Musicology

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. Download this paper …

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 …

A frame­work for tun­ing just-intonation scales via two series of fifths For more than twen­ty cen­turies, musi­cians, instru­ment mak­ers and …

Images of tem­pered scales cre­at­ed by the Bol Processor The fol­low­ing are Bol Processor + Csound inter­pre­ta­tions of J.-S. Bach’s …

Polymetric expres­sions are the basic rep­re­sen­ta­tion mod­el of musi­cal data in Bol Processor. The word is a mix of polypho­ny …

Bernard Bel A con­tri­bu­tion to The Ratio Symposium, 14-16 Dec. 1992, Den Haag (The Netherlands). Published in Barlow, Clarence (ed.) …

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 …

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 …

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 …