From audio encoders to piano judges: Benchmarking performance understanding for solo piano

H Zhang, J Liang, S Dixon - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.04518, 2024 - arxiv.org
Our study investigates an approach for understanding musical performances through the
lens of audio encoding models, focusing on the domain of solo Western classical piano …

LLaQo: Towards a Query-Based Coach in Expressive Music Performance Assessment

H Zhang, V Cheung, H Nishioka, S Dixon… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Research in music understanding has extensively explored composition-level attributes
such as key, genre, and instrumentation through advanced representations, leading to cross …

Can audio reveal music performance difficulty? insights from the piano syllabus dataset

P Ramoneda, M Lee, D Jeong… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatically estimating the performance difficulty of a music piece represents a key
process in music education to create tailored curricula according to the individual needs of …

Predicting performance difficulty from piano sheet music images

P Ramoneda, JJ Valero-Mas, D Jeong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Estimating the performance difficulty of a musical score is crucial in music education for
adequately designing the learning curriculum of the students. Although the Music …

Hybrid models of piano instruction: How combining traditional teaching methods with personalized AI feedback affects learners' skill acquisition, self-efficacy, and …

S Wang - Education and Information Technologies, 2025 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI), due to its extensive capabilities for analyzing incoming information
and providing personalized and detailed feedback, has significant potential for use in …

Towards Explainable and Interpretable Musical Difficulty Estimation: A Parameter-efficient Approach

P Ramoneda, V Eremenko, A D'Hooge… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Estimating music piece difficulty is important for organizing educational music collections.
This process could be partially automatized to facilitate the educator's role. Nevertheless, the …

Neural audio synthesis of realistic piano performances

L Renault - 2024 - theses.hal.science
Musician and instrument make up a central duo in the musical experience. Inseparable, they
are the key actors of the musical performance, transforming a composition into an emotional …