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Abstract: In this paper, we analyze four different methods for audio feature extraction and compare their efficiency in the context of musical instrument classification. We study spectrograms, Mel ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

Photo: Reeds in the Pines, featuring AZ Phil performers (left to right) Mary Jackson, clarinet, Chip King, bassoon and Mary Simon, oboe, playing at the Highlands Center’s Kiwanis Amphitheater ...

Lois Kuyper-Rushing, 70, serves as the LSU Libraries’ Associate Dean of Public & Collection Services. This year, she was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to travel to Valenciennes, France, to ...

Caigongzhuang, a town in Tianjin's Jinghai district, quietly produces more than half of the world's brass and woodwind instruments. Musicians around the globe are playing instruments crafted in its ...

Hilary Abigana lifts the golden flute to her lips and gently blows. And for a few magical seconds, the room resounds with melodies rich and sweet. It doesn’t take long for Abigana to make her point.

At the center of a concert that included symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven, “Kinsfolknem,” a three-movement fusion by composer Jasmine Barnes of classical structures and music with roots in ...

The gold paint on the interior of the Al Gallodoro Stage is the same shade used on the marquee of the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans, where the legendary woodwind musician performed as a teenager in ...