Ichiro Fujinaga Peabody

The Computermusic Department at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University

MUMT 621 — Assignment 5 Automatic Chord Extraction

Music Information Retrieval , Musicology , and Musical Genre

Young Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music in Computer

Their decades of experience in connection with computer music were essential to the inception and progress of my research. Dr. Fujinaga, as professor, mentor, and friend, deserves particular recognition for helping me to stay focused, challenging me to learn what I thought I already knew, and introducing me to our wonderful community. He will always be sensei. I also owe particular gratitude to...

Retrieval of percussion gestures using timbre classification techniques

CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES Adam Tindale Music Technology McGill University Ajay Kapur Electrical Engineering University of Victoria George Tzanetakis Computer Science University of Victoria Ichiro Fujinaga Music Technology McGill University ABSTRACT Musicians are able to recognise the subtle differences in timbre produced by different playing techniques on an instrument, yet there has been littl...