Computational Music Structure Analysis: Report of Dagstuhl Seminar 16092

Meinard Müller*, Elaine Chew, Juan Bello

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Music is a ubiquitous and vital part of the lives of billions of people worldwide. Musical creations and performances are among the most complex and intricate of our cultural artifacts, and the emotional power of music can touch us in surprising and profound ways. In view of the rapid and sustained growth of digital music sharing and distribution, the development of computational methods to help users find and organize music information has become an important field of research in both industry and academia. The Dagstuhl Seminar 16092 was devoted to a research area known as music structure analysis, where the general objective is to uncover patterns and relationships that govern the organization of notes, events, and sounds in music. Gathering researchers from different fields, we critically reviewed the state of the art for computational approaches to music structure analysis in order to identify the main limitations of existing methodologies. This triggered interdisciplinary discussions that leveraged insights from fields as disparate as psychology, music theory, composition, signal processing, machine learning, and information sciences to address the specific challenges of understanding structural information in music. Finally, we explored novel applications of these technologies in music and multimedia retrieval, content creation, musicology, education, and human-computer interaction. In this report, we give an overview of the various contributions and results of the seminar. We start with an executive summary, which describes the main topics, goals, and group activities. Then, we present a list of abstracts giving a more detailed overview of the participants’ contributions as well as of the ideas and results discussed in the group meetings of our seminar.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)147-151
Number of pages5
JournalDagstuhl Reports
Volume6
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Aug 2016
EventDagstuhl Seminar 16092: Computational Music Structure Analysis - Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz Center for Informatics , Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany
Duration: 28 Feb 20164 Mar 2016
Conference number: 16092
https://www.dagstuhl.de/16092

Keywords

  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Music Processing
  • Music Perception and Cognition
  • Music Composition and Performance
  • Knowledge Representation
  • User Interaction and Interfaces
  • Audio Signal Processing
  • Machine Learning

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