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Hey, I know that guy!
Nov. 22nd, 2006 02:39 pmCheck it out: AP Science covers Alan Schultz at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence. I wasn't on the hide-and-seek project, but I've watched them do that demo.
Nov. 22nd, 2006
The harp teacher weighs in
Nov. 22nd, 2006 02:51 pmProbably the final installment in the "harp ornamentation" series...
I presented my musings to my teacher, Cynthia Cathcart, last night. Her take? "Arrange the ornamentation." I explained that I was looking for ways to improvise ornamentation, and she suggested her "bag of tricks" approach. Which is, essentially, learning lots and lots of ornaments and then sticking them in where they fit a given tune. We didn't get into details, but my feeling is that anything one calls a "bag of tricks" is learned mostly through application.
That is, while Cynthia did say that one can practice ornaments in isolation, it's more... natural? to learn them as preplanned parts of other pieces. Ornamental repertoire grows along with melody repertoire, and you have real experience in how they fit into a melody. That certainly makes a lot of sense.
I presented my musings to my teacher, Cynthia Cathcart, last night. Her take? "Arrange the ornamentation." I explained that I was looking for ways to improvise ornamentation, and she suggested her "bag of tricks" approach. Which is, essentially, learning lots and lots of ornaments and then sticking them in where they fit a given tune. We didn't get into details, but my feeling is that anything one calls a "bag of tricks" is learned mostly through application.
That is, while Cynthia did say that one can practice ornaments in isolation, it's more... natural? to learn them as preplanned parts of other pieces. Ornamental repertoire grows along with melody repertoire, and you have real experience in how they fit into a melody. That certainly makes a lot of sense.