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title: "Music Information Processing System and Its Applications to Comparative Musicology"
authors:
  - "Yasuaki Nakamura"
  - "Seiji Inokuchi"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/138"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0138.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
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# Music Information Processing System and Its Applications to Comparative Musicology

Yasuaki Nakamura, Seiji Inokuchi

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

In the application of digital data processing techniques to comparative musicology, it is an interesting subject to determine the type of scale in folk musi c and to compare the similarities in melody and rhythm between different musics. This paper describes two subjects: data entry technique for the realization of a music database and its application to comparative musicology. The former deals with dictation of melody sound. The latter concerns a method to find what scale is included in the melody, using knowledge in the modern ethno-musicology, and describes a certain measure of similarity of music.