Contents

• Project base
  • Motivation - Project Goal
    • Music, teaching and computer science
    • Why a ``Virtual Music Teacher'' ?
  • Background - Existing systems
    • Score Following
    • Speech Recognition
  
  
• Definitions
  • User study
  • Input/Output definition
    • Input Data
    • Output Data
  • Evaluation Criteria
    • Error types
    • Tolerence - Threshold values
  • Score Definition
    • Needed data
    • jMax Sequence object
    • Score text file
    • Data overview
  • General program structure
  
  
• Score and performance acquisition - model creation
  • Score acquisition
    • Score text file syntax
    • Data read from text file
  • Data structures
    • Used structures
    • Numeric values calculation
  • jMax sequence object creation
  • MIDI performance acquisition
    • Data acquisition
    • Circular buffer storage
  
  
• Error detection and classification
  • Error checking function
  • Note errors detection
    • Indicators
    • Algorithm
    • Possible problems
  • Rhythm errors detection
    • Indicators
    • Algorithm
  • Dynamic errors detection
    • Indicators
    • Algorithm
  • Main algorithm overview
  
  
• Error Signalisation
  • Real time Online signalisation
    • Immediate ``bang''
    • Console printing with short explaination
  • Report edition
    • Storing errors
    • Retrieve Musical data from numeric data
    • Output file
  
  
• First results
  • Small sequences with computer generated performances
    • Note errors
    • Rhythm errors
    • Dynamic errors
    • Overview
  • Real scores
    • With computer generated performances
    • With played and recorded performances
  • Results overview
  
  
• Adaptation to audio input
  • Performance acquisition
    • Get spectrum via Fast Fourier Transformation
    • Structure changes
  • Changes in model
    • New structure audioparam_t
    • Harmonic Filters calculation
  • Changes in detection algorithm
  
  
• Conclusion and outlook
  • Summary - Realised work
  • Work to do - Future work
    • Untreated cases
    • Adaptation to polyphonic music
    • New features - improvements
  
  
• Enquiry for music teachers
• Virtual Music Teacher: mididetector user guide
  • Generalities about jMax and jMax objects
  • Score creation
  • Parameter initialisation
    • Objects to insert and to connect
    • Set detection parameters
    • Load your score
  • Make it work !
  
  
• Bibliography