Music Embedding: A Tool for Incorporating Music Theory into Computational Music Applications
This provides a tool for researchers and developers in computational music to incorporate music theory into applications, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing representation challenges.
The paper tackled the disconnect between music theory and computational music by developing an open-source representation tool based on music theory, demonstrating its usefulness through analysis of classical music pieces.
Advancements in the digital technologies have enabled researchers to develop a variety of Computational Music applications. Such applications are required to capture, process, and generate data related to music. Therefore, it is important to digitally represent music in a music theoretic and concise manner. Existing approaches for representing music are ineffective in terms of utilizing music theory. In this paper, we address the disjoint of music theory and computational music by developing an opensource representation tool based on music theory. Through the wide range of use cases, we run an analysis on the classical music pieces to show the usefulness of the developed music embedding.