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I'm curious about this paper: The use of Melodic Scales in Bollywood Music: An Empirical Study

Cool that Microsoft does research into Bollywood music?

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1983...

I took an interdisciplinary course in University and one of the CS professors did a whole lecture series on research in music and analysis. A lot of beat analysis, understanding rhythms and predicting popularity of songs based on the distribution of the timing between their beats. It was very cool and extremely creative.

Here's his homepage if you want to learn more http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/

Edit: Looks like he recently published a book on it too http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466512023

His research is definitely fascinating. Funny to see my CS professor pop up in here though. :)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/song...

Could it be related to SongSmith?

"Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you."

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