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Ancient Chinese zither (guqin) music recovery with support vector machine

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Kaizhong Zhang,

Bin MaAuthors Info & Claims

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Volume 3, Issue 2

Article No.: 5, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/1841317.1841320

Published: 07 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The Chinese zither, called guqin, has existed for over 3,000 years and always played an important role in Chinese social history. An interesting but unfortunate fact is that the traditional notation of guqin music does not provide the duration information for each music note which requires the player to learn from his teacher and memorize. As a result, among several thousands of compositions that have been created and recorded with guqin music notation, only around 100 of them are still being played today. In this article we use a machine learning method to study the guqin music recovery problem which tries to use the guqin music notation to recover the duration of each music note. Information provided by the music note is used as features to predict the duration information with a support vector machine. The experimental result shows that our system can predict with fair accuracy, and can be used as a valuable reference for human guqin masters to recover guqin music.

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Yu MZhang MYu CMa XYang XZhang JKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)We Can Do More to Save Guqin: Design and Evaluate Interactive Systems to Make Guqin More Accessible to the General PublicProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445175(1-12)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445175

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Ancient Chinese zither (guqin) music recovery with support vector machine
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning

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Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage Volume 3, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/1841317

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Published: 07 October 2010

Accepted: 01 July 2010

Received: 01 September 2009

Published in JOCCH Volume 3, Issue 2

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Yu MZhang MYu CMa XYang XZhang JKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)We Can Do More to Save Guqin: Design and Evaluate Interactive Systems to Make Guqin More Accessible to the General PublicProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445175(1-12)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445175

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