Time fluctuation and susceptibility of the audience on piano performance

Abstract

The timing patterns of a music performance were mesured and analyzed statistically. One purpose of the study was to search for a timing pattern fluctuation. Five artists timing patterns served to search the structure of the piece, by detecting peaks waves in a phrase boundary. We applied power spector analysis to these timing patterns, and we learned the decay of power spector was over minus one. And 20 student listeners were nominated to evaluate performances of the artists by semantic differential method. A principal components analysis suggested that 7 pairs of presentation word were extracted to present the characteristics. Their judgments showed some significant relations to the timing patterns.