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Musical analyst | Teacher | Composer, performer | Casual listener | Executive, producer | Critic and journalist | Librarian, archivist
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Musical factors seek | Multiple read graph | Patterns comparison | Improved playlists
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We are passionate about how we can create a relevant music search technology to help people to understand music. Designed by an expert music software engineer active within the global industry, YMusic is not a recommendation system. It is the first actual complete music search engine. Learn more about it through its users' guide.
We can add new titles for you in our database. You can contact us if you want to get a tailored version of YMusic to solve specific issues.
To optimize your search time, you can gather your findings in playlists useful in various contexts - research, teaching, composition or production (and export them into YouTube and Spotify).
Your scope: the YMusic database, created to help you in your research activities. It includes: 5000+ composers, 3000+ performers, 39 000+ titles (from the 10th century to the 2010s), 850+ sub-genres and 25 genres.
With YMusic, create playlists based on musical criteria only
Enhance YMusic's features in light of production data and inversely.
You will also find an empty template for your students.
You want to be statistically informed about the content of music, get more control over the search process and unlock search value. The music understanding technology applied by YMusic to its database can help you. And a better knowledge of technology.
For these reasons, currently, when we are not busy with YMusic, we create content for music seekers interested in innovation in the area of sheet music technology (they help to understand music too) and in music analysis based on technology.
Are you an enquiring mind fascinated by sheet music? Discover
our historical writings related to sheet music publishing:
The music you love is the sum of the sounds you appreciate and the emotion you feel. YMusic is here for you, who want more than a classification by title, composer and genre. You can use it as a personal knowledge assistant and you will discover music without borders, exploring your musical self.
As general search engines show it, in a world of excess, relevant selection is a power. Yet music listening has to be reinvented for the search engine age. YMusic can improve listeners' understanding, giving them the real data which explain why they love a title in particular, helping them to know more about its musical components.
The basics of music: bass
Elementary notions of orchestration: what is orchestration?
Elementary notions of orchestration: how is the orchestra telling a story?
From theory and practise to sales and distribution: how is music presented in a digital form?
How did classical and pop music blend during the 20th century?
Brain studies: music as a source of pleasure
Musical rhythms in nature: humans and animals
the basics of music: melody and rhythm
the basics of music: harmony
ELEMENTARY MUSIC THEORY: FROM ORCHESTRATION TO NEUROSCIENCE
WHY MUSIC? QUALITY ESSAYS ON MUSIC LISTENING FOR KNOWLEDGE SEEKERS AND AVID READERS
A music search engine so that individual listeners may find music they can potentially like in a reasonable amount of time
Information seeking and music listening queries: the YMusic search engine
A music search engine to rediscover the unique taste of music
A new music search engine linked with a representative database to develop active music listening
A music search engine to meet the expectations of casual music listeners as well as musicians
A music search engine to create a direct sonic link between music and listeners
How is a music search engine different from a music recommender system?
A music search engine to match music and music listeners in more efficient and entertaining
ways
Information and its categorisation in general and specialized search engines: the case of music
A music search engine to match music listeners’ queries
Search, relevance and music
Cultural discovery in the field of music: a search engine to explore world music following
musical criteria?
Are music services and curation websites sufficient to discover new music?
A music search engine to rethink the concept of music audiences and enhance listeners’
experience
Search technologies, music and similarity
A music search engine with relevant features to explore the extensive nature of music
Technology entrepreneurship : a search engine in the field of music
A music search engine as source of musical information and knowledge for all music listeners
A music search engine to meet music listeners’ objectives at the musical level
A meaning-driven music search engine to meet music listeners’ expectations
A music search engine to develop a better understanding of music
The special nature of music amongst sources of knowledge and why a music search engine has become a necessity
A music search engine to empower music listeners
A music search engine to reward music listeners engaged in a quest for music
A music search engine to think out of the box and learn in an autonomous way
A music search engine to unlock online search value
A music search engine to increase the effects of serendipity in matter of music search?
A music search engine to interact with the topic of music with more insight
A music search engine to train and form opinions about personal musical preferences
A music search engine so that music listeners can avoid just being passive consumers
A music search engine to challenge and broaden the tastes of individual music listeners
Artificial intelligence, human intelligence augmentation, search engines and music
Can a music search engine help music listeners to understand more easily the content of the music
they are interested in?
A music search engine to take more control over the search process?
Why a music search engine based on a new music theory?
A music search engine helping the music listeners to explore their various musical identities?
Why music is special amongst the arts, how a music search engine helps to know its specificities
What do general search engines and social recommendation bring to musical knowledge building?
How can the essence of music be discovered through the internet?
A search engine to reduce the uncertainty of music queries?
What can a music search engine bring to the modern music listener?
How can musicians and listeners experience social mobility beyond the opposition between high and low musical culture?
Why do musicians and listeners want to acquire new knowledge and what means do they use to achieve that target?
Why is it necessary to value the acquisition of new musical knowledge in the context of internet society?
Is a music search engine useful to help music listeners to increase their personal musical knowledge?
How is a music search engine helpful to interact with music in human terms in the digital age?
What is knowledge and how is it constituted?
What is musical knowledge ?
From musical data to knowledge and wisdom
Music, knowledge and search engines
Music, personal knowledge and music search engine
MUSIC, KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION, AND SEARCH ENGINE TECHNOLOGY
Since antiquity, human beings have been conscious of themselves and wanted to fix knowledge to ensure that future generations can also benefit from it. For its part, musical knowledge was first kept on stones: precursors to sheet music include antique cuneiform tablets and medieval manuscripts. Music printing appeared during the 15th century. Today, sheet music can be read and even played on a computer screen. As the ways to keep music changed, the ways to retrieve it changed through time. Besides libraries, musical knowledge can now be acquired on the internet. What is musical knowledge? How can music listeners increase their musical knowledge? What can a music search engine bring to the modern music listener? Know more about these topics by reading the texts below.
TIME IN MUSIC
Time in music presents at least two aspects: music is mathematical and is unfolding in external time. Yet the listener has a personal internal time, felt by the singular individual being. The following essays explain these two aspects of musical time and how they relate to each other.
What are the various ways used by composers to modify the musical time?
Popular music composers and the creation of musical time
Music, time and human consciousness
Is music the expression of eternity ?
Musical time and the inner judgments of music listeners and composers
Openings as essential elements of the musical time
Can music technology have a positive impact in the field of human health?
What value does the study of embodied music bring to musical creation?
Music technology to broaden the extent of human computer interaction
How does music meet branding in advertising?
What do neuromarketeers do to help advertisers to search for music to support
their campaigns in efficient ways?
What elements do music composers use to successfully write popular hits?
What does classical music bring to advertising?
Value creation and musical imitation: when can they go together?
The description of music in the age of computing
Delivering music online: the role of platforms' engineers
Online music, from analog to digital
Pop and country songs: how do music producers create value?
Musical creation and entertainment law between aesthetics and technology
How does the music industry shape the world’s sounds?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of online music distribution models?
What value does musical analysis bring to composers, publishers and listeners?
Musical analysis as a science describing the singularity of musical works?
Why is musical analysis still important in the music technology era?
WHAT IS MUSICAL ANALYSIS?
Musical analysis is a complex academic discipline which, today, is inherently related to the fields of music technology and music economics. Why does musical analysis stay important in the music technology era? How does music meet branding in advertising? Which value does the study of embodied music bring to musical creation? Find answers to these questions below.
What relationships do music listeners have with music performers?
Does music influence human beings?
What do sound engineers do for music listeners?
How do sound engineers listen to music?
An ear for hearing, an ear for listening: when are we really listening to music?
What is music offering?
Where is the beauty in music beyond cultural boundaries?
Does quality of sound affect the music listening experience?
Music and the mind of the listener
Perception and transformation of voices
What is soundscape creation?
Music and embracing uniqueness
What are the various forms of musical communication?
Does listening to music alone offers benefits?
Music listening as a dialog between composers and listeners
Intuitive music listening to enhance the very existence?
Music listening in the age of data and the 21st century music listener
New music listening theories: sounds, music, listeners and computers
Sounds, vision and gestures: music listeners and their imagination
Deep listening and music, at the crossroads of nature and culture
What do listeners really hear when they are exposed to music?
What are musicians’ ways of listening?
INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC LISTENING
Music listening is at the crossroads of nature and culture. For the curious mind wanting to find out more about it, here are some contributions which address themes as varied as the influence of music on human behavior, the beauty in music or the nature of sound. What are musicians’ ways of listening? What is soundscape creation? You will find answers to such questions
in the following texts:
Only music researchers can take the time to study music in an exhaustive way. However, the casual music listener who has a curious mind can know more about the nature of music at the elementary level, from various perspectives. You will find below an ensemble of essays that tend to present simple elements related to music listening and musical analysis in a clear way. And as a bonus, you can even glean some information related to the specific question of time in music.
When we make a music query online, there is often a slight gap between what we expect and what we get, at the musical level. It is due to the limitations of natural language: when we insert a title or a name in a streaming service or a general search engine, this word is deprived of accurate musical meaning. Therefore, search results rely on cultural data, rather than on musical information.
Tools like chords and melody finders bring us raw musical data, working as musical dictionaries. However, what we need is a music search engine offering opportunities for shaping the way we listen and understand music, informing our music research, helping us to make sense of a music database and to develop new musical knowledge.
This search engine exists. It is YMusic. This music intelligence technology includes options to search and establish similarities between different pieces of music. It presents an identity card for each of them. Making room for human intelligence, YMusic can contribute to develop the aesthetic vision of music researchers and to communicate the results of a research to various audiences.
They are not related to YMusic's features. We wrote them to show how
music and analysis strongly relate to technology across cultural fields.
These essays are classified in the following categories:
The ways to keep music changed over the years, the means of retrieving
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