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The Symbolic vs. Numeric Controversy in Automatic Analysis of Music
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@MISC{Mouton_thesymbolic,
author = {Remy Mouton and Francois Pachet},
title = {The Symbolic vs. Numeric Controversy in Automatic Analysis of Music},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This position paper describes two families of approaches to automatic analysis of tonal music: approaches based on purely numerical computations, and approaches based on symbolic models. Both approaches have been used in our team with great success, but they address different levels of difficulties, and aim at analyzing different corpus of musical material. Indeed, they are difficult to reconcile and use in a single collaborative environment. We claim that finding ways to integrate smoothly both approaches is the only real bottleneck to producing reliable automatic harmonic analyzers. 1. Introduction Humdrum [Huron, 1994] is a set of general-purpose software tools developed at university of Waterloo (Canada), intended to assist researchers in posing and answering research questions. Humdrum is one of the most ambitious attempts so far at providing computational power to musicians in order to perform complex analysis of musical pieces. In the Faq file of the Humdrum package, one can r...
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automatic analysis numeric controversy symbolic v faq file research question great success introduction humdrum huron musical piece different corpus complex analysis musical material general-purpose software tool different level tonal music reliable automatic harmonic analyzer numerical computation position paper symbolic model computational power single collaborative environment real bottleneck ambitious attempt humdrum package
