Publications

Farbood, M. M. & Harwood, D. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Musical Structure across Cultures and Disciplines. Oxford University Press.

Farbood, M. M. (2023). Automated composition using musical tension profiles as constraints. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC17-APSCOM7), 62-63. Tokyo, Japan.

Farbood M. M. (2023). Commentary on Zhou and Fabian (2021). Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1), 326-327.

Pelofi, C. & Farbood, M. M. (2021). Asymmetry in scales enhances learning of new musical structures.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(31). [Link]

Farbood, M. M. (2021). Review of Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art by David Huron. Music Theory Spectrum, 43(2), 364–369. [Link]

Vander Wilt, D., & Farbood, M.M. (2021). Deploying prerecorded audio description for musical theater using live performance tracking. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12631, 181-189. Springer Verlag.

Vander Wilt, D. & Farbood, M. M. (2020). A new approach to creating and deploying audio description for live theater. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 1-11. Available on line May 2020. [Springer pdf]

Vander Wilt, D. & Farbood, M. M. (2019). Live audio description (AD): Syncing pre-recorded AD tracks to a live musical theater performance. In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’19). Pittsburgh, PA. [pdf]

Vander Wilt, D. & Farbood, M. M. (2019). Method and system for aligning audio description to a live musical theater performance. In M. Aramaki, O. Derrien, R. Kronland-Martinet, & S. Ystad (Eds.), (pp. 103-111). Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR). Marseille, France. [pdf]

Vander Wilt, D. & Farbood, M. M. (2019). Automating audio description for live theater: Using reference recordings to trigger descriptive tracks in real time. In Proceedings of ACM Audio Mostly (AM ’19). Nottingham, UK. *Received Best Paper Award [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. & Mavromatis, P. (2018). The mutability of pitch memory in a tonal context. Psychomusicology, 28(1), 1-16. [Link] [pdf]

Tsang, G. J. Y., Dana, E. L., Farbood, M. M., & Levi, S. V. (2018). Musical training and the perception of phonetic detail in a shadowing task. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(3), 1922. [Link]

McFee, B., Nieto, O., Farbood, M. M., & Bello, J. P. (2017). Evaluating hierarchical structure in music annotations Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 1337. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. & Price, K. (2017). The contribution of timbre attributes to musical tension. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(1), 419-427. [Link] [pdf (corrected)]

Farbood, M. M. (2016). Memory of a tonal center after modulation. Music Perception, 34(1), 71-93. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2016). Modeling audiovisual tension. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 62-63. San Francisco, USA. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., Heeger, D., Marcus, G., Hasson, R., & Lerner, Y. (2015). The neural processing of hierarchical structure in music and speech at different timescales. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 157. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., Rowland, J., Marcus, G., Ghitza, O., & Poeppel, D. (2015). Decoding time for the identification of musical key. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77(1), 28-35. [Springer pdf] [MS pdf]

Farbood, M. M., & Price, K. (2014). Timbral features contributing to perceived auditory and musical tension. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Seoul, Korea. [pdf]

Nieto, O. & Farbood, M. M. (2014). Identifying polyphonic musical patterns from audio recordings using music segmentation techniques. Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014). Taipei, Taiwan. [pdf]

Nieto, O., Farbood, M. M., Jehan, T., & Bello, J. P. (2014). Perceptual analysis of the F-measure for evaluating section boundaries in music. Proceedings of the 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014). Taipei, Taiwan. [pdf]

Nieto, O., & Farbood, M. (2014). Music segmentation techniques and greedy path-finder algorithm to discover musical patterns. Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). Taipei, Taiwan. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., & Upham, F. (2013). Interpreting expressive performance through listener judgments of musical tension Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 998, 1-15. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., Marcus, G., & Poeppel, D. (2013). Temporal dynamics and the identification of musical key. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(4), 911-918. [link] [pdf]

Nieto, O., & Farbood, M. (2013). Discovering musical patterns using audio structural segmentation techniques. Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). Curitiba, Brazil. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2012). A parametric, temporal model of musical tension. Music Perception, 29(4), 387-428. [pdf]

Nieto, O. & Farbood, M. M. (2012). Perceptual evaluation of automatically extracted musical motives. In E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsougras, P. Mavromatis, & K. Pastiades (Eds.), (pp. 723-727). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Thessaloniki, Greece. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2012). Memory of a prior key after modulation. In E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsougras, P. Mavromatis, & K. Pastiades (Eds.), (288). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Thessaloniki, Greece. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., Ghitza, O., Rowland, J., Marcus, G., & Poeppel, D. (2012). How fast can music and speech be perceived? Key identification in time-compressed music with periodic insertions of silence. In E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsougras, P. Mavromatis, & K. Pastiades (Eds.), (pp. 290-291). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Thessaloniki, Greece. [pdf]

Mavromatis, P. & Farbood, M. M. (2012). The effect of tonal context on short-term memory for pitch. In E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsougras, P. Mavromatis, & K. Pastiades (Eds.), (674-675). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Thessaloniki, Greece. [pdf]

Ein Lämmlein: 17th-Century German Passion Music. (CD released 2011). Teares of the Muses, the New York University Collegium Viol Consort, directed by Margaret Panofsky, Morwaread Farbood, organ. [Amazon]

Farbood, M. M., Marcus, G., Mavromatis, P., & Poeppel, D. (2010). The effect of structure and rate variation on key-finding. In S. M. Demorest, S. J. Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), (pp. 36-40). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, USA. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2010). Working memory and the perception of hierarchical tonal structures. In S. M. Demorest, S. J. Morrison, & P. S. Campbell (Eds.), (pp. 219-222).Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition. Seattle, USA. [pdf]

Andreopoulou, A. & Farbood, M. M. (2010). Short-term pitch memory in western vs. other equal temperament tuning systems. In E. Gómez, P. Herrera, & R. Ramírez (Eds.), (pp. 491-495). Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computer Conference. Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. & Schoner, B. (2009). Determining feature relevance in subject responses to musical stimuli. Communications in Computer and Information Science: Mathematics and Computation in Music, 38, 115-129. Springer Verlag. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2009). Review of Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann’s Instrumental Works by Steven Zohn. Early Music America, Spring 2009. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2008). Review of Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti: Two Lives in One by Roberto Pagano. Early Music America, Spring 2008. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M. (2008). A global model of musical tension. In K. Miyazaki, Y. Hiraga, M. Adachi, Y. Nakajima, & M. Tsuzaki (Eds.), (pp. 690-695). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition. Sapporo, Japan. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., Kaufman, H., & Jennings, K. (2007). Composing with Hyperscore: An intuitive interface for visualizing musical structure. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conference, 111-117. San Francisco: ICMA [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., Pasztor, E., & Jennings, K. (2004). Hyperscore: A graphical sketchpad for novice composers. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 24(1), 50-54. [pdf]

Farbood, M. M., & Schoner, B. (2001). Analysis and synthesis of Palestrina-style counterpoint using Markov chains. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Computer Music Conference, 471-474. San Francisco: ICMA. [pdf]