Bow influence on violinist performance

Autor: TOMEZZOLI, Aurelie, MICHAUD, Benjamin, GAGNE, Eric, Begon, Mickaël, DUPREY, Sonia
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Biomécanique et Mécanique des Chocs (LBMC UMR T9406 ), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Gustave Eiffel, Université de Montréal (UdeM), Wilder & Davis, parent
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: FA 2020, Forum Acusticum 2020
FA 2020, Forum Acusticum 2020, Dec 2020, Lyon, France. 4p, ⟨10.48465/fa.2020.0697⟩
DOI: 10.48465/fa.2020.0697
Popis: FA 2020, Forum Acusticum 2020, Lyon, FRANCE, 07-/12/2020 - 11/12/2020; To date, it is not clear why a violinist prefers a bow over another. To investigate this issue, 10 expert violinists were asked to play the same score with 18 bow configurations, in a random order. The bow configurations were generated by modifying the camber of the same bow and by adding 1 or 2 g masses at the tip and/or the frog. Firstly, the violinists rated each bow configuration on a scale from 0 to 10, for the spiccato playing, the legato playing and in general. Secondly, one expert assessed the accuracy of the pitch, rhythmic precision, respect of articulation, and timbre flaw on the sound records. Lastly, audio-descriptors were calculated. Then, variables were normalized byviolinist, before performing ANOVAs: the explanatory variables were bow parameters and their interaction with the subject effect. It was found that the performance assessment by experts explained 6 to 20%, and audio-descriptors 6 to 17% of bow appreciation variances.Models containing both expert assessment variables and audio-descriptors explained 14 to 22% of bow appreciation variances. Thus, violinists assessed the bows partly by accounting for their acute ability to play properly the musical score, and the timbre of the violin.
Databáze: OpenAIRE