Melodic Similarity: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications covers a
wide range of approaches to some fundamental questions
about music. What is similarity in music? How do we
recognize it? How can we program computers to recognize
it?
This issue's contributions cover (1)
concepts and procedures, (2) tools and applications, (3)
human melodic judgments, and (4) online tools for
melodic searching. They bring together theoretical
prespetives and practical results from the domains of
computer sience, and netowrk models, from folk-music
archives and bibliographics collaborations, from
algorithmic composition and classical music-history, from
ethnomusicology and social psychology, and from case law
in claims of popular-music plagiarism.
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