CSC484A/CSC589A/MUS490/MUS590

(Music Information Retrieval )

Taught by:  George Tzanetakis
(http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~gtzan)
gtzan@cs.uvic.ca

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MIR is a new research area so there is no textbook that can directly be used. However a lot of relevant material can be found. The following books are examples of books I have found interesting and useful in my own research and teaching of MIR.
  1. A Digital Signal Processing Primer (with applications to Digital Audio and Computer Music) - Ken Steiglitz, Addison-Wesley
    (great introductory book to DSP. Most of the material I covered in the beginning of the class about complex numbers, sinusoids, Fourier Series and the DFT was based on this book)
  2. Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications - Perry Cook, A.K Peters (another introductory book with DSP material investigating the physics and mathematics for creating sounds aimed at computer games and virtual reality)

Journal and Conference articles


  1. "Interdisciplinary Communities and Research Issues in Music Information Retrieval" - Joe Futrelle and J.Stephen Downie in Proc. of Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002 - pdf 
  2. "ARTHUR: Retrieving Orchestral Music by Long-Term Structure" - Jonathan Foote, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2000 - pdf
  3. Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Music Modeling" - Beth Logan, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2000 - pdf
  4. "Toward instrument segmentation for music content description: a critical review of instrument classification techniques" - P.Herrera, X.Amatriain, E.Batlle, X.Serra, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Plymouth, Massachusetss, 2000 - pdf
  5. "An audio front end for Query-by-Humming Systems" - G.Hauss, E. Pollastri, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001 - pdf
  6. "Thematic extractor" - C.Meek, W. Birmingham, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001 - pdf
  7. "Automatic Musical Genre Classification" - G.Tzanetakis, G. Essl, P. Cook, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001 - pdf
  8. "A Naturalist Approach to Music File Name Analysis" - F. Pachet and D. Laigre. Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001 - pdf
  9. "Figured Bass and Tonality Recognition" - J. Brarthelemy and Alain Bonardi. Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Bloomington, Indiana, 2001 - pdf
  10. "Indexing Music Databases Using Automatic Extraction of Frequent Phrases" Anna Pienimaki. Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002 - pdf
  11. "Combining Musical and Cultural Features for Intelligent Style Detection", Brian Whitman and Paris Smaragdis, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002 - pdf
  12. "The MACSIS Acoustic Indexing Framework for Music Retrieval: An Experimental Study", Cheng Yang, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002 - pdf
  13. "Pattern Discovery Techniques for Music Audio", Roger Dannenberg and Ning Hu, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002 - pdf
  14. "Automatic Music Summarization via Similarity Analysis", Matthew Cooper and Jonathan Foote, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002 - pdf
  15. "Query-by-beatboxing: music retrieval for the DJ", A. Kapur, M.Benning, and G. Tzanetakis, Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Barcelona, Spain, 2004 - pdf
  16. "Implicit patching for dataflow-based audio analysis and synthesis", S. Bray and G. Tzanetakis (submitted to Int. Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2005 - pdf