Speech and song have been transmitted orally for countless human generations, changing
over time under the influence of biological, cognitive, and cultural pressures. Cross-cultural …

Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches,
yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western …

In many musical styles, vocalists manually gesture while they sing. Coupling between
gesture kinematics and vocalization has been examined in speech contexts, but it is an …

This article presents the results of an empirical study of performers and audiences in a
performance of North Indian rāg performance. Analysis of audiovisual recordings is …

Deep Learning methods achieve state-of-the-art in many tasks, including vocal pitch
extraction. However, these methods rely on the availability of pitch track annotations without …

Work on musical gesture and embodied cognition suggests a rich complementarity between
audio and movement information in musical performance. Pose estimation algorithms now …

How can the classical Karnatik music of South India illuminate performers' and researchers'
understanding of the art music of seventeenth-century Italy, and specifically Monteverdi's …

A recent paradigm shift in music research has allowed scholars to examine the macro-and
micro-processes taking place within musical performance and underlying cognitive …

Scales, sets of discrete pitches that form the basis of melodies, are thought to be one of the
most universal hallmarks of music. But we know relatively little about cross-cultural diversity …

In recent decades, musicologists have argued for the socio-historical contingency of the
notion of “music improvisation,” and have questioned the usefulness of the terms …