This article investigates the relationship between the shape of the mouthpiece and its acoustical properties in brass instruments. The hypothesis is that not only different volumes but also particular cup...
Publications and working papers
Efficient Tracking of Pianists’ Finger Movements
Pianist finger movement contains information about note preparation, accent information as well as personal identifiers. However, no system for detailed finger tracking presently exists that can also be used ecologically:...
Playing hands together: Exploring the use of asynchrony as an expressive device
Pianists often use asynchrony with the purpose of making multiple voices more transparent or providing extra emphasis at particular locations. This study evaluates the perceptual effects of such asynchronies in...
Giuseppe Verdi in Victorian London
Despite the vast research on Verdi’s compositional as well as dramatic achievements, little attention seems to have been paid to the early reception of his works in Victorian London. A...
Recorded Interpretations of Chopin Preludes: Performer’s choice of score events for emphasis and emotional communication
What structural features characterize individual performers’ styles? To what extent do eminent pianists agree on segmentation and rendering of musical phrases? How much do they agree on selection of score...
The Intentions of Piano Touch
For pianists, touch is a corporeal tool that can be used not only to physically produce notes on the piano, but to mediate their expressive intentions for the performed music....
Exploring Expressive Piano Touch through Measurements of Finger Curvature
Viewed from piano pedagogy literature, finger curvature is a causative parameter in performance, altering the resultant tones. Investigations into the physical properties of the piano, however, produce conflicting views over...
Elucidating Musical Structure through Empirical Measurement of Performance Parameters
The differences between a musical score and an instance of that music in a performance, communicates a performer’s view of the information contained in that score. The main hypothesis in...