Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A10511618" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:10511618 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17811476" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17811476</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17811476" target="_blank" >10.5281/zenodo.17811476</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music

Original language description

In learning music, difficulty is an important factor in choice of repertoire, choice of tempo, and structure of practice. These choices are typically done with the guidance of a teacher; however, not all learners have access to one. While piano and strings have had some attention devoted to automated difficulty estimation, wind instruments have so far been under-served. In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the difficulty of pieces for winds and implement it for the tenor saxophone. We take the cost-of-traversal approach, modelling the part as a sequence of transitions -- note pairs. We estimate transition costs from newly collected recordings of trill speeds, comparing representations of saxophone fingerings at various levels of expert input. We then compute and visualise the cost of the optimal path through the part, at a given tempo. While we present this model for the tenor saxophone, the same pipeline can be applied to other woodwinds, and our experiments show that with appropriate fe

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH23_025%2F0008691" target="_blank" >EH23_025/0008691: Human-centred AI for a Sustainable and Adaptive Society</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

ISBN

978-1-73272-995-7

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

747-754

Publisher name

Zenodo

Place of publication

Geneva, Switzerland

Event location

Daejeon, Korea

Event date

Sep 21, 2025

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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