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PROBLEM:
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How can we characterize musical styles and cultures?
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APPROACH:
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Various approaches, including discriminant analysis,
principal components analysis, cladistics.
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For analyzing cultural features, we look for musical features
that correlate with physical location.
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Density of Tonic-Terminating Phrases in European Folksongs.
The map shows a culture-related feature centered in Austria/Bohemia, with
continental musical influences blocked by mountains and facilitated by
river valleys.
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EVALUATION:
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Categorization experiments.
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APPLICATION:
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Automated style characterization for musical web crawlers.
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REFERENCES:
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Aarden & Huron. "Analyzing geographical aspects of music."
Computing in Musicology, in press.
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