My Visit at Stanford

1
My Visit at Stanford

• Arbee L.P. Chen
• 1/6/03 2/8/03

2
The Environment

• My Host Eleanor Selfridge-Field at CCARH
• CCARH and CCRMA
• Center for Computer Assisted Research in the
  Humanities (Director Walter B. Hewlett)
• Center for Computer Research in Music and
  Acoustics (Director Chris Chafe)
• My Office The Trailer

3
Activities

• Gave a talk at Music 253/CS 275A on Music
  Information A Database Perspective
• Gave a talk at the CCRMA Colloquium on The
  Effectiveness Study of Music Retrieval
  Approaches
• Attended Music 253/CS 275A classes
• Attended Johan Sundbergs talks
• Attended the Database Lunches with a discussion
  on Optimization of Continuous Queries in a Data
  Stream Management System
• Advised Unjung Nam on audio retrieval
• Discussed with researchers at CCARH, including
  David Huron, Eleanor Selfridge-Field and Walter
  Hewlett

4
Lessons Learned

• Music notations MIDI/MuseData/ SCORE/Finale/
  Kern/MusicXML
• Music modeling at CCARH and the MAKE Lab
• Various tools (links from http//www.ccarh.org)
• Cakewalk MIDI sequencer with a conversion to
  staff
• Humdrum/Kern (Beyond MIDI) MS1
• Themefinder ( CIM 11)
• Music Animation Machine (http//www.well.com/user/
  smalin/)
• Finale/SharpEye from scanner output to MusicXML
  to MIDI (http//www.recordare.com) MS1
• Music analysis
• Sachiko Deguchi Koto Score - Japanese
  traditional music structural analysis
  (http//koto.sapp.org/) MS1
• Masato Yako CIM 11
• Jane Singer CIM 12
• Emilios Cambouropoulos

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Lessons Learned

• Music analysis
• Music often composed as A A A B A A B A B C A C
  end
• number of consecutive repetitions of A reduced
  from 3 to 2 to 1
• Habituation Theory
• variations of A exist
• Prototypical melody (searching for center)
• Phrase segmentation (CIM 10)
• Johan Sundberg making sense of music and music
  emotions (http//www.speech.kth.se/music/) MS1

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Documents Obtained

• Three books
• Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound An
  Introduction to Psychoacoustics
• Composing Music with Computers
• The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
• Computational Music Analysis System
  (http//www.link.cs.cmu.edu/cbms/) MS1
• Four Issues of Computing in Musicology
• Papers
• Unjung Nam
• Jane Singer
• David Cope

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Plan for Future Research

• Audio Music Retrieval Calvin Yan and Unjung Nam
  (Ryan)
• Music Segmentation (Jesse)
• Approximate Matching (Irene)
• Music XML Modeling (WenWen)
• Polyphonic Music Analysis (Greg)
• Music Structural Analysis (Lance/Eddie)
• MIDI and MuseData (Jie)