Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition and Computation

Anja Volk (Editor), Elaine Chew, Elizabeth Margulis (Editor), Christina Anagnostopoulou (Editor)

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Abstract

This special issue dedicated to the topic of music similarity is a follow-up to the workshop ‘Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition and Computation’, which was held at the Lorentz Center, International center for scientific workshops in Leiden, the Netherlands, 19–25 January 2015. The Lorentz workshop brought together 55 experts on music similarity from Computer Science, Musicology and Music Cognition in order to discuss cross-disciplinary strategies on the theoretical and computational modelling of music similarity. Main areas addressed during the workshop considered similarity computing, perception and cognition of similarity, similarity in music content (music analysis) and similarity in music expression. Participants discussed achievements, challenges and future goals of music similarity research for different aspects such as pattern extraction and similarity, processes of categorization, similarity across modalities, similarity and expressive performance, large-scale music similarity, similarity and style, salience and variation, similarity in composition, similarity in timbre, harmonic similarity, similarity and memory, and evaluation and similarity. The papers of this issue span the main areas of the workshop, namely similarity computing, perception and cognition of similarity, similarity in music content (music analysis) and similarity in music expression.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherTaylor Francis
Number of pages74
Volume45
ISBN (Electronic)1744-5027
ISBN (Print)0929-8215
Publication statusPublished - 29 Sept 2016
EventMusic Similarity: Concepts, Cognition and Computation - Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Duration: 19 Jan 201523 Jan 2015
https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/music-similarity-concepts-cognition-and-computation.html

Publication series

NameJOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH
PublisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
ISSN (Print)0929-8215

Keywords

  • music
  • similarity
  • music information research
  • computational

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