New York University

New York University’s Music Technology Program and Library Services will research and develop content-based approaches to automatic organization of, access to, and interaction with digital music archives. This research concentrates on encoding musical attributes, such as harmony and rhythm, to represent and characterize similarities that exist between songs and phrases, and showing how these methodologies can provide users with innovative modes of access to music. This project has the potential to increase the scalability and reduce the cost of music analysis and markup, while increasing access and dissemination of music in existing collections. These results can improve current practices in digital libraries, bolstering their ability to preserve and disseminate culture and ehance music education and research.