Music & construction
The history and musical use of the instrument are considered alongside its materials, geometry and playing techniques. The research documents seven instruments.
WHERE MUSIC MEETS RESEARCH
The Pontic lyra.Ask the research.
One instrument. Many stories. A study of its construction, its sound and its musical life.
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The thesis studies the Pontic lyra as a musical instrument, a constructed object and a listening experience. It connects the documentation of seven instruments with acoustic measurements, audio analysis and digital modelling.
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Chapter 00 · §0.1
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The research records the materials and geometry of the instruments. Its aim is to examine how these relate to the measurements and to what listeners hear.
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Chapter 00 · §0.5 and Chapter 06 · §6.7
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Music information retrieval (MIR) describes aspects of sound using measurable features. The thesis includes spectral centroid, inharmonicity, attack time and roughness.
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Chapter 04 · §4.5
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The virtual instrument connects measurements with sound synthesis. The aim is to examine whether properties of the real instruments can be transferred to a playable digital model.
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Chapter 10 · §10.1
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BEHIND THE QUESTIONS
The instrument comes first.
Musicology, acoustics and computing meet in the study of the bottle-shaped Pontic lyra, also known internationally as the kemenche.
Sound & listening
Acoustic measurements and music information retrieval (MIR) describe the sound. The study also examines how listeners perceive the instrument’s timbre.
From measurement to instrument
Physical modelling connects analysis with synthesis. The aim is a virtual instrument with parameters derived from the research measurements.
Doctoral research
Μουσικολογική, Ακουστική και Πληροφορική Μελέτη της Φιαλόσχημης — Ποντιακής Λύρας
Ιωάννης Χαρ. Πεϊκίδης
Department of Music Studies · National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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