Music Information Retrieval Research
Searching Music Databases
- "Music Database Retrieval Based on Spectral Similarity" by Yang, C. at Stanford University
- "Querying Large Collections of Music for Similarity" by Welsh, M. et. al. at UC Berkeley
- "ARTHUR: Retrieving Orchestral Music by Long-Term Structure" by Foote, J. at FXPAL
- "Transform-Based Indexing of Audio Data for Multimedia Databases" by Subrammanya, S.R. et al. at George Washington University
- "Musical Information Retrieval Using Musical Parameters" by Lemstrom, K. and Laine, P. at University of Helsinki
- "Hierarchical System for Content-based Audio Classification and Retrieval" by Zhang, T. and Kuo, J. at University of Southern California
- "Phrase Based Feature Extraction for Musical Information Retrieval" Yanase, T. at University of Tokyo
- "Content-based Classification and Retrieval of Audio Using the Nearest Feature Line Method", by Li, S.Z. at Nanyang Technological University
Melody Spotting
- "Melody Spotting Using Hidden Markov Models" by Durey, A. and Clements, M. at Georgia Institute of Technology
- "Retrieving Music -- To Index or not to Index" by Lemstrom, K, Haapaniemi, A., and Ukkonen, E at University of Helsinki
- "Music Summarization using Key Phrases" by Logan, B. and Chu, S. at Cambridge Research Laboratories
- "Music Information Retrieval System using Complex-valued Recurrent Neural Networks" by Kataoka, M, Kinouchi, M., and Hagiwara, M. at Keio University
Musical Property Identification
Beat and Rhythm Tracking
- "Real-time Rhythm Tracking for Drumless Audio Signals -- Chord Change Detection for Musical Decisions" by Goto, M. and Muraoka, Y. at Waseda University
- "Tracking Musical Beats in Real Time" by Allen, P. and Dannenberg, R. at Carnegie Mellon University
- "Tempo and Beat Analysis of Acoustic Musical Signals" by Schierer, E. at MIT
- "A Model for Musical Rhythm" by Bilmes, J. at MIT
- "A Beat Tracking System for Audio Signals" by Dixon, S. at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Musical Instrument Identification
- "Musical Instrument Identification: A pattern-recognition approach" by Martin, K. and Youngmoo, E.K. at MIT
- "Classification of Musical Instrument Sounds Using Neural Networks" by Cemgil, A.T. and Gurgen, F. at Bogazici University
Note Extraction
Other
- "Music Content Analysis through Models of Audition" by Martin, K., Schierer, E., and Vercoe, B. at MIT
- "Music-Listening Systems", Ph.D. thesis of Eric Schierer at MIT
- "Melodic Clustering: Motivic Analysis of Schumann's Traumerei"by Cambouropoulos, E. and Widmer, G. at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- "A Real-Time Music Scene Decription System: Detecting Melody and Bass Lines in Audio Signals" by Goto, M. and Hayamizu, S.
Internet Music Representation
- "Music Tagging Type Definitions" by Boehm, C. and MacLellan, D at University of Glasgow
- "Content Based Retrieval and Navigation of Music" by Blackburn, S. at University of Southampton
Music And Psychology
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Erickson R. (1982). New Music and Psychology. In Deutsch
D. (Ed.) The Psychology of Music, New York
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Zentner M. R. and Kagan J. (1996). Perception of music by infants, Nature,
383, 29
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Jones, M.R., Dynamics of Musical Patterns: How do Melody and Rhythm Fit
Together?, in Psychology and Music. The Understanding of Melody and Rhythm,
T.J. Tighe and W.J. Dowling, Editor. 1993, Academic Press: London. p. 67-92
Other Interesting Music Papers
- "Bregman's Chimerae: Music Perception as Auditory Scene Analysis" by Schierer, E. at MIT
- "Music Monitor: Ambient Musical Data for the Home" by Tran, Q. and Mynatt, E. at Georgia Institute of Technology
- "Music and Emotion: Perceptual Determinants, Immeadiacy, and Isolation after Brain Damage" by Peretz, I., Gagnon, L. and Bouchard, B. at University of Montreal
Books
- Bregman, Albert, Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound, MIT Press, 1994
- Handel, Stephen, Listening: An Introduction to the Perception of Auditory Events, MIT Press, 1989
- Marc Leman, Music and Schema Theory - Cognitive Foundations of Systematic Musicology, Springer-Verlag, 1995.
- Marc Leman (ed.) Music, Gestalt, and Computing - Studies in Cognitive Systematic Musicology , Springer-Verlag, 1997.
- W. J. Dowling and D. L. Harwood, Music Cognition, Academic Press, 1986.
- D. Deutsch, The Psychology of Music 2nd Ed., Academic Press, 1999.