Melodic and rhythmic shaping of jazz improvisation. Computer-aided music analysis of monophonic jazz solos

该项目的目的是调查旋律和节奏的即兴爵士乐独奏使用独奏transient和计算分析工具的大型数据库的塑造。来自各种风格和表演者的大约250首单声道爵士乐独奏曲已经被半自动地转录并相对于一组全面的旋律特征（例如，音高和音程频率，节奏和韵律结构）。此外，该数据集将被用来识别和分类旋律和节奏模式和图案。这些基本单元的出现和变化将有助于我们得出关于即兴创作过程和风格特征的结论。该项目的结果将对爵士乐研究（爵士乐历史，爵士乐理论）和创作过程的心理学产生极大的兴趣。他们可能会导致实际应用在爵士乐教育（即兴教学法）和音乐信息检索和计算音乐学（自动转录，统计音乐分析，流派分类）。

The project aims to investigate the melodic and rhythmic shaping of improvised jazz solos using a large database of solo transcriptions and computational analysis tools. Approximately 250 monophonic jazz solos from a wide range of styles and performers have been transcribed semi-automatically and analyzed with respect to a comprehensive set of melodic features (e.g., pitch and interval frequencies, rhythmic and metrical structures). Furthermore, the data set will be used to identify and classify melodic and rhythmic patterns and motifs. Occurrence and variations of those basic units will allow conclusions concerning improvisation processes and style characteristics. The results of the project will be of great interest for jazz research (jazz history, jazz theory) and for the psychology of creative processes. They might lead to practical application in jazz education (didactics of improvisation) and in music information retrieval and computational musicology (automatic transcription, statistical music analysis, genre classification).