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Music analysis by computer: ontology and epistemology

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Music analysis by computer: ontology and epistemology. / Marsden, Alan.
Computational music analysis. ed. / David Meredith. Springer, 2016. p. 3-28.

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Marsden, A 2016, Music analysis by computer: ontology and epistemology. in D Meredith (ed.), Computational music analysis. Springer, pp. 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25931-4_1

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Marsden, A. (2016). Music analysis by computer: ontology and epistemology. In D. Meredith (Ed.), Computational music analysis (pp. 3-28). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25931-4_1

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Marsden A. Music analysis by computer: ontology and epistemology. In Meredith D, editor, Computational music analysis. Springer. 2016. p. 3-28 Epub 2015 Oct 28. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25931-4_1

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Marsden, Alan. / Music analysis by computer : ontology and epistemology. Computational music analysis. editor / David Meredith. Springer, 2016. pp. 3-28

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