Expressive Articulation for Synthetic Music Performances

Abstract

As one of the main expressive feature in music, articulation afiects a wide range of tone attributes. Based on experimental recordings we analyzed human articulation in the late Baroque style. The results are useful for both the understanding of historically informed performance practices and further progress in synthetic performance generation. This paper reports of our flndings and the implementation in a performance system. Because of its ∞exibility and universality the system allows more than Baroque articulation.