Representing Musical Genre : A State of the Art. Aucouturier, J. & Pachet, F. Journal of New Music Research, 32(February 2015):83–93, 2003.
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Musical genre is probably the most popular music descrip- tor. 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 intrinsi- cally ill-defined and attempts at defining genre precisely have a strong tendency to end up in circular, ungrounded projec- tions 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.
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	title = {Representing {Musical} {Genre} : {A} {State} of the {Art}},
	volume = {32},
	doi = {10.1076/jnmr.32.1.83.16801},
	abstract = {Musical genre is probably the most popular music descrip- tor. 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 intrinsi- cally ill-defined and attempts at defining genre precisely have a strong tendency to end up in circular, ungrounded projec- tions 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.},
	number = {February 2015},
	journal = {Journal of New Music Research},
	author = {Aucouturier, Jean-julien and Pachet, François},
	year = {2003},
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	pages = {83--93},
}

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