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tisdag 4 december 2007

Describe how to analyze music

Please describe ow you analyze music.
One of the hardest questions to answer but we begin to quote some articles to get a basic grip.
"Music Understanding refers to the recognition or identification of structure and pattern in musical information."
"Much of the work on perception and understanding of music by computers has focused on low-level perceptual features such as pitch and tempo. "

You can begin to list the three most important basics when analyzing music:
Style Classification, using computers and machine learning to label different styles of music.
Music Information Retrieval, especially systems that search using melodies as a query (query-by-humming).
Structural Analysis, systems that analyze music to obtain a description such as AABA, or discover other patterns.
Music Alignment, systems that time-align two performances or match symbolic representations to audio


We will go into this in upcoming articles on this blog. Stay tuned and learn to analyze music, the pro and novice way.