This paper presents a corpus-based study on rhythmic patterns in the RAG-collection of approximately 11.000 symbolically encoded ragtime pieces. While characteristic musical features that define ragtime as a genre have been debated since its inception, musicologists argue that specific syncopation patterns are most typical for this genre. Therefore, we investigate the use of syncopation pattern...

Computational ethnomusicology (CE) refers to the use of computational techniques for the study of musics from around the world. It has been a growing field that has benefited from the the many advances that have been made in music information retrieval (MIR). The historical development of CE and the types of tasks that have been addressed so far, is traced in this paper. The use of computationa...

The analysis of large datasets of music audio and other representations entails the need for techniques that support musicologists and other users in interpreting extracted data. We explore and develop visualisation techniques of chord sequence patterns mined from a corpus of over one million tracks. The visualisations use different representations of root movements and chord qualities with geo...

A widely distributed online survey gathered quantitative and qualitative data relating to the use of technology in the research practices of musicologists. This survey builds on existing work in the digital humanities and provides insights into the specific nature of musicology in relation to use and perceptions of technology. Analysis of the data (n=621) notes the preferences in resource forma...

This paper describes VExPat, a system that assists on the task of extracting patterns from musical sequences. Although there are known algorithms that perform this task efficiently, none of the existing analysis tools provide this functionality. Furthermore, VExPat provides a user-friendly interface, with score visualization and musical execution facilities, allowing its use even by computer no...

The originality and flexibility of the physical modelling synthesizer Modalys is being continously validated by an ever-growing community of users made up of composers, acousticians and musicologists alike. In this paper we will present the main lines that have oriented recent research around Modalys. These can be summarized: (1) Exploration and tentative classification of the musical possibili...

After several years of research and development, PROBADO Music—a multimodal digital music library system—is now made available for the public. To allow access to anyone from anywhere, we have prepared a collection of public domain music material that is accessible through our system. Besides streaming and presenting digital music documents (scanned sheet music, audio recordings, and lyrics), PR...

Descriptive analysis of music corpora is important to musicologists who are interested in identifying the properties that characterize specific genres of music. In this study we present such an analysis of a large corpus of folk tunes, all labeled by their origin. Subgroup Discovery (SD) is a rule learning technique located at the intersection of predictive and descriptive induction. One of the...

Music21 is an object-oriented toolkit for analyzing, searching, and transforming music in symbolic (scorebased) forms. The modular approach of the project allows musicians and researchers to write simple scripts rapidly and reuse them in other projects. The toolkit aims to provide powerful software tools integrated with sophisticated musical knowledge to both musicians with little programming e...