In this paper, we present a new corpus for research in computational ethnomusicology and automatic music transcription, consisting of traditional dance tunes from Crete. This rich dataset includes audio recordings, scores transcribed by ethnomusicologists and aligned to the audio performances, and meter annotations. A second contribution of this paper is the creation of an automatic music trans...

The present article deals with the question of musical universals, as analysed from a zoosemiotic, and zoomusicological in particular perspective, focusing on a specific portion named “structures”. By structures are meant the musical traits in themselves, as distinguished from the para-musical aspects – that is behavioural patterns related with music and the whole psycho-emotional dimension of ...

A common problem in comparative musicology and ethnomusicology is that large collections of music are difficult to classify and visualize. Therefore, a tool which could be applied to either acoustic signals or symbolic representations would be useful. The choice of the features that are extracted from a collection of music and subsequently used by the tool should be psychologically relevant for...