Visualization in comparative music research

  • Petri Toiviainen
  • Tuomas Eerola
Conference paper

Abstract

Computational analysis of large musical corpora provides an approach that overcomes some of the limitations of manual analysis related to small sample sizes and subjectivity. The present paper aims to provide an overview of the computational approach to music research. It discusses the issues of music representation, musical feature extraction, digital music collections, and data mining techniques. Moreover, it provides examples of visualization of large musical collections.

Key words

Music computational musicology musical data mining visualization 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Petri Toiviainen
    • 1
  • Tuomas Eerola
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of MusicUniversity of JyväskyläFinland

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