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Convention Paper

Detection of Musical Pitch from Recorded Solo Performances

Authors: Beauchamp, James W.; Maher, Robert C.; Brown, Rebekah

AES Convention 94 · Paper 3541 · March 1993

Abstract

Our frequency-domain-based pitch detector graphs musical pitch as the log of detected fundamental frequency on a Unix computer. Recorded virtuosic solo performances are difficult to track when they contain frequency-obscuring reverberation, or when they are dry, since artifact noises can then interfere. This paper presents practical methods for overcoming these problems and offers provisional limits on the accuracy of the detected fundamental frequency.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 94
AES Convention
94
Paper number
3541
Publication date
March 6, 1993
Session subject
Music and Musical Instruments
Affiliation
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL ; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE ; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper