Peachnote: Music Score Search and Analysis Platform

Hundreds of thousands of music scores are being digitized by libraries all over the world. In contrast to books, they generally remain inaccessible for content-based retrieval and algorithmic analysis. There is no analogue to Google Books for music scores, and there exist no large corpora of symbolic music data that would empower musicology in the way large text corpora are empowering computational linguistics, sociology, history, and other humanities that have printed word as their major source of evidence about their research subjects. We want to help change that. In this paper we present the first result of our work in this direction the Music Ngram Viewer and search engine, an analog of Google Books Ngram Viewer and Google Books search for music scores.