Math & Music: The Perfect Match

Elaine Chew

Math & Music: The Perfect Match

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Operations research is a field that prides itself in its versatility in the mathematical modeling of complex problems to find optimal or feasible solutions. It should come as no surprise that O.R. has much to offer in terms of solving problems in music composition, analysis and performance. Operations researchers have tackled problems in areas ranging from airline yield management and computational finance, to computational biology and radiation oncology, to computational linguistics, and in eclectic applications such as diet formulation, sports strategies and chicken dominance behavior, so why not music?
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The goal of this article is to provide broader perspectives on the growth and maturation of music and computing as a discipline, resources to learn more about the field, and some ways in which operations research impacts – and can influence – this rapidly expanding field. My objective is to show that music – its analysis, composition and performance – presents rich application areas for O.R. techniques.

Original language	English
Volume	35
No.	3
Specialist publication	ORMS Today
Publisher	INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2008

Keywords

math and music
music technology
automated music analysis
computational music analysis
computational music structure analysis
computer assisted composition
music generation
human-machine improvisation
music expression synthesis

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https://doi.org/10.1287/orms.2008.03.12

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O.R. and music generation: The role of operations research in state-of-the-art automatic composition systems: challenges and opportunities.
Herremans, D. & Chew, E., 5 Feb 2018, ORMS Today, 45, 1.
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Computational Music Structure Analysis (Dagstuhl Seminar 16092)
Müller, M. (Editor), Chew, E. & Bello, J. (Editor), 17 Aug 2016, 1 ed. Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. 44 p. (Dagstuhl Reports; vol. 6, no. 2)
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Mathemusical Conversations: Foreword by Workshop Organisers
Chew, E., Assayag, G. & Lansky, B., 2016, Mathemusical Conversations: Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance Composition. Vol. 32. p. ix-xii 4 p. (Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore; vol. 32).
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Math & Music: The Perfect Match

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O.R. and music generation: The role of operations research in state-of-the-art automatic composition systems: challenges and opportunities.

Computational Music Structure Analysis (Dagstuhl Seminar 16092)

Mathemusical Conversations: Foreword by Workshop Organisers

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