3 papers
cs.SD2025
Radif Corpus: A Symbolic Dataset for Non-Metric Iranian Classical Music
Maziar Kanani, Sean O Leary, James McDermott
Non-metric music forms the core of the repertoire in Iranian classical music. Dastgahi music serves as the underlying theoretical system for both Iranian art music and certain folk…
cs.AI2025
Parsing Musical Structure to Enable Meaningful Variations
Maziar Kanani, Sean O Leary, James McDermott
This paper presents a novel rule-based approach for generating music by varying existing tunes. We parse each tune to find the Pathway Assembly (PA) [ 1], that is a structure repre…
cs.NE2025
Grammatical Structure and Grammatical Variations in Non-Metric Iranian Classical Music
Maziar Kanani, Sean O Leary, James McDermott
In this study we introduce a symbolic dataset composed of non-metric Iranian classical music, and algorithms for structural parsing of this music, and generation of variations. The…