Getting closer to the essence of music: The con espressione manifesto. Widmer, G. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 8(2):1–14, 2016.
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This text offers a personal and very subjective view on the current situation of Music Information Research (MIR). Motivated by the desire to build systems with a somewhat deeper understanding of music than the ones we currently have, I try to sketch a number of challenges for the next decade of MIR research, grouped around six simple truths about music that are probably generally agreed on but often ignored in everyday research.

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