Advances in Music Information Retrieval

From the reviews:

“Ras and Wieczorkowska have compiled a 17-paper book that gives readers a glimpse into some of the current research approaches … . The 400-page book is structured into four parts. … The book gathers the contributions of almost 50 authors. … will provide readers who are interested in music information retrieval with a fair description of the state of the art of this economically important research domain.” (P. Jouvelot, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2010)

“Music is both a science and an art. All of its different dimensions, whether melody, rhythm, timbre, mood, harmony, or counterpoint, are of interest to users of music information retrieval (MIR) systems. … This book’s aim is to popularize the research trends in the area of MIR. … I strongly recommend this gem of a book for scientific libraries.” (Soubhik Chakraborty, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2011)