RT Journal Article
T1 Virtual Conductor for String Quartet Practice
A1 Báez, Raquel
A1 Barbancho-Pérez, Ana María
A1 Rosa-Pujazon, Alejandro
A1 Barbancho-Pérez, Isabel
A1 Tardón-García, Lorenzo José
K1 Música- Acústica y física
K1 Música - Programas de ordenador
AB This paper presents a system that emulates an ensemble conductor for string quartets. This application has been developed as a support tool for individual and group practice, so that users of any age range can use it to further hone their skills, both for regular musicians and studentsalike. The virtual conductor designed can offer similar indications to those given by a real ensemble conductor to potential users regarding beat times, dynamics, etc. The application developed allows the user to rehearse his/herperformance without the need of having an actual conductor present, and also gives access to additional tools to further support the learning/practice process, such as a tuneror a melody evaluator. The system developed also allows for both solo practice and group practice. A set of tests were conducted to check the usefulness of the application as a practice support tool. A group of musicians from theChamber Orchestra of Malaga including an ensemble conductor tested the system, and reported to have found it a very useful tool within an educational environment and that it helps to address the lack of this kind of educational tools in a self-learning environment.
PB KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sound and Music Computing Group
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/5685
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/5685
LA eng
NO R.Baez, A.M. Barbancho, A. Rosa-Pujazon, I. Barbancho, L.J. Tardon, "Virtual Conductor for String Quartet Practice", Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013, SMC 2013, Stockholm, Suecia, pp. 292-298"
NO This work has been funded by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of the Spanish Government under Project No. TIN2010-21089-C03- 02 and Project No. IPT-2011-0885-430000 and by the Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio under Project No. TSI-090100-2011-25.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026