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Knowledge of the key of a musical passage is a pre-requisite for all the analyses that require functional labelling. In the past, people from either a musical or AI background have tended to solve the problem by means of implementing a computerized version of musical analysis. Previous attempts are discussed and then attention is focused on a non-analytical solution first reported by J.A.Gabura. A practical way to carry it out is discussed as well as its limitations in relation to examples. References are made to the MusicXML format as needed.
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Bellmann, H. (2006). About the Determination of Key of a Musical Excerpt. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Voinier, T., Ystad, S. (eds) Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. CMMR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751069_7
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