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In this paper, we propose a paradigm for computer-based music retrieval and analysis systems that employs one or more explicit abstraction layers between the user and corpus– and representation–specific tools. With illustrations drawn from “battle music”, a genre popular throughout Renaissance Europe, we show how such an approach may not only be more obviously useful to a user, but also offer extra power through the ability to generalise classes of tasks across collections.
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Lewis, D., Crawford, T., Wiggins, G., Gale, M. (2006). Abstracting Musical Queries: Towards a Musicologist’s Workbench. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Voinier, T., Ystad, S. (eds) Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. CMMR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751069_22
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