Desain, P., & Vos, S. (1990). Autocorrelation and the study of musical expression. In Proceedings of the 1990 International Computer Music Conference. 357-360. San Francisco: Computer Music Association.

Abstract

In performances musical structure is conveyed as variations of timing and other parameters. A method was designed to analyse these variations using autocorrelation. Peaks in the autocorrelation function are interpreted as periods of repeated components in the musical structure. Care has to be taken in using the standard autocorrelation function in this domain. Partial autocorrelation was used to remove the multiples of a fundamental period.

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