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Articles on MIR Education

Interactive Learning of Signal Processing Through Music: Making Fourier Analysis Concrete for Students.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 38(3): 73–84, 2021
Meinard Müller, Brian McFee, and Katherine Kinnaird

Music Information Retrieval: Recent Developments and Applications
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 8(2-3): 127-261, 2014
Markus Schedl, Emilia Gómez and Julián Urbano

MIR-Related Textbooks

Digital Signals Theory
CRC Press, 2023 (Online version)
Brian McFee
Music Data Analysis: Foundations and Applications
Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer Science & Data Analysis, 2016
Claus Weihs, Dietmar Jannach, Igor Vatolkin, Guenter Rudolph
Information Retrieval for Music and Motion
Springer, 2007
Meinard Müller
Rhythm and Transforms
Springer, 2007
William Arthur Sethares
Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription
Springer, New York, 2006
Anssi P. Klapuri and Manuel Davy (editors)
Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
Springer, London, 1998
William A. Sethares

MIR-Related Educational Software and Online Tutorials

FMP Notebooks
Jupyter/Python notebooks for teaching and learning Fundamentals of Music Processing (FMP).
Preparation Course Python
Jupyter/Python notebooks introducing Python programming with a focus on audio processing (as required, e.g., for the FMP Notebooks).
Audio Content Analysis
Matlab, Python, and C++ code for feature extraction, pitch tracking, key detection, onset detection, etc., and links to data sets.
Teaching MIR
A centralized collection of teaching resources related to Music Information Retrieval. It is addressed to teachers and students interested on these technologies from an educational point of view. Current resources include the following: a list of courses related to MIR in different levels, institutions and countries; a collaborative (small) list of teaching materials, such as exercises, musical examples, code; and a list of datasets and reference annotations.