Toward the detection of interpretation effects and playing defects
Antony Schutz, Dirk T. M. Slock · 2009
Precise automatic music transcription requires accurate modeling and identification of the spectral content of the audio signal. But music can not be reduced to a succession of notes, and an accurate transcriptor should be able to detect other performance characteristics, such as slow tempo variations or, depending on the instrument detecting some interpretation effects. In a pedagogic way a student could want to improve his level and a good challenge will be to estimate the quality of play of musician. In this paper we present some of the most common playing defects and interpretation effects and we propose a way for detecting them.