Zhang, Shuo; Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier(International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)
The similarity between linguistic tones and melodic pitch
contours in Beijing Opera can be captured either by the
contour shape of single syllable units, or by the pairwise
pitch height relations in adjacent syllable ...
Caro Repetto, Rafael; Zhang, Shuo; Serra, Xavier(ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2017)
When lyrics of tonal languages are set to music, the pitch contour of the tones has to agree to a certain extent with the melodic contour to assure intelligibility. The relationship between the linguistic tones of the ...
Zhang, Shuo; Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier(International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2014)
Features of linguistic tone contours are important factors that shape the distinct melodic characteristics of different genres of Chinese opera. In Beijing opera, the presence of a two-dialectal tone system makes the ...
Zhang, Shuo; Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier(International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2017)
The emotional content of jingju (aka Beijing or Peking opera) arias is conveyed through pre-defined metrical patterns known as banshi, each of them associated with a specific expressive function. In this paper, we first ...
