Understanding the Language of Music : Extracting Musical Features for Etude Generation

Abstract

In recent years there has been a focus on the accessibility and equity of music instruction in under-served communities. The value of private/guided instruction is clear, but the question of reaching students from lower economic classes presents challenges our current educational system struggles to address. The Blugold Computational Music Suite (BCMS) is a system that supports novice to intermediate musicians in their musical goals by giving them access to computer generated lessons that mimic what a private instructor would assign to them. This work investigates methods for extracting data and metadata from musical selections for automatic music generation. The focus of this work is to identify ways of extracting and storing extracted musical features that will be useful for generating etudes for musical instruction.