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MIT 21M.383 Computational Music Theory and Analysis, Spring 2023

by MIT OpenCourseWare · 47 videos

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1 Video 0: Overview of 21M.383 Computational Music Theory for OCW Learners 1:28 2025-10-15
2 Class 1 Video: How Do Computers "Hear" Music? 54:36 2025-10-15
3 Video 1a: music21 Coding Tutorial for OCW Learners 11:57 2025-10-15
4 Class 2 Video: Representation of Notes, Pitches, and Durations 1:02:45 2025-10-15
5 Video 3a: Introduction to Pitch Representation 1:32 2025-10-15
6 Video 3b: Pitch Representation: Pros, Cons, and Stakeholders 2:45 2025-10-15
7 Video 3c: How to Approach the Problem Sets 4:26 2025-10-15
8 Class 4 Video: Intro to Scores and Music Representation 1:10:05 2025-10-15
9 Video 4a: How to Read an Academic Article 7:05 2025-10-15
10 Video 4b: Music Representation in General 8:24 2025-10-15
11 Class 5 Video: Music Representation (II) 51:49 2025-10-15
12 Video 6a: Music Representation (III): Unlocking Pitch in music21 18:21 2025-10-15
13 Video 6b: Representations of Ontologies: Craig Sapp’s Rosetta Stone 16:08 2025-10-15
14 Class 7 Video: Music Representation (IV) & Hierarchies (I) 1:06:22 2025-10-15
15 Video 7a: Unlocking Duration and Note Objects in music21 14:38 2025-10-15
16 Video 7b: Streams as Hierarchies: Types of Containers in music21 1:25 2025-10-15
17 Video 7c: music21 Streams, Corpus, and Meter Features 13:40 2025-10-15
18 Video 7d: Partwise vs. Timewise Polyphonic Representations 7:17 2025-10-15
19 Class 8 Video: Hierarchies (II): Streams and Recursions 44:47 2025-10-15
20 Video 9a: Music Information Retrieval (MIR): Sound to Score and Music Theory 13:14 2025-10-15
21 Video 9b: Introduction to MusicXML 11:20 2025-10-15
22 Video 9c: Interview with Michael Good on MusicXML 18:03 2025-10-15
23 Class 10 Video: Equivalence and Intervals (I); Hierarchies (IV) 1:03:52 2025-10-15
24 Video 10a: Review: Equivalence Classes and OPTIC 15:45 2025-10-15
25 Class 11 Video: Equivalence and Intervals (II) and Filters  in music21 54:32 2025-10-15
26 Video 12a: Painting Emotions in Music and Text 21:30 2025-10-15
27 Video 12b: Chorales as a Corpus 5:06 2025-10-15
28 Video 12c: Graphing and Plotting in music21 9:03 2025-10-15
29 Video 12d: How to Work with Ties in music21 5:59 2025-10-15
30 Class 13 Video: Corpus Studies and Statistics 58:11 2025-10-15
31 Class 14 Video: Corpus Studies and Statistics (II) 47:37 2025-10-15
32 Class 15 Video: Encoding Corpora and Voice Leading 1:03:13 2025-10-15
33 Class 17 Video: Introduction to Music Cognition 15:17 2025-10-15
34 Classes 18-21 Video: Brief Synopsis of Guest Sessions on Music Cognition 9:21 2025-10-15
35 Video 22a: Chord Review and 13 Chords: Some Problems with Roots 15:09 2025-10-15
36 Video 22b: Problem Sets 7-8: Working and Composing with Scales, Chords, and Roman Numerals 3:26 2025-10-15
37 Video 22c: Algorithmic Improvisation: Intro to George Lewis 2:18 2025-10-15
38 Class 23 Video: Algorithmic Composition 52:29 2025-10-15
39 Class 24 Video: Algorithmic Composition (II) 1:11:04 2025-10-15
40 Class 25 Video: Algorithmic Composition (III) 59:39 2025-10-15
41 Video 26a: Vocabulary Reduction 24:00 2025-10-15
42 Class 27 Video: Feature Extraction and Machine Learning 1:10:15 2025-10-15
43 Class 28 Video: Feature Extraction and Machine Learning (II) 51:10 2025-10-15
44 Video 29a: Feature Extraction and Machine Learning (III): Artificial Intelligence 1:10:55 2025-10-15
45 Class 30 Video: Mathematical and Statistical Musicology 1:02:21 2025-10-15
46 Class 31 Video: Music Visualization and Optical Music Recognition 54:19 2025-10-15
47 Video 32a: Tipping the Iceberg 19:35 2025-10-15

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