Modeling the relationship between scientific and bibliographic classification for music

Abstract

Scientific classification is an important topic in contemporary knowledge organization discourse, yet the nature of the relationships between scientific and bibliographic classifications has not been fully studied. This article considers the connections between scientific and bibliographic classifications for music, taking general discourse about scientific classification and domain analysis as its starting point. Three relationship characteristics are posited: similarity, causation, and time. In discussions about similarity, "accords" and "discords" are analyzed. Further, the idea of a scale of accord is introduced, and issues with assuming a univocal scientific or bibliographic classification of music are discussed. Causation and the idea of influence between scientific and bibliographic classifications for music are unpicked. The connections between accordance and influence are explored, and the concept of differing purposes for different classification approaches is analyzed. A temporal dimension is considered, and the dynamic nature of connections between music scientific and bibliographic classifications is established. The idea of bifurcation is introduced-a change of accordance over time-which is prominent for musical instrument classification. The concluding model visualizes similarity, causation and temporal aspects as three dimensions, showing how scientific and bibliographic classifications for music are connected through a set of interconnected and complex relationships.

Orthogonality, dependency, and music: An exploration of the relationships between music facets

“…Furthermore, it was shown how the music domain defines one type of information (genre) in terms of other types of information. Therefore, the lack of orthogonality between music facets could be construed as passing between music knowledge and music bibliographic classification schemes, with this transference of orthogonality illuminating a type of influence (Lee et al, 2019, pp. 238–239) between music scientific classifications and bibliographic classification schemes.…”

“…Choral symphonies have an interesting tangle of relationships between the medium set by their form/genre (choral symphony) and the medium set by their parent genre (symphony); in a parallel classificatory landscape, the bibliographic classification schemes frequently struggle with the classification of choral symphonies. Ultimately, the difficulties of classifying choral symphonies in bibliographic classification schemes could be viewed as an example of causation (Lee, Robinson, & Bawden, 2019, pp. 235–236), where the orthogonality issues of the musical works are transformed into bibliographic classification scheme issues.…”

Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments

“…Note, organology is not mentioned in the introduction to Hornbostel-Sachs, as this term was not in common use in the early 20th century (see DeVale (1990) and for the history and boundaries of organology as a domain). Another purpose given for the classification scheme (Hornbostel and Sachs 1961) is that it encourages researchers to find new links between instruments; so, Hornbostel-Sachs is fulfilling one criterion of being a scientific classification by enabling new knowledge to be created through classification (using the term "scientific classification" as way of describing a knowledge organization system created from within a domain (Mai 2011, Hjørland 2008, Lee, Robinson and Bawden, 2018).…”

Music Recognition and Classification Algorithm considering Audio Emotion

“…e overall characteristics include musical form structure, musical style, emotional connotation, etc. [16]. Accordingly, the recognition of musical features can be divided into three levels: the first is to extract the basic characteristics of music, the second is to get the complex characteristics based on the analysis of basic characteristics, and the last is to identify the overall characteristics of music according to the basic and complex characteristics.…”