Ensemble musicians' synchronization with conductors' gestures: An automated feature-extraction analysis

Music Perception

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-200

  Luck, Geoff ^a   Toiviainen, Petri ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Automatic feature extraction; Conducting; Gesture; Motion capture; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845883272     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2006.24.2.189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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