This poster presents a digital library proposal conceived for people interested in acquiring knowledge about Brazilian popular music harmony, particularly in Choro. This Brazilian musical style is a complex popular music form based on improvisation, although it contains classical music elements such as the counterpoint. We are proposing two ways of accessing the music virtual library content: a...

Music genre meta-data is of paramount importance for the organization of music repositories. People use genre in a natural way when entering a music store or looking into music collections. Automatic genre classification has become a popular topic in music information retrieval research. This work brings to symbolic music recognition some technologies, like the stochastic language models, alrea...

Music genre meta-data is of paramount importance for the organization of music repositories. People use genre in a natural way when entering a music store or looking into music collections. Automatic genre classification has become a popular topic in music information retrieval research both with digital audio and symbolic data. This work focuses on the symbolic approach, bringing to music cogn...

In this work we perform a fractal analysis of 160 pieces of music belonging to six different genres. We show that the majority of the pieces reveal characteristics that allow us to classify them as physical processes called the 1/f (pink) noise. However, this is not true for classical music represented here by Frederic Chopin’s works and for some jazz pieces that are much more correlated than t...

In most popular music, the vocals sung by the lead singer are the focal point of the song. The unique qualities of a singer’s voice make it relatively easy for us to identify a song as belonging to that particular artist. With little training, if one i s familiar with a particular singer’s voice one can usually recognize that voice in other pieces, even when hearing a song for the first time. T...

In this paper we present a descriptive study of perceived intensity in popular music. We have designed a taxonomy for the purpose, and created an intensity model based on low-level descriptors extracted from an objective data set, which can reliably predict a category label for the “subjective intensity” of most popular music recordings.

Female rock musicians have had difficulty making it in the predominantly white male rock world. Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald note that women’s participation in rock music usually consists of bolstering male performance, in the roles of groupie, girlfriend, or back-up singer (257). Even in punk rock, women are often treated as a novelty by the music press and cultural critics. Male bands such ...

In the original invitation to the constructively titled colloquium ‘Renegotiating Musicology,’ of which this article is a result, organisers suggested that participants should feel free to think as broadly as possible about their particular places in the discipline. This is an unusually fraught request with regard to the musicological study of popular music. As several respected scholars have n...

Hindi film music, which is commonly referred to as “Bollywood” music, is one of the most popular forms of music in the world today. One of the reasons for its popularity has been the willingness of Bollywood composers to adopt and be influenced by various musical forms including Western pop, jazz, rock, and classical music. However, till date, we are unaware of any systematic quantitative analy...

This paper studies the problem of building clusters of music tracks in a collection of popular music in the presence of constraints. The constraints come naturally in the context of music applications. For example, constraints can be generated from the background knowledge (e.g., two artists share similar styles) and the user access patterns (e.g., two pieces of music share similar access patte...