Covers the three main ways to represent music— sheet music , symbolic (MIDI), and audio —while defining acoustic properties like pitch, dynamics, and timbre.

The book by Meinard Müller is a comprehensive guide to Music Information Retrieval (MIR) . It bridges the gap between signal processing theory and real-world music applications using a modular, task-oriented approach. Core Structure and Foundations

Introduces the mathematical backbone of audio analysis, detailing how to convert time-domain signals into the frequency domain using the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) . Key Music Processing Tasks

Each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific challenge, presenting both the musical context and the rigorous algorithms needed to solve it:

The textbook is organized into eight chapters, beginning with foundational concepts that are applied to increasingly complex tasks: