Recent Work In Music Understanding

musical performances and synchronize prestored computer music accompaniments. The Interaction with computers in musical third project is a system for analyzing the performances is very much limited by a lack harmonic and rhythmic content of an of music understanding by computers. If improvised solo in order to follow a jazz computers do not understand musical improvisation. This work led to further structures such as rhythmic units, chords, investigations of the ‘‘foot-tapping’’ or beat keys, and phrases, then interaction with detection problem. Music understanding and computers will necessarily be difficult and intelligence have been applied in the Piano cumbersome. Research into Music Tutor, which is the fifth project described. Understanding by computer aims to raise the One of the results of this work is a better level of human computer interaction in appreciation of the difficulty of these tasks. musical tasks including live music Some directions for future research and performance. conclusions are given following the descriptions of Music Understanding projects.