Special Issue on Computational Modeling in Music

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Journal of the German Society of Music Theory

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie
Online Version and Print Version

Special Issue
Computational Modeling in Music
Guest Editor: Anja Volk

The Journal of the German Society for Music Theory Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie is planning a special issue on computational modeling in music. The journal has both online and print versions.

This special issue focuses on the knowledge about fundamental concepts in music research that has been generated within the process of computational modeling in areas such as music theory, analysis, retrieval and cognition.

Computational models about music are often built on concepts derived from music research outside computation, such as music theory. This special issue focuses on the contribution of computational models to the understanding of the concepts developed in music research.

How does the computational modeling contribute to verifying or falsifying concepts from music research?
To what extent have computational models hence changed (or confirmed) our understanding of music?
What are important questions about music that computational modeling would pose to music research?

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

harmony and tonality
counterpoint
melodic and motivic analysis
style recognition
rhythm and meter

Submission details

!NEW! Submission Deadline extended: September 8, 2008.

Prospective authors are requested to submit a hard copy of the manuscript and two electronic copies (a Word document that is identical with the printed copy and a plain text document without formatting).
For each article an abstract of 1000-2000 characters and 5-10 keywords should be provided.
Authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses, as well as a short biography of approximately 500-2000 characters.
Figures must be saved separate to text.
Papers should not exceed 33000 characters (no space) which corresponds to approximately 12 pages in the journal.
Submissions in English are highly encouraged.
Submissions should be sent to the guest editor.

All submissions will be refereed.

For questions about the suitability of prospective submissions please contact the guest editor:

Anja Volk
Postbus 94264,
1090 GG Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
Email: anja . volk "[at]" meertens . knaw . nl