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Probado Music: a Multimodal Online Music Library

After several years of research and development, PROBADO Music—a multimodal digital music library system—is now made available for the public. To allow access to anyone from anywhere, we have prepared a collection of public domain music material that is accessible through our system. Besides streaming and presenting digital music documents (scanned sheet music, audio recordings, and lyrics), PR...

Faust Music Online (review)

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A key signature is a collection of paths in pitch-class space. As such, it provides a powerful tool for thinking about voice leading, one that can be used to answer familiar objections to the very notion of a voice leading between pitch-class sets. I begin by generalizing the traditional Western system of musical notation, defining paths in pitch-class space, and showing that key signatures are...

Music IR for Music Theory

“Academic musicians,” students and faculty in schools of music, have music IR needs that differ from those of the mass-market consumer. This paper describes the characteristics of this user group, the types of musical information they use and how they use them, and the kinds of IR tasks they need to perform. A section describes the special needs of the music theorist. Finally, the implications ...