Musicology

On elec­tron­ic instru­ments such as the Bol Processor, micro­tonal­i­ty is the mat­ter of "micro­ton­al tun­ing", here mean­ing the con­struc­tion of musi­cal scales out­side the con­ven­tion­al one(s) …

A frame­work for con­struct­ing scales (tun­ing sys­tems) refer­ring to just into­na­tion in both clas­si­cal Indian and Western approach­es …

A com­pre­hen­sive inter­pre­ta­tion of the exper­i­ment of the two vinas described in Chapter XXVIII.24 of the Natya Shastra …

A scan of Bose, N.D. Melodic Types of Hindustan. Jaico, Bombay 1960 …

A scan of Arnold, E.J. A Mathematical mod­el of the Shruti-Swara-Grama-Murcchana-Jati System …

Bernard Bel Note interne, Groupe Représentation et Traitement des Connaissances (CNRS), Marseille 1988. 👉 Cited on page The two-vina exper­i­ment …

This arti­cle demon­strates the the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal con­struc­tion of micro­ton­al scales for the into­na­tion of North Indian ragas …

The pro­ce­dure for export­ing just-intonation scales from murcchana-s of Ma-grama …

This page presents a the­o­ret­i­cal frame­work for tun­ing musi­cal scales, with a focus on just into­na­tion and its appli­ca­tion in …

Images of tem­pered scales cre­at­ed by the Bol Processor This arti­cle demon­strates how the Bol Processor can apply dif­fer­ent his­tor­i­cal …

Polymetric expres­sions are the basic rep­re­sen­ta­tion mod­el for the tim­ing of musi­cal data in the Bol Processor …

Symbolic-numerical approach­es lead to effi­cient and ele­gant solu­tions of con­straint sat­is­fac­tion prob­lems with respect to sym­bol­ic and phys­i­cal dura­tions, …

An inter­view with James Kippen by Antoine Bourgeau …

Entretien avec James Kippen, par Antoine Bourgeau …

Tonal analy­sis of the com­plete set of pre­ludes and fugues by J.S. Bach in "The Well-tempered Clavier" …

The com­plete set of pre­ludes and fugues by J.S. Bach known as The Well-tempered Clavier, books II and II, inter­pret­ed with pre­sum­ably "opti­mal" tun­ing schemes …

Bol Processor gram­mars are char­ac­ter­i­sa­tions of sequen­tial events in terms of sub­string rep­e­ti­tions, homo­mor­phisms, etc. Parsing tech­niques, sto­chas­tic pro­duc­tion and recent devel­op­ments of BP gram­mars are briefly described …

A lin­guis­tic mod­el of tabla impro­vi­sa­tion and eval­u­a­tion derived from pat­tern lan­guages and for­mal gram­mars has been imple­ment­ed in the Bol Processor, a soft­ware sys­tem used in inter­ac­tive field­work with expert musi­cians …

This paper deals with the sched­ul­ing of “sound-objects”, here­by mean­ing pre­de­fined sequences of ele­men­tary tasks in a sound proces­sor, with each task mapped to a time-point …

James Kippen & Bernard Bel Computers and the Humanities (1989), 23, 3: 119-214 Abstract In exper­i­men­tal research into per­cus­sion ‘lan­guages', …

James Kippen & Bernard Bel In Mira Balaban, Otto Laske et Kemal Ebcioglu (eds.) Understanding Music with AI, American Association …

James Kippen & Bernard Bel In Denise Penrose & Ray Lauzanna (eds.) Languages of Design, 1 (1992). Elsevier Science Publishers, …

James Kippen & Bernard Bel Anthropological Quarterly (1989), 62, 3: 131-144 Abstract A major prob­lem in ethno­graph­ic descrip­tion may be …

Bernard Bel Computer Music Journal (1998), Vol. 22, 2: 56-64 Abstract The Bol Processor is the out­come of a migra­to­ry …

Bernard Bel Journées Françaises de l'Apprentissage (1990), Lannion, France : 5-27 Résumé Cet exposé présente une méth­ode générale d'acquisition de …

Bernard Bel Knowledge acqui­si­tion and rep­re­sen­ta­tion in music Thèse de doc­tor­at en sci­ences. Université de droit, d'économie et des sci­ences …