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CMMR 2008: Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music pp 67–80Cite as

Chunking Sound for Musical Analysis

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One intriguing issue in music analysis is that of segmentation, or parsing, of continuous auditory streams into some kinds of meaningful and analytically convenient units, a process that can be denoted as chunking. The purpose of this paper is to present a theory of chunking in musical analysis based on perceptual features of sound and on our own research on musical gestures, suggesting that music-related actions are essential in the process of chunking.

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  1. Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, P.B. 1017 Blindern, N-0315, Oslo, Norway

    Rolf Inge Godøy

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  1. CNRS Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, 31 chemin Joseph-Aiguier, 13402, Marseille Cedex 20, France

    Sølvi Ystad

  2. CNRS-LMA, 31, Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402, Marseille Cedex 20, France

    Richard Kronland-Martinet

  3. Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohr Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Kristoffer Jensen

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Godøy, R.I. (2009). Chunking Sound for Musical Analysis. In: Ystad, S., Kronland-Martinet, R., Jensen, K. (eds) Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music. CMMR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5493. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02518-1_4

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