21M.383 | Spring 2023 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Computational Music Theory and Analysis

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A list of the videos in this course.

Video 0: Overview of 21M.383 Computational Music Theory for OCW Learners
Class 1 Video: How Do Computers "Hear" Music?
Video 1a: music21 Coding Tutorial for OCW Learners
Class 2 Video: Representation of Notes, Pitches, and Durations
Video 3a: Introduction to Pitch Representation
Video 3b: Pitch Representation: Pros, Cons, and Stakeholders
Video 3c: How to Approach the Problem Sets
Class 4 Video: Intro to Scores and Music Representation
Video 4a: How to Read an Academic Article
Video 4b: Music Representation in General
Class 5 Video: Music Representation (II)
Video 6a: Music Representation (III): Unlocking Pitch in music21
Video 6b: Representations of Ontologies: Craig Sapp’s Rosetta Stone
Class 7 Video: Music Representation (IV) & Hierarchies (I)
Video 7a: Unlocking Duration and Note Objects in music21
Video 7b: Streams as Hierarchies: Types of Containers in music21
Video 7c: music21 Streams, Corpus, and Meter Features
Video 7d: Partwise vs. Timewise Polyphonic Representations
Class 8 Video: Hierarchies (II): Streams and Recursions
Video 9a: Music Information Retrieval (MIR): Sound to Score and Music Theory
Video 9b: Introduction to MusicXML
Video 9c: Interview with Michael Good on MusicXML
Class 10 Video: Equivalence and Intervals (I); Hierarchies (IV)
Video 10a: Review: Equivalence Classes and OPTIC
Class 11 Video: Equivalence and Intervals (II) and Filters  in music21
Video 12a: Painting Emotions in Music and Text
Video 12b: Chorales as a Corpus
Video 12c: Graphing and Plotting in music21
Video 12d: How to Work with Ties in music21
Class 13 Video: Corpus Studies and Statistics
Class 14 Video: Corpus Studies and Statistics (II)
Class 15 Video: Encoding Corpora and Voice Leading
Class 17 Video: Introduction to Music Cognition
Classes 18-21 Video: Brief Synopsis of Guest Sessions on Music Cognition
Video 22a: Chord Review and 13 Chords: Some Problems with Roots
Video 22b: Problem Sets 7-8: Working and Composing with Scales, Chords, and Roman Numerals
Video 22c: Algorithmic Improvisation: Intro to George Lewis
Class 23 Video: Algorithmic Composition
Class 24 Video: Algorithmic Composition (II)
Class 25 Video: Algorithmic Composition (III)
Video 26a: Vocabulary Reduction
Class 27 Video: Feature Extraction and Machine Learning
Class 28 Video: Feature Extraction and Machine Learning (II)
Video 29a: Feature Extraction and Machine Learning (III): Artificial Intelligence
Class 30 Video: Mathematical and Statistical Musicology
Class 31 Video: Music Visualization and Optical Music Recognition
Video 32a: Tipping the Iceberg

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