IDEAS FOR PAPERS & TOPICS TO PRESENT FOR I545/N364/N5645 These are just ideas; feel free to suggest anything else that seems relevant. Note: the music-IR bibliography on my website has comments on many of these, as well as listing many other papers that might be suitable. The list of papers on the ISMIR website is also worth looking at, especially since it has links to 95 percent of them. MUSIC REPRESENTATION Byrd, Donald, & Isaacson, Eric (2003). A Music Representation Requirement Specification for Academia. Computer Music Journal 27(4), pp. 43-57. Revised (2005) version available at http://variations2.indiana.edu/system_design.html Castan's Music Notation Links: Musical notation codes. http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/notationformats.html Roger Dannenberg's (1993) Music Representation Issues, Techniques, and Systems. Computer Music Journal 17(3), pp. 20-30, and/or Wiggins, Miranda, Smaill, & Harris's (1993) A Framework for the Evaluation of Music Representation Systems. Computer Music Journal 17(3), pp. 31-42. Hawley, Michael J. (1990). The Personal Orchestra, or, Audio Data Compression by 10000:1. Usenix Computing Systems Journal 3(2), pp. 289Ñ329. Moore, F. Richard (1988). The dysfunctions of MIDI. Computer Music Journal 12, no.1, pp. 19Ñ28 (available in the Music Library). Seeger, Charles (1958, April). Prescriptive and Descriptive Music Writing. Musical Quarterly 44(2), pp. 184Ñ195. Selfridge-Field, Eleanor (1997). Describing Musical Information. In Selfridge-Field, E., ed. (1997) Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes, pp. 3-38. Compare two formats for encoding music notation. Reasonable candidates include abc, GUIDO, MEI, MusicXML, NIFF. Other suggested topics: lossy compression --------------------------- MUSIC RETRIEVAL BY CONTENT Aloupis, Greg; Fevens, Thomas; Langerman, Stefan; Matsui, Tomomi; Mesa, Antonio; Nu–ez, Yurai; Rappaport, David; & Toussaint, Godfried (2006 Fall). Algorithms for Computing Geometric Measures of Melodic Similarity. Computer Music Journal 30,3, pp. 67Ñ76. McKay, Cory; McEnnis, Daniel; & Fujinaga, Ichiro (2006). A Large Publicly Accessible Database of Annotated Audio for Music Research. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006), Victoria, Canada, pp. 160Ñ163. Meek, Colin, & Birmingham, William (2002). Johnny CanÕt Sing: A Comprehensive Error Model for Sung Music Queries. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002), pp. 124Ñ132. MIREX (2006). Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange. http://www.music-ir.org/mirexwiki/index.php/Main_Page Orio, Nicola (2006). Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval 1,1. Retrieved January 27, 2007, from the World Wide Web: http://www.omras.org Pampalk, Elias, Dixon, Simon, & Widmer, Gerhard (2004). Exploring Music Collections by Browsing Different Views. Computer Music Journal 28(2), pp. 49Ñ62. Pickens, J., et al (2002), Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach. Wang, Avery (2003). An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003), Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 7-14 Thematic catalogs & dictionaries of musical themes: e.g., compare Barlow, Harold & Morgenstern, Sam (1948). A Dictionary of Musical Themes to Parsons, Denys (1975). The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes. Other suggested topics: Humdrum, audio mosaicing, Themefinder --------------------------- MUSIC RETRIEVAL BY METADATA / DIGITAL MUSIC LIBRARIES Dunn, Jon; Byrd, Donald; Notess, Mark; Riley, Jenn; & Scherle, Ryan (2006, August). Variations2: Retrieving and Using Music in an Academic Setting. Communications of the ACM 49,8, pp. 53Ñ59. ID3. The ID3 audio file data tagging format. http://www.id3.org/Home McKay, Cory & Fujinaga, Ichiro (2006). Musical Genre Classification: Is it worth pursuing and how can it be improved? In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006), Victoria, Canada, pp. 101Ñ106. Riley, Jenn (2005). Exploiting Musical Connections: A Proposal for Support of Work Relationships in a Digital Music Library. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), London, England, pp. 123Ñ129. Vellucci, Sherry (1997). Bibliographic Relationships in Music Catalogs. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Other suggested topics: something about how useful Music Recommender Systems (FOAFing the Music, Last.fm, MusicIP Mixer, Musicmatch Jukebox, MusicStrands, Pandora, etc.) really are.