Topic Modelling Song Lyrics from the Million Song Dataset

We are currently looking into a genre classification method, along with which musical features most strongly contribute to what defines a song’s genre. Part of this initiative included looking at lyrics for each song. This is to…

A Closer Look at the Million Song Dataset

The intersection between music and computation, or commonly referred to as computational music analysis, is a growing field. Over the last few weeks, I was fortunate enough to be a part of a team that immersed themselves in the field. In specific, the team…

Genre Learning: A Machine Learning Approach

Robert Crimi, Calvin Hicks, Charles Luckhardt, and Camille Noufi

Does Harmony Influence Musical Style/Genre?

Camille Noufi and Brandon Jacquez

Decision Tree Induction on the Million Song Dataset

Data mining has useful classification methods for the data analysis and prediction. One of them is decision tree induction, which is the learning of decision trees from the class-labeled dataset. It can provide an easy way to understand the…

Harmonic Progression and Genre as Understood Through Cluster Analysis

Joshua McCann and Calvin Hicks

Correlating Musical Genre to Geographic Location

by Robert Crimi and Tae Kim

In an effort to develop algorithms to help predict musical genre, it is very important to know which genres are concentrated around specific geographical locations. From these relationships…

Looking at Song Genres, Release Year, and Time Signature