A Color-Based Visualization Approach to Understand Harmonic Structures of Musical Compositions

Malandrino, Delfina; Pirozzi, Donato; Zaccagnino, Gianluca; Zaccagnino, Rocco

doi:10.1109/iv.2015.21

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“…Therefore, a harmonic analysis yields the harmonic structure of musical compositions, and relationships between key regions can be extracted. While a couple of works show static representations of a song [Sap01, Wat01, Wat02, MFH04, CQM09, MPZZ15], others offer animations progressing throughout the song [BKH07, GC16]. Malandrino et al .…”

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A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data

Khulusi

Kusnick

Meinecke

et al. 2020

Computer Graphics Forum

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Digital methods are increasingly applied to store, structure and analyse vast amounts of musical data. In this context, visualization plays a crucial role, as it assists musicologists and non‐expert users in data analysis and in gaining new knowledge. This survey focuses on this unique link between musicology and visualization. We classify 129 related works according to the visualized data types, and we analyse which visualization techniques were applied for certain research inquiries and to fulfill specific tasks. Next to scientific references, we take commercial music software and public websites into account, that contribute novel concepts of visualizing musicological data. We encounter different aspects of uncertainty as major problems when dealing with musicological data and show how occurring inconsistencies are processed and visually communicated. Drawing from our overview in the field, we identify open challenges for research on the interface of musicology and visualization to be tackled in the future.

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“…Malandrino et al . [MPZZ15] highlight structural features of musical compositions by mapping similar tonalities to similar colours. Chan et al .…”

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A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data

Khulusi

Kusnick

Meinecke

et al. 2020

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…Among others, music analysts are interested in understanding the harmonic progressions and relationship of a musical piece. Malandrino et al propose a visualization approach to emphasize the harmonic structure of a composition by employing color to indicate tonal progressions [27]. Many approaches that propose an instrumentoriented design can also be assigned to the category 'Education' since visual metaphors that are based on the visual appearance of the respective instrument provide high potential for learning a new instrument.…”

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Analyzing Visual Mappings of Traditional and Alternative Music Notation

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Kraus

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“…Other researchers have already considered the problem of visualizing the structure of music. 2–4 A critical issue related to music visualization is about the creation of an informative and insightful visualization from which users, with a poor classical music background, are able to see the sound and, at the same time, semantically understand the underlying structure of music. The most important challenges to address when visualizing musical structures lie in both the preprocessing of the input data (i.e.…”

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“…music elements) and the design of a meaningful and intuitive graphical representation of music. In Malandrino et al, 2 the authors described and evaluated a graphical representation that allows users to understand the harmonic structure of musical compositions. In this work, we deal with a different musical aspect, that is, the melody, and a more sophisticated problem, that is, the analysis–compositional process .…”

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Understanding the structure of musical compositions: Is visualization an effective approach?

Prisco

Malandrino

Pirozzi

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Experienced musicians have the ability to understand the structural elements of music compositions. Such an ability is built over time through the study of music theory, the understanding of rules that guide the composition of music, and countless hours of practice. The learning process is hard, especially for classical music, where the rigidity of the music structures and styles requires great effort to understand, assimilate, and then master the learned notions. In particular, we focused our attention on a specific type of music compositions, namely, music in chorale style (four-voice music). Composing such type of music is often perceived as a difficult task because of the rules the composer has to adhere to. In this article, we propose a visualization technique that can help people lacking a strong knowledge of music theory. The technique exploits graphic elements to draw the attention on the possible errors in the composition. We then developed an interactive system, named VisualMelody, that employs the proposed visualization technique to facilitate the understanding of the structure of music compositions. The aim is to allow people to make four-voice music composition in a quick and effective way, that is, avoiding errors, as dictated by classical music theory rules. We have involved 40 people in testing VisualMelody in order to analyze its effectiveness, its usability, and the overall user satisfaction. We partitioned the people involved in the evaluation study into two groups evenly splitting the musical expertise. Then, we had one group use VisualMelody without the visualization facilities and the other using the tool enhanced with our visualization. On average, people in the group that used our visualization were 60% faster and produced music with less errors.

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A Color-Based Visualization Approach to Understand Harmonic Structures of Musical Compositions

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data

A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data

Analyzing Visual Mappings of Traditional and Alternative Music Notation

Understanding the structure of musical compositions: Is visualization an effective approach?

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