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Recognition of variations using automatic Schenkerian reduction. / Marsden, Alan.
2010. Poster session presented at International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht.

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Marsden, A 2010, 'Recognition of variations using automatic Schenkerian reduction.', International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht, 1/08/10.

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Marsden, A. (2010). Recognition of variations using automatic Schenkerian reduction.. Poster session presented at International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht.

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Marsden A. Recognition of variations using automatic Schenkerian reduction.. 2010. Poster session presented at International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht.

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Marsden, Alan. / Recognition of variations using automatic Schenkerian reduction. Poster session presented at International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht.6 p.

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