Music Discussion/Reading Group

A reading/discussion group on music cognition and computation exists since 2004. For each meeting one or two articles are chosen (and read by the participants beforehand) to form the basis for a discussion. Generally, the person who suggests a particular paper also gives a short overview of it or highlights some discussion points at the beginning of the reading group. Also, attendees are encouraged to present their own work, since this is a nice opportunity to get feedback about ones own work.

Subscribe to the announcement mailing list by sending an email to A.K.Honingh at uva.nl (sorry, no self subscription anymore due to unwanted spam messages). To unsubscribe, send an email to musicreadinggroup+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For comments, information, suggestions for a paper or speakers to invite, or to volunteer a presentation, contact Aline Honingh by sending an email to A.K.Honingh at uva.nl. The meetings are held at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam.

Current and past agenda

• 17 February 2012. 1400. Presentation by Makiko Sadakata on 'Enhanced perception of various linguistic features by musicians: a cross-linguistic study'.
• 27 January 2012. 14.00. Presentation by Michiel Schuijer on 'Pitch-Class Set Theory and the Notion of Distance in Music'.
  
  
• 18 November 2011. 14.00. Discussion of paper: Jamshed Bharucha: From frequency to pitch, and from pitch class to musical key: shared principles of learning and perception. Connection Science Vol. 21. no 2-3. 177-192, 2009.
• 21 October 2011. 14.00. 5 minute presentations by all participants on their research.
• 23 September 2011. 14.00. Discussion of paper: David Huron: Why is sad music pleasurable? A possible role for prolactin. Musicae Scientiae 15(2): 146-158.
• 8 July 2011. 14.00. Presentation by Loes Bazen on `Auditory Motor Mapping Training for nonverbal children with ASD: linking treatment outcome with oral-motor and joint attention skills'.
• 20 May 2011. 14.00. Discussion of paper: E. Cambouropoulos. How similar is similar? Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 4B, 2009, 7-24.
• 15 April 2011. 14.00. Discussion of paper: G.A. Wiggins, D. Muellensiefen, M.T. Pearce. On the non-existence of music; Why music theory is a figment of the imagination. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 5, 2010, 231-255.
• 11 March 2011. 14.00. Presentation by Peter van Kranenburg on `A pattern recognition approach to the attribution of early seventeenth-century keyboard compositions using repeating melodic patterns in diminutions in solo parts'.
• 11 February 2011, 13.30. Presentation by Annerose Engel on `Learning Piano Melodies in merely visual or auditory training conditions and the neural correlates of their crossmodal recognition'.
• 14 January 2011, 14.00. Discussion of paper: P. Mavromatis (2009). Minimum description length modeling of musical structure. Journal of Mathematics and Music 3:117-136
  
  
• 10 December 2010, 14.00. Presentation by Aline Honingh on `Pitch class set categories and its applications'.
• 12 November 2010, 13.30. Presentations and discussions of several papers from the ICMPC 2010. list of papers to be presented:
  • B. Duane. Information content in melodic and non-melodic lines.
  • J.H. McDermott et al. (2010). Musical intervals and relative pitch: Frequency resolution, not interval resolution, is special. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128(4), pp 1943-1951. (paper presented within two symposia)
  • D. Huron and M.J. Davis. The Effect of Scale Degree Modifications on Average Interval Size.
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• 1 October 2010, 2pm. Discussion of the paper: F. Lerdahl, C.L. Krumhansl: Modeling tonal tension Music perception 24:4 329-366, 2007



• 18 December 2009, 2 pm. Presentation of Anders Bouwers with the title: ``Feeling the Beat Where it Counts: Fostering Multi-limb Rhythm Skills with the Haptic Drum Kit''.
• 27 November 2009, 2pm. Discussion of the paper: Reid Swanson, Elaine Chew and Andrew S. Gordon, 2008. "Supporting Musical Creativity With Unsupervised Syntactic Parsing". In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Syposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford University, California.
• 16 October 2009, 2pm. Presentation of Bas de Haas on the paper: Bas de Haas, Martin Rohrmeier, Remco Veltkamp and Frans Wiering (2009). Modeling Harmonic Similarity Using a Generative Grammar of Tonal Harmony. In proceedings of ISMIR 2009.
• 06 February 2009, time tba, room tba: Discussion on Music Imagery. A presentation will be given by Rebecca Schaefer (Radboud University Nijmegen, NICI). 


• 26 October 2007, 13-15:00, room 1.14: Fitch, W.T. & Rosenfeld, A.J. (2007). Perception and production of syncopated rhythms.  Music Perception, 25, 43-58. 
• 12 July 2007: Special discusison and feedback session on planned presentations for upcoming SMPC, Montreal.
• 27 April 2007: Repp, B.H. (2007). Hearing a melody in different ways: Multistability of metrical interpretation, reflected in rate limits of sensorimotor synchronization. Cognition, 102, 434 - 454. 
• 16 March 2007: Todd, N.P.M., Cousins, R., & Lee, C.S. (2007). The contribution of anthropometric factors to individual differences in the perception of rhythm. Empirical Musicology Review, 2, 1-13. AND Repp, B.H. (2007). Embodied rhythm: Commentary on 'The contribution of anthropometric factors to individual differences in the perception of rhythm'. Empirical Musicology Review, 2, 14-16.
• 26 January 2007: Applying inner metric analysis to rhythm perception, analysis and classification. A talk is given by Anja Volk. http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/volk/


• 24 November 2006: Sadakata, M., Desain, P.W.M., & Honing, H.J. (2006). The Bayesian way to relate rhythm perception and production. Music Perception, 23 (3), 267-286. A presentation will be given by Makiko Sadakata. 
• 27 October 2006: Temperley, D. (2004). An evaluation system for metrical models. Computer Music Journal, 28 (3), 28-44.
• 29 September 2006: Handel, S. (1993). The effect of tempo and tone duration on rhythm discrimination. Perception & Psychophysic, 54 (3), 370-382. 
• 23 June 2006: Honing, H. (2006). Computational modeling of music cognition: a case study on model selection. Music Perception, 23(5), 365-376.
• 19 May 2006: cancelled
• 21 April 2006: Mark G. Orr & Stellan Ohlsson (2005). Relationship between complexity and liking as a function of expertise. Music Perception, 22 (4), 583-611. 
• 17 March 2006: E. Bigand et al. (2005). Multidimensional scaling of emotional responses to music: The effect of musical expertise and of the duration of the excerpts. Cognition and Emotion, 19 (8), 1113-1139.
• 10 February 2006: E.G. Schellenberg (2001). Music and nonmusical abilities. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 930, 355-371. & K.M. Nantais & E.G. Schellenberg (1999). The mozart effect: An artifact of preference. Psychological Science, 10, 370-373. 
• 20 January 2006: Leigh M. Smith & Peter Kovesi (1996). A continuous time-frequency approach to representing rhythmic strata. In: Proceedings of the 4th ICMPC, Montreal, 197-202. 
  
  
• 14 December 2005 (Wednesday!!): Oliver Vitouch (2003). Absolutist Models of Absolute Pitch are Absolutely Misleading. Music Perception 2003, Vol. 21, No. 1, 111-117.
• 18 November 2005: Steven Mithen (2005). The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. Chapters 1,2 and 17.
• 21 October 2005: Henk Visser (2005). From Bach to Wagner (yet unpublished).
• 23 September 2005: William A. Sethares (1993). Local consonance and the relationship between timbre and scale. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. vol. 94, no. 3, pp. 1218-1228.
• 17 June 2005: Peter M. Todd (1999). Simulating the evolution of musical behavior. In N.L. Wallin, B. Merker, and S. Brown (Eds.), /The origins of music/ (pp. 361-388). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 27 May 2005: (1) Frans Wiering, Rainer Typke, Remco C. Veltkamp (2004) - Transportation Distances and Their Application in Music-Notation Retrieval. In: Music Query: Methods, Strategies, and User Studies (Computing in Musicology 13), pages 113-128. (2) Eleanor Selfridge-Field (2004) - Towards a Measure of Cognitive Distance in Melodic Similarity. In: Music Query: Methods, Strategies, and User Studies (Computing in Musicology 13), pages 93-111.
  
• 15 April 2005: Aline Honingh, Rens Bod (2004). The Notion of Convexity in Music. Under review.
  
• 17 March 2005 (Note that this is a Thursday!): (1) Longuet-Higgins, H. C. and Lee, C. S. (1987). The rhythmic interpretation of monophonic music. In H. C. Longuet-Higgins, editor, Mental Processes: Studies in Cognitive Science, pages 150-168. (2) Honing, H. (2004) Het geheim van de syncope. Over muziekcognitie, meten aan uitvoeringen, spannende ritmes en de aandacht van baby's. De Groene Amsterdammer 45, 28-29.
  
• 11 February 2005: David Huron (2001). Tone and Voice: A Derivation of the Rules of Voice-leading from Perceptual Principles. Music Perception, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2001) pp. 1-64.
  
• 14 January 2005: (1) Rebecca Schaefer, Jaap M.J. Murre, Rens Bod (2004). Limits to Universality in Segmentation of Simple Melodies. Proceedings of the ICMPC8. (2) Rebecca Schaefer and Alexandra Lamont (2004). The effect of type of musical expertise on melody recognition: modular and interactive perspectives of musical information processing. A presentation is given by Rebecca Schaefer.
  


• 10 December 2004: Neta Spiro (2004). What is a musical phrase and what is its role in music perception? General conclusions resulting from a series of studies of excerpts of classical music by composers from Bach to Wagner.A presentation is given by Neta Spiro.
  
• 12 November 2004: (1) Sadakata, M., Ohgushi, K. & Desain, P. (2004). A cross-cultural comparison study of the production of simple rhythmic patterns. Psychology of Music 32(4): 389-403. (2) Patel, A.D. and Daniele, J.R. (2003). An empirical comparison of rhythm in language and music. Cognition 87: B35-B45. A presentation is given by Makiko Sadakata.
  
• 15 October 2004: Marvin Minsky (1981). Music, Mind and Meaning. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3. A presentation is given by Christer Hennix.
  
• 17 September 2004: Nicholas Cook (1994). A Guide to Music Analysis, chapter 4 ("Formal Approaches to Analysis"), section II ("Set-theoretical Analysis"). Michiel Schuijer (2004), PhD thesis, Chapter 7 ("Mise-en-Scene"), section 2 ("Historical Models and Topical Meanings"). A presentation is given by Michiel Schuijer.
  
• June 2004: Ralph Smeenk (2004). Towards a model of Parallelism. Proceeding of ICMC 2004.
  
• May 2004: Eleni Lapidaki (2000). Stability of Tempo Perception in Music Listening. Music Education Research, Vol. 2, No.1. A presentation is given by Eleni Lapidaki.
  
• April 2004: Edward M. Burns (1982). Intervals, scales and tuning. In D. Deutsch (ed.), The Psychology of Music. New York: Academic Press.
  
• March 2004: Henkjan Honing (2004). A Perception-based alternative to kinematic models of rubato? A presentation is given by Henkjan Honing.