Searching and organizing growing digital music collections requires automatic classification of music. This paper describes a new system, tested on the task of artist identifica...
Persian music has had a profound effect on various Eastern musical cultures, and also influenced Southern European and Northern African music. The Santur, a hammered dulcimer, is ...
MUCOSA (Music Content Semantic Annotator) is an environment for the annotation and generation of music at different levels of abstraction. It is composed of three tiers: an annota...
In this paper we propose a text represention for musical chord symbols that is simple and intuitive for musically trained individuals to write and understand, yet highly structure...
Christopher Harte, Mark B. Sandler, Samer A. Abdal...
This paper describes a music analyzing system called the automatic time-span tree analyzer (ATTA), which we have developed. The ATTA derives a time-span tree that assigns a hierar...
This paper describes a visual playlist creation method based on a previously designed visualization technique for large music collections. The method gives users high-level contro...
Most music processing attempts to focus on one particular feature or structural element such as pitch, beat location, tempo, or genre. This hierarchical approach, in which music i...
This paper describes a novel music playback interface, called Musicream, which lets a user unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. With...
In this article we describe an optical recognition system for historic lute tablature prints that we have built with the aid of the Gamera toolkit for document analysis and recogn...
The paper presents a grounded theory analysis of 395 user responses to the survey question, “What is the worst song ever?” Important factors uncovered include: lyric quality, ...
Sally Jo Cunningham, J. Stephen Downie, David Bain...