Music Query: Methods, Models, And User Studies (Computing in Musicology) - Softcover

 
9780262582568: Music Query: Methods, Models, And User Studies (Computing in Musicology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262582562 ISBN 13: 9780262582568
Publisher: Mit Pr, 2005

Synopsis

The field of music query has grown from tentative beginnings in bibliographical systems of earlier decades to a substantial area of interdisciplinary studies in little more than a decade. This volume assembles recent studies from Europe and North America concerned with the query and analysis of musical data. Among these, methods for the synchronization of sound and symbolic data, for automatic analysis through perceptual rules, and for computing a "transportation" distance for thematic comparison are described. The modeling of rhythmic motifs, of melodic traits, and of cognitive distance are discussed. User studies report on human preferences in modes of query (humming vs. tapping, etc.) and on the comparative success rates of more than two dozen proposed metrics for melodic comparison.

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About the Author

Walter B. Hewlett is Professor of Music at Stanford University.

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Publisher
Mit Pr
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0262582562
ISBN 13 
9780262582568
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192
Editor
Hewlett Walter B., Selfridge-Field Eleanor