Computational Musicology, Algorithms, and Datasets

Algorithms

1. Precison, Recall, F1-score
2. Frequency analysis
3. Hipothesis tests
4. Effect-size
5. Cluster analysis (dendrograms, k-means)
6. Principal component analysis
7. Entropy
8. Support Vector Machine
9. Hidden Markov Models
10. Neural Newtorks (Convolutional and Long-short term memory)
11. TF-IDF distribution (term frequency-inverse document frequency)
12. Latent Semantic Analysis
13. String alignment
14. Strings similarity
15. Longest common substring and subsequence (LCS)
16. Edit distance (between strings and between trees)
17. Latent Dirichlet Allocation
18. Kullback-Leibler

Datasets

1. KernScores
2. Music21
3. ABC Beethoven
4. Troubador Melodies Database
5. Cantus Database
6. GregoBaseCorpus
7. Weimar Jazz Database
8. RAG-C Database (Ragtime)
9. McGill Billboard
10. Spotify (Metadata)
11. LastFM (Metadata)
12. e-chords
13. Ultimate guitar
14. Chordify.net
15. Lakh MIDI Dataset (LMD)
16. Chordify Annotator Subjectivity Dataset

Bibliography

2020

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2019

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2018

26. Bigo, Louis, Laurent Feisthauer, Mathieu Giraud, and Florence Levé. 2018. “Relevance of Musical Features for Cadence Detection.” In Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Paris. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01801060/.
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