The early hopes for the Seeger melograph, a device for recording the pitch and intensity of vocal performances, have not been realized because musicologists found the graphic traces of pitch and intensity too difficult to interpret. In this article, proposals are advanced for redesigning the melograph to provide researchers with more symbolically meaningful information. This involves abandoning...

Musicologists and sociologists have long been interested in patterns of music consumption and their relation to socioeconomic status. In particular, the Omnivore Thesis examines the relationship between these variables and the diversity of music a person consumes. Using data from social media users of Last.fm and Twitter, we design and evaluate a measure that reasonably captures diversity of mu...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) involves searching and organising large collections of music, or music information, according to their relevance to specific queries. This is particularly relevant given the vast quantities of musical information available in digital format, and the popularity of music-related digital services. The last four years have seen the introduction of a major conferenc...

This article offers a formal analysis of Tōru Takemitsu’s composition November Steps and discusses the composer’s statements that piece has eleven variations (that he calls “Steps”) is an equivalent Western Theme Variations form as well Japanese traditional called danmono. There discrepancy between these music’s temporal organization. Not too much been written about Steps, musicologists have do...

In the 19th century, German Protestant hymns were translated into English and have been sung in its language area. By evangelizing Korea, Western – including some church introduced. However, it is noticeable that content as well linguistic musical differences between Korean versions could occur translation process. This paper examines one particular hymn, namely “Christ Receiveth Sinful Men”, w...

Most of our work in the humanities is increasingly driven by digital technology. Musicology is no exception and the field is undergoing the same revolution as all disciplines in the humanities. There are at least two key areas in which digital technology is transforming research: access and scale. Technology, and the internet in particular, has radically changed how we can access data, but also...

This round table grew out of two gatherings in 2018–19 that endeavoured to bring musicologists into dialogue with recent revisions the history international relations. 1 Our specific focus was interwar period, more often discussed terms nationalism – or perhaps at best transnationalism than within context internationalism, a principle lay behind foundation elite governmental organizations such ...

Abstract Groove, as a musical quality, is an important part of jazz and pop music appreciative practices. Groove talk widespread among musicians audiences, considerable importance placed on generating appreciating grooves in music. However, musicians, musicologists, audiences use groove attributions variety ways that do not track one consistent underlying concept. I argue there at least two dis...

Two main groups of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems for content-based searching can be distinguished, systems for searching audio data and systems for searching notated music. There are also hybrid systems that first transcribe audio signal into a symbolic description of notes and then search a database of notated music. An example of such music transcription is the work of Klapuri [10...