The acoustics of a recording space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and
capture. The book gives an essential grounding and understanding to how real music …

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Sequential actions such as playing a piano or tapping in synchrony to an external signal put
high cognitive and motor demands on producers, including the generation of precise timing …

This article gives an overview of selected developments in musical sound synthesis based
on physical models of musical instruments–sometimes called “virtual acoustic” sound …

As reported in the recent literature on piano performance, an emphasized voice (the melody)
tends to be played not only louder than the other voices, but also about 30 ms earlier …

A model of transverse piano string vibration, second order in time, which models frequency-
dependent loss and dispersion effects is presented here. This model has many desirable …

The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is
not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun …

An important music performance skill is to play scales, triads, and arpeggios with rhythmic
precision. Rhythmic precision implies regularity, smoothness, and crispness in the timing …

This paper presents a technique to resynthesize the sound generated by the vibrations of
two piano strings tuned to a very close pitch and coupled at the bridge level. Such a …

This thesis summarizes several contributions to the areas of musical signal processing and
virtual-analog musical sound synthesis. In virtual analog music synthesis, the waveform …