Face the Music: Summarizing Unscripted Music Practice from Audio

Christopner Raphael

2025

Abstract

We present ongoing work in developing a system to support instrumental practice in which a students plays from a score but can move freely within the score, as is typical of score-based music practice. Our system develops a correspondence between the practice audio and the score, partitioning the audio into a collection of score-aligned excerpts using dynamic programming. We examine several offline approaches to help interpret or summarize the practice audio. One is a tool that allows score-driven browsing of the audio. We also look at several score-based visualization tools that highlight aspects of the practice data. Finally we develop a technique that assembles an “optimal” audio performance from the score-aligned fragments, seeking an assembly that is rhythmically most plausible according to a simple probabilistic model for musical timing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Raphael C. (2025). Face the Music: Summarizing Unscripted Music Practice from Audio. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSME; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 685-691. DOI: 10.5220/0013493800003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csme25,
author={Christopner Raphael},
title={Face the Music: Summarizing Unscripted Music Practice from Audio},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSME},
year={2025},
pages={685-691},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013493800003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSME
TI - Face the Music: Summarizing Unscripted Music Practice from Audio
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Raphael C.
PY - 2025
SP - 685
EP - 691
DO - 10.5220/0013493800003932
PB - SciTePress