We provide a survey of the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), in particular paying
attention to latest developments, such as semantic auto-tagging and user-centric retrieval …

The increasing availability of music in digital format needs to be matched by the
development of tools for music accessing, filtering, classification, and retrieval. The research …

Sequences of feature vectors are a natural way of representing temporal data. Given a
database of sequences, a fundamental task is to find the database entry which is the most …

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts
and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book'Music and …

Recent years have seen enormous advances in computerization and digitization as well as
a corresponding growth in the use of information technology allowing users to access and …

An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis Enables readers to understand the algorithmic
analysis of musical audio signals with AI-driven approaches An Introduction to Audio …

Music signal processing may appear to be the junior relation of the large and mature field of
speech signal processing, not least because many techniques and representations …

A cover version is an alternative rendition of a previously recorded song. Given that a cover
may differ from the original song in timbre, tempo, structure, key, arrangement, or language …

BeatRoot is an interactive beat tracking and metrical annotation system which has been
used for several years in studies of performance timing. This paper describes improvements …

Music can be described and represented in many different ways, including as sheet music,
symbolic representations, and audio recordings (Müller, 2015). For each of these …