Music informatics

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Music informatics is a study of music processing, [1] in particular music representations, fourier analysis of music, music synchronization, music structure analysis and chord recognition. [1] [2] Other music informatics research topics include computational music modeling (symbolic, distributed, etc.), [2] computational music analysis, [2] optical music recognition, [2] digital audio editors, online music search engines, music information retrieval and cognitive issues in music. Because music informatics is an emerging discipline, it is a very dynamic area of research with many diverse viewpoints, whose future is yet to be determined.

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Music informatics in education

Music informatics, as a degree subject, offers a similar learning experience to music technology, but goes further into learning the principles behind the technology. [3] Informatics students will not just use existing music hardware and software, but will learn programming and artificial intelligence.

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References

  1. 1 2 Müller, Meinard (2015). Fundamentals of Music Processing: Audio, Analysis, Algorithms, Applications. Springer International Publishing. ISBN   978-3-319-21944-8.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Music Informatics Interest Group | SMT". societymusictheory.org.
  3. "Music Informatics". University of Sussex. Retrieved 2008-04-20.