Alan Marsden: Publications

I have been editor of Journal of New Music Research since 2004.

Major publications

• Schenkerian analysis by computer: a proof of concept. Journal of New Music Research, v.39 (2010), in press. pdf
• "What was the Question?": Music Analysis and the Computer. In Tim Crawford & Lorna Gibson (eds.) Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals and Realities. Ashgate (2009), 137-147. pdf
• Timing in Music and Modal Temporal Logic. Journal of Mathematics and Music, v.1 (2007), 173-189. pdf
• [with Adrian Mackenzie, Adam Lindsay, Harriet Nock, John Coleman & Greg Kochanski] Tools for Searching, Annotation and Analysis of Speech, Music, Film and Video—A Survey. Literary and Linguistic Computing, v.22 (2007). pdf
• Generative Structural Representation of Tonal Music. Journal of New Music Research, v.34 (2005), 409-428. pdf
• Representing Melodic Patterns as Networks of Elaborations. Computers and the Humanities, v.35 (2001), 37-54.
• Representing Musical Time: A Temporal-Logic Approach. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger (2000). [Links to Abstract, Errata, Associated Software]
• Music, Intelligence and Artificiality. In E.R. Miranda (ed.) Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers (2000), 15-28.
• Computers and the concept of tonality. In J.T. Coppock (ed.) Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines, Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy) (1999), 33-52.
• Symbolic representation for music. In C. Mullings, S. Kenna, M. Deegan & S. Ross (eds.) New Technologies for the Humanities, East Grinstead: Bowker Saur (1996),115-137.
• Musical pragmatics and computer modelling. In E. Tarasti (ed.) Musical Signification: essays in the semiotic theory and analysis of music. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter (1995), 335-348.
• Musical informatics: an emerging discipline? Revue. Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences humaines, v.29 (1993), 77-90.
• [Edited with Anthony Pople] Computer Representations and Models in Music. London: Academic Press (1992).
• Modelling the perception of musical voices: a case study in rule-based systems. In A. Marsden & A. Pople (eds.) Computer Representations and Models in Music. London: Academic Press (1992), 239-263.
• Listening as discovery learning. Contemporary Music Review,v.4 (1989), 327-340. (Translated into French as L'écoute: un apprentissage par la découverte. In S. McAdams and I. Deliège (eds.) La Musique et Les Sciences Cognitive. Brussels: P. Mardaga.)
• [with Anthony Pople] Towards a connected distributed model of musical listening. Interface, v.18 (1989), 61-72.
• [with Anthony Pople] Modelling musical cognition as a community of experts. Contemporary Music Review, v.3 no.1 (1989), 29-42.
• A study of cognitive demands in listening to Mozart's quintet for piano and wind instruments, K.452. Psychology of Music, v.15 (1987), 30-57.

Other publications

Shorter items and items superseded by later publications

• Software for Schenkerian Analysis. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2011, Huddersfield (2011), 673-676. pdf
• The Plurality of Melodic Similarity. Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Padova (2011) 5-10. pdf
• Recognition of variations using automatic Schenkerian reduction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) 2010, Utrecht (2010), 501-506. pdf
• Ambiguity and Multiplicity in Music Representation. In Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Frans Wiering & Geraint Wiggins (eds.) Knowledge representation for intelligent music processing, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, Germany, 2009, http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/1969. pdf
• Automatic Derivation of Musical Structure: A Tool for Research on Schenkerian Analysis. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) 2007, Vienna (2007), 55-58. pdf (revised & extended)
• Towards Schenkerian Analysis by Computer: A Reductional Matrix. Proceedings of the ICMC 2005, Barcelona (2005), 247-250. pdf
• Extending a Network-of-Elaborations Representation to Polyphonic Music: Schenker and Species Counterpoint. Proceedings of First Sound and Music Computing Conference, IRCAM, Paris (2004), 57-63. pdf
• Novagen: A Combination of Eyesweb and an Elaboration-Network Representation for the Generation of Melodies under Gestural Control. Proceedings of the COST287-ConGAS Symposium on Gesture Interfaces for Multimedia Systems (GIMS), Leeds University (2004), 52-57. pdf
• Representing Melodies as Elaboration Trees. Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Musical Creativity, Edinburgh College of Art & Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Sussex: The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (1999), 70-75.
• Introduzione alla musicologia computazionale (Translated by A. Di Scipio). In A. Di Scipio (ed.) Teoria e prassi della musica nell'era dell'informatico, Bari: Giuseppe Laterza Editore (1995), pp. 155-166.
• Musical abstractions and composers' practice. Proceedings of IX Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana & Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale, Università di Genova (1991), 40-54.
• Computers in music teaching. Proceedings of the symposium Computers in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Queen's University, 1990. Bath: CTISS (1990), 17.1-17.5.