽  
Stefan Weinzierl
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Room Acoustics ◽  
Solo Music

The Influence of Room Acoustics on Solo Music Performance: An Empirical Case Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zora Schärer Kalkandjiev ◽  
Stefan Weinzierl
Keyword(s):  
Music Performance ◽  
Room Acoustics ◽  
Solo Music

Measurement of Instrumental and Vocal Undergraduate Performance Juries Using a Multidimensional Assessment Rubric

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Ciorba ◽  
Neal Y. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Music Performance ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Applied Music ◽  
Performance Achievement ◽  
Multidimensional Assessment ◽  
Solo Music ◽  
Interjudge Reliability ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Assessment Rubric

Recent policy initiatives instituted by major accrediting bodies require the implementation of specific assessment tools to provide evidence of student achievement in a number of areas, including applied music study. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of a multidimensional assessment rubric, which was administered to all students performing instrumental and vocal juries at a private Midwestern university during one semester ( N = 359). Interjudge reliability coefficients indicated a moderate to high level of agreement among judges. Results also revealed that performance achievement was positively related to participants' year in school (freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior), which indicates that a multidimensional assessment rubric can effectively measure students' achievement in the area of solo music performance.

Investigating rater accuracy in the context of secondary-level solo instrumental music performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian C. Wesolowski ◽  
Stefanie A. Wind
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Rater Training ◽  
Solo Music ◽  
Rater Accuracy ◽  
Assessment Context

In any performance-based musical assessment context, construct-irrelevant variability attributed to raters is a cause of concern when constructing a validity argument. Therefore, evidence of rater quality is a necessary criterion for psychometrically sound (i.e., valid, reliable, and fair) rater-mediated music performance assessments. Rater accuracy is a type of rater quality index that measures the distance between raters’ operational ratings and an expert’s criterion ratings on a set of benchmark, exemplar, or anchor musical performances. The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of ratings in the context of a secondary-level solo music performance assessment using a Multifaceted Rasch Rater Accuracy (MFR-RA) measurement model. This study was guided by the following research questions: (a) overall, how accurate were the rater judgments in the assessment context? (b) how accurate were the rater judgments across each of the items of the rubric?, and (c) how accurate were the rater judgments across each of the domains of the rubric? Results indicated that accuracy scores generally matched the expectations of the MFR-RA model, with rater locations higher than the average student performance, item, and domain locations, indicating that the student performances, items, and domains were relatively easy to rate accurately for the sample of raters examined in this study. Overall, rater accuracy ranged from 0.54 logits ( SE = 0.05) for the most accurate rater to 0.24 logits ( SE = 0.04) for the least accurate rater. Difficulty of rater accuracy across items indicated a range of 0.91 logits ( SE = 0.08) to -1.83 logits ( SE = 0.17). Difficulty of rater accuracy across domains ranged from 0.25 logits ( SE = 0.08) to -0.68 logits ( SE = 0.17). Implications for the improvement of music performance assessments with specific regard to rater training are discussed.

scholarly journals SOLO MUSIC DENGAN PENERAPAN SISTEM AKUSTIK

Arsitektura ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Yanuar Aditya Beny Prabowo ◽  
Suparno Suparno ◽  
Amin Sumadyo
Keyword(s):  
Music Performance ◽  
Building Design ◽  
School Design ◽  
Recording Studio ◽  
Music School ◽  
Sound Absorber ◽  
Solo Music ◽  
Music Genre ◽  
Musical Activities ◽  
Music Activities

<p><em>Solo’s music world is not yet well accousticly contained because Solo does not have any buliding that specifically used for musical activities. The purpose of this design is to create a container of music activities with a good accoustic quality. The problem that emerge is how to design a building to contain music activities with a good accoustic quality. The planned building apply an accoustical system which able to accomodate every music genre with amplified sound. The accoustic room uses many sound absorber for amplified music. The result is music performance building design, music school design, recording studio design, and music studio design with a good accoustic quality.</em></p><p class="Keywords"><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: Music Performance Building, Music School, Recording Studio, Music Studio, Accoustic System</em><em></em></p>

Creative process and performance practice of interactive computer music: a performer's tale

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARI KIMURA
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Room Acoustics ◽  
Interactive Music ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Musical Context

I have had a major interest in the performance practice issues in electronic and interactive systems over the years (see, for example, Kimura 1996). As a performer/composer often presenting pieces from the classical and other contemporary acoustic violin literature in traditional settings along with electronic works, and also as a teacher of interactive computer music performance at a conservatory where my students include highly trained performers, performance practice issues in computer music come up very frequently in association with the creative process. I tend to focus on creating MaxMSP patches that address a particular musical context or situation, rather than creating an elaborate versatile and reusable MaxMSP patch and then using that patch in a particular way to make music. This paper describes a few examples of my interest in this area: (i) System Aspects: Performance Practice Issues and Room Acoustics; (ii) ‘Pragmatic’ Programming and Performance of Interactive Music; and (iii) Creative Process and Interactive Computer Music.

Experimental study on the restoration from a tilt-azimuth series for improvement in resolution

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 636-637
Author(s):  
Norio Baba ◽  
Norihiko Ichise ◽  
Syunya Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Incident Beam ◽  
Optical Parameters ◽  
Beam Tilting ◽  
Illumination Method ◽  
Restoration Method ◽  
Illumination Mode

The tilted beam illumination method is used to improve the resolution comparing with the axial illumination mode. Using this advantage, a restoration method of several tilted beam images covering the full azimuthal range was proposed by Saxton, and experimentally examined. To make this technique more reliable it seems that some practical problems still remain. In this report the restoration was attempted and the problems were considered. In our study, four problems were pointed out for the experiment of the restoration. (1) Accurate beam tilt adjustment to fit the incident beam to the coma-free axis for the symmetrical beam tilting over the full azimuthal range. (2) Accurate measurements of the optical parameters which are necessary to design the restoration filter. Even if the spherical aberration coefficient Cs is known with accuracy and the axial astigmatism is sufficiently compensated, at least the defocus value must be measured. (3) Accurate alignment of the tilt-azimuth series images.

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