CONCLUSIONS

• I hope that you have found this tutorial informative
• Please remember that there are many other uses for jSymbolic features that we have not had time to deal with directly today, such as (to give just a few examples):
  • Looking at how music in various groups is similar and different
    • e.g. style, genre, period, culture, geographical location, etc.
  • Clustering music using machine learning to see how it is grouped
    • This is called "unsupervised learning", as opposed to the "supervised learning" we looked at today
  • Annotating databases so that they can be searched by content
    • e.g. find all music in a corpus that has either vertical and melodic tritones
  • Visualizing music using features
    • e.g. generating maps or 3-D representations of feature data
  • Studying attribution certainty in greater detail
    • e.g. is this piece believed to be by Josquin really by Josquin, based on its musical content, and why?
• There is also nothing about jSymbolic that limits it to Renaissance music
  • In fact, the very first research done with jSymbolic involved popular music!
• jSymbolic can be useful for both:
  • Verification / repudiation of existing theories and models
  • Purely exploratory research, for finding new, potentially unintuitive and potentially very meaningful insights on music

AVAILABLE VERSIONS OF JSYMBOLIC

• This tutorial was done using the most recent release version of jSymbolic available on the jSymbolic distribution site
• jSymbolic also has a GitHub site if you want to keep up to date with prototype versions of jSymbolic as the software continues to be developed
  • It might be safer to stick with official release version, however, as it is better tested

MORE INFORMATION ON JSYMBOLIC

• The jSymbolic manual is always a good reference
• You can also read Chapter 4 of my 2010 doctoral dissertation
  • It was written in connection with the much older version 1 of jSymbolic
  • It still has lots of detailed background information that is certainly relevant, however
• Please e-mail Cory McKaywith any questions you might have

THANKS!

• To the FRQSC and SSHRC for their generous funding, which has been essential in making the development of jSymbolic and jMIR possible
• To Dr. Julie E. Cumming, Dr. Ichiro Fujinaga and my many other collaborators on the SIMSSA and MIRAI projects
• To Tristano Tenaglia, who played an important role in the trainstion between versions 1.0 and 2.0 of jSymbolic

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