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A framework for the real-time analysis of musical events

A framework for the real-time analysis of musical events
A framework for the real-time analysis of musical events
In this thesis I propose a framework for the real-time creation of a harmonic structural model of music. Unlike most uses of computing in musicology which are based on batch processing, the framework uses publish/subscribe messaging techniques found in business systems to create an interconnected set of collaborating applications within a network that process streamed events of the kind generated during a musical performance. These applications demonstrate the transformation of data in the form of MIDI commands into information and knowledge in the form of the music’s harmonic structure represented as a model using semantic web techniques.
With such a framework, collaborative performances over the network become possible with a shared representation of the music being performed accessible to all performers both human and potentially software agents. The framework demonstratesnovel real-time implementations of pitch spelling, chord and key extraction algorithms interacting with semantic web and database technologies in a collaborative manner. It draws on relevant research in information science, musical cognition, semantic web and business messaging technologies to implement a framework and set of software components for the real-time analysis of musical events, the output of which is adescription of the music’s harmonic structure. Finally, it proposes a pattern based approach to querying the generated model which suggests a visual query and navigation paradigm.
Ibbotson, John Bryan
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Ibbotson, John Bryan
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De Roure, David
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Ibbotson, John Bryan (2009) A framework for the real-time analysis of musical events. University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Doctoral Thesis, 145pp.

Record type: Thesis (Doctoral)

Abstract

In this thesis I propose a framework for the real-time creation of a harmonic structural model of music. Unlike most uses of computing in musicology which are based on batch processing, the framework uses publish/subscribe messaging techniques found in business systems to create an interconnected set of collaborating applications within a network that process streamed events of the kind generated during a musical performance. These applications demonstrate the transformation of data in the form of MIDI commands into information and knowledge in the form of the music’s harmonic structure represented as a model using semantic web techniques.
With such a framework, collaborative performances over the network become possible with a shared representation of the music being performed accessible to all performers both human and potentially software agents. The framework demonstratesnovel real-time implementations of pitch spelling, chord and key extraction algorithms interacting with semantic web and database technologies in a collaborative manner. It draws on relevant research in information science, musical cognition, semantic web and business messaging technologies to implement a framework and set of software components for the real-time analysis of musical events, the output of which is adescription of the music’s harmonic structure. Finally, it proposes a pattern based approach to querying the generated model which suggests a visual query and navigation paradigm.

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Published date: April 2009
Organisations: University of Southampton

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Local EPrints ID: 66195
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66195
PURE UUID: 4b9b8a05-e7c2-4378-9ce0-7cf8d7cfc73d
ORCID for David De Roure: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3016

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Date deposited: 12 May 2009
Last modified: 13 Mar 2024 18:11

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Author: John Bryan Ibbotson
Thesis advisor: David De Roure ORCID iD

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