university of southern california viterbi school of engineering

music computation and cognition laboratory

     

theses

2011

Wolf, KatieAnna E. (2011). Evaluation of Performance-to-Score MIDI Alignment for Piano Duets. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota, May, 2011.

2010

Bragg, Jonathan (2010). Detection of Neo-Riemannian Cycles: A Finite State Approach. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Computer Science and Music, Harvard University, March, 2010.

2008

Chuan, Ching-Hua (2008). Hybrid Methods for Music Analysis and Synthesis: Audio Key Finding and Automatic Style-Specific Accompaniment. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, August, 2008. [ PDF ]

Unal, Erdem (2008). Music Retrieval Systems: Robust Performance Under the Effect of Uncertainty. PhD Thesis, Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Southern California, August, 2008. [ PDF ]

2007

Liu, Jie (2007). User-Centered Design and Computing in ESP: a Driving Interface for Musical Expression Synthesis. PhD Thesis, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, December, 2007. [ PDF ]

Mardirossian, Arpi (2007). Investigations in Music Similarity: Analysis, Organization, and Visualization Using Tonal Features. PhD Thesis, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, August, 2007. [ PDF ]

2006

Cheng, Eric (2006). Computational Analysis of Expression in Violin Performance. Masters Thesis, Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Southern California, December, 2006. [ PDF ]

Mosst, Merrick (2006). Quantitative Modeling of Emotion Perception in Music. Masters Thesis, Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Southern California, August, 2006. [ PDF ]

2004

Yardi, Shivani (2004). Raga Structure: Geometric and Generative Models. Masters Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Southern California, May, 2004.

2000

Chew, Elaine (2000). Towards a Mathematical Model of Tonality. Ph.D. dissertation. Operations Research Center, MIT. Cambridge, MA. [ non-printable PDF ]

updated July 26, 2008.