Research

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Older Research Projects

Symbolic Music Processing: TAVERN Dataset

• Devaney, J. and C. Arthur. 2015. Developing a structurally significant representation of music audio through domain knowledge. In Late-Breaking Demo Session, ISMIR.
• Devaney, J., C. Arthur, N. Condit-Schultz, and K. Nisula. 2015. Theme And Variation Encodings with Roman Numerals: A new data set for symbolic music analysis. In Proceedings of ISMIR. 728–34.
• Devaney, J. and D. Shanahan. 2014. Evaluating Rule- and Exemplar-Based Computational Approaches to Modeling Harmonic Function in Music Theory Pedagogy. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology. 
• Funding
  Google Faculty Research Award (2014). Developing a language model and representations of symbolic music data for classification tasks. (Principal Investigator)
  

Experiments on Musical Performance Practices

• Devaney, J. 2016. Inter- versus intra-singer similarity and variation in vocal performances. Journal of New Music Research. 45 (3): 252-64.
• Devaney, J., J. Hockman, J. Wild, P. Schubert, and I. Fujinaga. 2013. Diatonic semitone tuning in two-part singing. Paper presented at Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference.
• Devaney, J. 2013. A study of intonation tendencies of solo versus ensemble singing. Paper presented at the Performance Studies Network Second International Conference.
• Devaney, J., J. Wild, and I. Fujinaga. 2011 Intonation in solo vocal performance: A study of semitone and whole tone tuning in undergraduate and professional sopranos. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science. 
• Devaney, J. 2011. An empirical study of the influence of musical context on intonation practices in solo singers and SATB ensembles. Ph. D. Dissertation. McGill University.
• Funding
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2011–12) Exploring vocal intonation practices in popular and non-western musics.  (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
  Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Programme appui à la recherche-création (2008–11) Les techniques vocales du repertoire microtonale historique adaptées à la pratique moderne. (Student Collaborator)
  

Digitizing the Performance Scores in the Publications from Carl Seashore’s Lab

• Devaney, J. 2015. Recapturing the musical performance data in Seashore’s published performance scores. Musicae Scientiae.
• Devaney, J. 2014. Digitization and analysis of Seashore’s historical music performance scores. Paper presented at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.
• Funding
  The Ohio State University, College of Arts and Sciences Larger Grant (2015) “Printed performances: Recovering Carl Seashore’s musical performance data from the 1920s and 1930s” (Principal Investigator)
  

Estimating Performance Data from Recordings: AMPACT

• Devaney, J. and M. Mandel. 2017. An evaluation of score-informed methods for estimating fundamental frequency and power from polyphonic audio. In Proceedings of ICASSP. 181–5.
• Devaney, J. and H. Léveillé Gauvin. 2016. Representing and linking music performance data with score information. In Proceedings of the 3rd International workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology. 1–8.
• Devaney, J. and D. Richardson. 2015. The influence of sung vowels on pitch perception. Paper to be presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting.
• Devaney, J. 2014. Estimating onset and offset asynchronies in polyphonic audio-to-score alignment. Journal of New Music Research. 43 (3): 266–75.
• Devaney, J. and D. Wessel. 2013. Pitch perception of time-varying sung tones. Presented at Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference.
• Devaney, J., M. I. Mandel, and I. Fujinaga. 2012. A Study of Intonation in Three-Part Singing using the Automatic  Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). In Proceedings of the 2012 International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.
• Devaney, J., M. I. Mandel, and I. Fujinaga. 2011. Characterizing Singing Voice Fundamental Frequency Trajectories. Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
• Devaney, J., M. I. Mandel, D. P. W. Ellis, and I. Fujinaga. 2010. Automatically extracting performance data from recordings of trained singers. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain. 21(1–2): 103–36.
• Devaney, J., M. I. Mandel, and D. P. W. Ellis. 2009. Improving MIDI-audio alignment with acoustic features. In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
• Devaney, J. and D. P. W. Ellis. 2009. Handing asynchrony in audio-score alignment. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Computer Music Conference.
• Devaney, J., and D. P. W. Ellis. 2008. An empirical approach to studying intonation tendencies in polyphonic vocal performances. Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies. 2(1-2):141-56.
• Funding
  • National Endowment for the Humanities (2015–16) (Digital Humanities Start Up Grant)
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2008–11) (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship)

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Much Older Research Projects

Pitch Spelling

• Devaney, J. 2005. Pitch Spelling: Towards a More Holistic Generalized Spelling Algorithm MA Paper. Columbia University.

Music of Elliott Carter

• Devaney, J. 2003. Some elements of structure in Elliott Carter’s Insomnia from A Mirror on Which to Dwell. Ex Tempore. 11(2)

Pedagogical Applications of Music Software

• Devaney, J. 2003. Reasonable Influences: The advantages and obstacles encountered with commercial software. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Computer Music Conference.

Composing in Alternative Temperaments

• Devaney, J. 2003. An algorithmic approach to composing for flexible intonation ensembles. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Computer Music Conference.
• Devaney, J. 2002. Sound Objects: Approaches to Composition in an Object-Oriented Paradigm. MA Thesis. York University.