Motivated by the growing importance of social media, this paper examines the relationship between new media, old media, and sales, in the context of the music industry. In particular, we study the interplay between blog buzz, radio play and music sales, at both the album and song levels of analysis. We employ the Panel Vector Auto-regression (PVAR) methodology, an extension of vector auto-regre...

In this paper, the problem of automatically assigning a piece of traditional Turkish music into a class of rhythm referred to as usul is addressed. For this, an approach for rhythmic similarity measurement based on scale transforms has been evaluated on a set of MIDI data. Because this task is related to time signature estimation, the accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated and compared wi...

XML promises to provide a powerful interoperable general framework for the development of music representation systems. Unfortunately current XML encoding systems for music focus almost exclusively on Western music from the 17 century onwards, and on the Western notation system, Common Music Notation (CMN). This is regrettably limiting, with cultural, theoretical, and practical consequences for...