A review of manual and computational approaches for the study of world music corpora
Maria Panteli, Emmanouil Benetos, Simon Dixon · Journal of New Music Research · 2018
The comparison of world music cultures has been a recurring topic in the field of musicology since the end of the nineteenth century. Recent advances in technology in the field of Music Information Retrieval allow for a large-scale analysis of music corpora. We review manual and computational approaches in the literature that fall within the scope of music corpus research and world music analysis. With a large-scale computational music corpus analysis in mind, we compare the tools and research questions addressed by each study and discuss strengths and weaknesses. Taking into account critical remarks from experts in the field and challenges involved in a large-scale computational analysis, we discuss how this line of research can be improved in future work.