---
title: Software for Music Analysis
canonical: https://0110.be/posts/Software_for_Music_Analysis
markdown_url: https://0110.be/posts/Software_for_Music_Analysis.md
id: 383
published_at: '2011-12-02T00:00:00Z'
updated_at: '2016-08-22T13:10:11Z'
author: Joren
tags:
- name: Computational musicology
markdown_url: https://0110.be/tags/Computational%20musicology.md
- name: HoGent
markdown_url: https://0110.be/tags/HoGent.md
- name: Music Information Retrieval
markdown_url: https://0110.be/tags/Music%20Information%20Retrieval.md
- name: Presentation
markdown_url: https://0110.be/tags/Presentation.md
---
# Software for Music Analysis
Friday the second of December I presented a talk about software for music analysis. The aim was to make clear which type of research topics can benefit from measurements by software for music analysis. Different types of digital music representations and examples of software packages were explained.
Following presentation was used during the talk. ("ppt":\[2011.12.02.software_for_music_analysis.ppt\], "odp":\[2011.12.02.software_for_music_analysis.odp\]):
- [Sonic Visualizer](http://www.sonicvisualiser.org): As its name suggests Sonic Visualizer contains a lot different visualisations for audio. It can be used for analysis (pitch,beat,chroma,...) with [VAMP-plugins](http://vamp-plugins.org). To quote *"The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it"*. It is the swiss army knife of audio analysis.
- [BeatRoot](http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond/beatroot/) is designed specifically for one goal: beat tracking. It can be used for e.g. comparing tempi of different performances of the same piece or to track tempo deviation within one piece.
- [Tartini](http://tartini.net) is capable to do real-time pitch analysis of sound. You can e.g. play into a microphone with a violin and see the harmonics you produce and adapt you playing style based on visual feedback. It also contains a pitch deviation measuring apparatus to analyse vibrato.
- [Tarsos](http://tarsos.0110.be) is software for tone scale analysis. It is useful to extract tone scales from audio. Different tuning systems can be seen, extracted and compared. It also contains the ability to play along with the original song with a tuned midi keyboard .
To show the different digital representations of music one example (Liebestraum 3 by Liszt) was used in different formats:
- "Score (PDF)":\[00.partituur.liebestraum_3.pdf\]
- "MusicXML":\[01.musicXML-liebestraum_no_3.xml\]
- "MIDI as notation":\[01.deadpan_midi.wav\]
- "MIDI as performance":\[02.performed_midi.wav\]
- "Acoustic performance":\[03.human.performance.wav\]
- [02.performed\_midi.wav](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/02.performed_midi.wav)
- [01.deadpan\_midi.wav](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/01.deadpan_midi.wav)
- [2011.12.02.software\_for\_music\_analysis.ppt](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/2011.12.02.software_for_music_analysis.ppt)
- [2011.12.02.software\_for\_music\_analysis.odp](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/2011.12.02.software_for_music_analysis.odp)
- [03.human.performance.wav](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/03.human.performance.wav)
- [digital\_registration\_filetypes.png](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/digital_registration_filetypes.png)
- [00.partituur.liebestraum\_3.pdf](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/00.partituur.liebestraum_3.pdf)
- [01.MusicXML-extract.txt](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/01.MusicXML-extract.txt)
- [digital\_registration\_software.png](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/digital_registration_software.png)
- [01.musicXML-liebestraum\_no\_3.xml](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/01.musicXML-liebestraum_no_3.xml)
- [2011.12.02.software\_for\_music\_analysis.pdf](https://0110.be/files/attachments/383/2011.12.02.software_for_music_analysis.pdf)