Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance

Prof. Eduardo R. Miranda is a composer and Professor in Computer Music at Plymouth University, UK, where he is Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). Dr. Alexis Kirke is a Research Fellow at ICCMR and composer-in-residency at the Marine Institute - Plymouth University.

An Overview of Computer Systems for Expressive Music Performance.- Systems for Interactive Control of Computer Generated Music Performance.- Expressive Performance Rendering with Probabilistic Models.- Artificial Evolution of Expressive Performance of Music.- Modelling, Analysing, Identifying and Synthesizing Expressive Popular Music Performances.- Statistical Approach to Automatic Expressive Rendition of Polyphonic Piano Music.- Evaluation of Computer Systems for Expressive Music Performance.- Computational Music Theory and its Applications to Expressive Performance and Composition.- Anthropomorphic Musical Robots Designed to Produce Physically-Embodied Expressive Music Performances.

“This is a useful reference book for any scientific library that supports music research.” (Soubhik Chakraborty, ACM Computing Reviews, Apr 10 2013, Review #: CR141126)