This project will gather c.23,000 hours of digitised music with a breathtaking range of styles, regions and time periods: A Capella to Zydeco, Appalachia to Zambia, and Medieval to Post-Modern and develop tools to tag and analyse the underlying structures that underpin global music.

Structural analysis of large amounts of music information (Salami)

This project will be conducting a formal analysis of ~350,000 pieces of music from all over the world, far exceeding anything that has been achieved before. Formal analysis provides an overall view of the structure of a piece of music. The availabilty of such a large corpus of music that is already analysed will be a great asset to music scholars offering new perspectives and insights previously unavailable. For example, they will be able to study the popularity or decline of various forms over time and geographical space as well as discover evolutionary and revolutionary changes in musical forms.

Project Staff

Project Directors

Project management UK team

  • Principal Investigator: David De Roure, University of Southampton
  • Project Manager: Kevin Page, University of Southampton
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Summary
Start date
1 April 2010
End date
30 September 2011
Funding programme
Digitisation and Content
Strand
Digging into data challenge
Project website
Lead institutions

University of Southampton (until July 2010)
University of Oxford (from July 2010)

Partner institutions
Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Committees
  • JISC Infrastructure and Resources Committee
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