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Representing Musical Genre

A State of the Art

Bibliographic Data

ID5304804
AuthorsJean-Julien Aucouturier, Jean‐Julien Aucouturier (0000-0002-4477-4812, Sony Computer Science Laboratories), Fran Ois Pachet, Fran�ois Pachet
Year2003
Volume32
Issue1
Pages83-93
Publication date2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of New Music Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0929-8215 • E-ISSN: 1744-5027
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1076/jnmr.32.1.83.16801
OpenAlexW2159561775
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited3

Musical genre is probably the most popular music descriptor. In the context of large musical databases and Electronic Music Distribution, genre is therefore a crucial metadata for the description of music content. However, genre is intrinsically ill-defined and attempts at defining genre precisely have a strong tendency to end up in circular, ungrounded projections of fantasies. Is genre an intrinsic attribute of music titles, as, say, tempo? Or is genre a extrinsic description of the whole piece? In this article, we discuss the various approaches in representing musical genre, and propose to classify these approaches in three main categories: manual, prescriptive and emergent approaches. We discuss the pros and cons of each approach, and illustrate our study with results of the Cuidado IST project

Art · Linguistics · Literature · Metadata · Musical · World Wide Web · Computer Science · History · Music and Audio Processing · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Neuroscience and Music Perception

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Unique citing works21
Citations per year1
Citation span2005 - 2026 (22)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 20
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