Computational Creativity is a multidisciplinary field that tries to obtain creative behaviors
from computers. One of its most prolific subfields is that of Music Generation (also called …

The regularities underlying the structure building of chord sequences, harmonic phrases,
and combinations of phrases constitute a central research problem in music theory. This …

In this work, a novel representation system for symbolic music is described. The proposed
representation system is graph-based and could theoretically represent music both from a …

The musical analysis of large-scale structures, such as the classical sonata form, requires to
integrate multiple analyses of local musical events into a global coherent analysis …

We propose a method for computing the similarity of symbolically-encoded Portuguese folk
melodies. The main novelty of our method is the use of a preprocessing melodic reduction at …

This paper describes an analyzer for detecting local grouping boundaries and generating
metrical structures of music pieces based on a generative theory of tonal music (GTTM) …

Musical grammar describes a set of principles that are used to understand and interpret the
structure of a piece according to a musical style. The main topic of this study is grammar …

Computational models of music, while providing good descriptions of melodic development,
still cannot fully grasp the general structure comprised of repetitions, transpositions, and …

The automatic recognition of scanned Medieval manuscripts written in square notation still
represents a challenge due to degradation, non-standard layouts, or notations. We propose …

The human ability to perceive and understand music is remarkable. From an unstructured
stream of acoustic input it creates a wide range of experiences, from psycho-acoustic effects …