TITLE:
Automatic Accompaniment to Arab Vocal Improvisation: From Technical to Commercial Perspectives
AUTHORS:
Fadi M. Al-Ghawanmeh, Zaid R. Shannak
KEYWORDS:
Music Informatics, Entrepreneurial Web Business, Automatic Accompaniment, Arab Music, Survey Research
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
13,
2015
ABSTRACT: In this multidisciplinary study, the main
research question was how to improve the value of entrepreneurial initiatives
that provide the web service of automatic accompaniment to Arab singing. As an
example and case study, we considered the Mawaweel website that offered an
automatic accompaniment to Arab vocal improvisation as a main service. After
overviewing the website, we conducted a survey examining the satisfaction of
its visitors in regard to presentation and quality of service. It was found
that the Mawaweel website had potential to achieve success as the majority of
the 22 respondents expressed general satisfaction after their first visit to
the website, with an average rate of 75%. However, respondents’ ratings were
strict when discussing specific aspects about the website presentation and
service quality, and the means of average rates were 68.32% and 50.23%
respectively. The standard deviations of average rates were 15.70% and 19.13%,
respectively. This revealed a sense of inhomogeneity in the values of the
different aspects of the website presentation, and an expanded sense of
inhomogeneity in the quality of the different services delivered by the
website. We then compared the Mawaweel website to other websites and proposed
specific improvements to the aspects with average rate below 50%.