On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:51:42 -0700 Patrick Horgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone tried the violin part as a vocal sight singing training > tool? Not that I know of, although you're the third person to mention it (unoffically). I hope that you'll fill out the feedback form as well, so I can officially discuss it in the thesis. :) I see three problems: - the range. MEAWS violin intontation is aimed at violin, mostly on the upper two strings. The first exercise goes from A440 to the E above it. That might be ok for sopranos, but that's it. - the intervals. The first intonation exercise is nothing but leaps of a fifth. For violins, this is trivial: it's just changing between open strings. For singers, this would probably be exhausting, and is certainly not the easiest thing to begin with! - the audio analysis. MEAWS uses an extremely simple algorithm for grouping pitch-frames into notes (the reasons for this simplicity are given in chapter 1). This algorithm works great for violins, where there's a sharp gap in the pitches. For example, when you play a different string on a violin, there's a very sharp boundary. The human voice doesn't do the same kind of thing. Given the apparent interest in sight-singing practice, this may well be something to include in my PhD, if I can continue working in the same area (all depends on the university/supervisor/funding, all of which will be investigated and hopefully determined in the fall). Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
