First International Conference on Web Delivering of Music Wedelmusic 2001 Proceedings Flore... Book

Collects the 24 papers presented during the November 2001 conference on the distribution of music over the web. The six sessions address music protection, cultural heritage, music modeling, music analysis and classification, audio fruition and manipulation, and music recognition. Some of the topics are blind detection of multiple audio watermarks, an XML music notation format, classification of melodies by composer with hidden Markov models, expressive morphing for interactive performance of musical scores, real time musical events streaming over the internet, and automatic formatting of music sheets. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)