Welcome to FMA 2017
The 7th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis will take place in Malaga, Spain, 14-16 June 2017. This International Workshop brings together researchers from the field of ethnomusicology and the field of computational and analytical musicology.
FMA 2017 will provide the attendants with a fantastic forum to share research, thoughts, needs and discoveries between ethno-musicologists, musicians, librarians, students, museum curators, computer science experts and music information retrieval researchers to foster the creation of cross-disciplinary collaborative networks and the development of new interdisciplinary tools, methods, techniques and ideas to promote the enrichment of music, specially folk music and the preservation and dissemination of World's musical cultural heritage.
Topics
The workshop will deal with musicology, ethnology, engineering and computer sciences including signal processing, pattern recognition, applied mathematics, etc.
Computational (ethno)musicology
Retrieval systems for non-western and folk musics
New methods for music transcription
Statistical approaches to music
Empirical approaches to music
Folk music classification systems
Models of oral transmission of music
Cognitive modelling of music
Aesthetics and related philosophical issues
Methodological issues
Representational issues and models
Audio and symbolic representations
Formal and computational music analysis
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