@PHDTHESIS{Moorer1975thesis,
   author = {James A. Moorer},
   title = {On the Segmentation and Analysis of Continuous Musical Sound by Digital Computer},
   school = {Stanford University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {July},
   year = {1975},
   url = {http://www.jamminpower.com/main/resume.jsp},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Schloss1985thesis,
   author = {W. Andrew Schloss},
   title = {On the Automatic Transcription of Percussive Music: {F}rom Acoustic Signal to High Level Analysis},
   school = {Stanford University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {May},
   year = {1985},
   url = {http://ccrma.stanford.edu/STANM/stanms/stanm27/stanm27.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Watson1985thesis,
   author = {Charles R. Watson},
   title = {The Computer Analysis of Polyphonic Music},
   school = {University of Sydney},
   address = {Australia},
   month = {},
   year = {1985},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Page1988thesis,
   author = {Stephen Dowland Page},
   title = {Computer Tools for Music Information Retrieval},
   school = {Oxford, New College},
   address = {UK},
   month = {},
   year = {1988},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Serra1989thesis,
   author = {Xavier Serra},
   title = {A System for Sound Analysis/Transformation/Synthesis based on a Deterministic plus Stochastic Decomposition},
   school = {Stanford University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {},
   year = {1989},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Maher1989thesis,
   author = {Robert C. Maher},
   title = {An Approach for the Separation of Voices in Composite Musical Signals},
   school = {University of Illinois},
   address = {IL, USA},
   month = {},
   year = {1989},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Mellinger1991thesis,
   author = {David K. Mellinger},
   title = {Event Formation and Separation in Musical Sound},
   school = {Stanford University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {},
   year = {1991},
   url = {http://ccrma.stanford.edu/STANM/stanms/stanm77/index.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Windsor1995thesis,
   author = {William Luke Windsor},
   title = {A Perceptual Approach to the Description and Analysis of Acousmatic Music},
   school = {City University},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {September},
   year = {1995},
   url = {http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~muswlw/pubs/lwthesis.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Friberg1995thesis,
   author = {Anders Friberg},
   title = {A Quantitative Rule System for Musical Performance},
   school = {KTH - Royal Institute of Technology},
   address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
   month = {},
   year = {1995},
   url = {http://www.speech.kth.se/music/publications/thesisaf/sammfa2nd.htm},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Ellis1996thesis,
   author = {Dan P. W. Ellis},
   title = {Prediction-driven Computational Auditory Scene Analysis},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {June},
   year = {1996},
   url = {http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/pubs/pdcasa.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Masri1996thesis,
   author = {Paul Masri},
   title = {Computer Modeling of Sound for Transformation and Synthesis of Musical Signals},
   school = {University of Bristol},
   address = {UK},
   month = {},
   year = {1996},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Goto1998thesis,
   author = {Masataka Goto},
   title = {A Study of Real-time Beat Tracking for Musical Audio Signals (in {J}apanese)},
   school = {Waseda University},
   address = {Japan},
   month = {March},
   year = {1998},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Cambouropoulos1998thesis,
   author = {Emilios Cambouropoulos},
   title = {Towards a General Computational Theory of Musical Structure},
   school = {University of Edinburgh},
   address = {UK},
   month = {May},
   year = {1998},
   url = {http://users.auth.gr/~emilios/englishpage/phd.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Rolland1998thesis,
   author = {Pierre-Yves Rolland},
   title = {Découverte Automatique de Régularités Dans les Séquences et Application à l'Analyse Musicale},
   school = {University of Paris 6},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {July},
   year = {1998},
   url = {http://www.lip6.fr/fr/production/publications-rapport-fiche.php?RECORD_KEY%28rapports%29=id&id(rapports)=85},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Rossi1998thesis,
   author = {Lucile Rossi},
   title = {Identification de sons polyphoniques de piano (Identification of polyphonic piano sounds)},
   school = {Universit\'{e} de Corse},
   address = {Corte, France},
   month = {},
   year = {1998},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Martin1999thesis,
   author = {Keith Dana Martin},
   title = {Sound-source Recognition: A theory and Computational Model},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {June},
   year = {1999},
   url = {http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~kdm/research/papers/kdm-phdthesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Downie1999thesis,
   author = {J. Stephen Downie},
   title = {Evaluating a Simple Approach to Music Information Retrieval: Conceiving Melodic N-Grams as Text},
   school = {University of Western Ontario},
   address = {Canada},
   month = {July},
   year = {1999},
   url = {http://people.lis.uiuc.edu/~jdownie/mir_papers/thesis_missing_some_music_figs.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Piat1999thesis,
   author = {Frederic Georges Paul Piat},
   title = {ARTIST: Adaptive Resonance Theory to Internalize the Structure of Tonality (A Neural Net Listening to Music)},
   school = {University of Texas at Dallas},
   address = {TX, USA},
   month = {December},
   year = {1999},
   url = {http://epublish.utdallas.edu/dissertations/AAI9961178/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Sterian1999thesis,
   author = {Andrew Sterian},
   title = {Model-Based Segmentation of Time-Frequency Images for Musical Transcription},
   school = {University of Michigan},
   address = {MI, USA},
   month = {},
   year = {1999},
   url = {http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/%7Esteriana/Publications/AndrewSterian.Dissertation.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Jensen1999thesis,
   author = {Kristoffer Jensen},
   title = {Timbre Models of Musical Sounds},
   school = {University of Copenhagen},
   address = {Denmark},
   month = {},
   year = {1999},
   url = {http://www.aaue.dk/~krist/TMoMS.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Chew2000thesis,
   author = {Elaine Chew},
   title = {Towards a Mathematical Model for Tonality},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {February},
   year = {2000},
   url = {https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/9139/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Eck2000thesis,
   author = {Douglas S. Eck},
   title = {Meter Through Synchrony: {P}rocessing Rhythmical Patterns with Relaxation Oscillators},
   school = {Indiana University},
   address = {IN, USA},
   month = {April},
   year = {2000},
   url = {http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~eckdoug/papers/thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Scheirer2000thesis,
   author = {Eric Scheirer},
   title = {Music-Listening Systems},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {April},
   year = {2000},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Rossignol2000thesis,
   author = {St{\'e}phane Rossignol},
   title = {Segmentation et indexation des signaux sonores musicaux},
   school = {Universit{\'e} Pierre et Marie Curie},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {July},
   year = {2000},
   url = {\url{http://stephanerossignol.ifrance.com}},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Blackburn2000thesis,
   author = {Steven G. Blackburn},
   title = {Content Based Retrieval and Navigation of Music Using Melodic Pitch Contours},
   school = {University of Southampton},
   address = {Southampton, UK},
   month = {September},
   year = {2000},
   url = {http://www.beeka.org/research/papers/index.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Walmsley2000thesis,
   author = {Paul Joseph Walmsley},
   title = {Signal Separation of Musical Instruments},
   school = {University of Cambridge},
   address = {UK},
   month = {September},
   year = {2000},
   url = {http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/publications/archive/pjw42.phdthesis.ps.gz},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Smith2000thesis,
   author = {Leigh M. Smith},
   title = {A Multiresolution Time-Frequency Analysis and Interpretation of Musical Rhythm},
   school = {University of Western Australia},
   address = {Australia},
   month = {October},
   year = {2000},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Lemstrom2000thesis,
   author = {Kjell Lemstr\"{o}m},
   title = {String Matching Techniques for Music Retrieval},
   school = {University of Helsinki},
   address = {Finland},
   month = {November},
   year = {2000},
   url = {http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/klemstro/THESIS/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Raskinis2000thesis,
   author = {Gailius Raskinis},
   title = {Automatic Transcription of Lithuanian Folk Songs},
   school = {Vytautas Magnus University},
   address = {Kaunas, Lithuania},
   month = {},
   year = {2000},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Levy2001thesis,
   author = {Matthew Levy},
   title = {Emotion and the Experience of Listening to Music: A Framework for Empirical Research},
   school = {University of Cambridge},
   address = {UK},
   month = {April},
   year = {2001},
   url = {http://www.scribblin.gs/miscellanea/mlavy-thesis-noapp.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Smaragdis2001thesis,
   author = {Paris Smaragdis},
   title = {Redundancy Reduction for Computational Audition, a Unifying Approach},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {June},
   year = {2001},
   url = {http://web.media.mit.edu/~paris/phd/parisphd.ps.gz},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Marolt2002thesis,
   author = {Matija Marolt},
   title = {Automatic Transcription of Piano Music with Neural Networks},
   school = {University of Ljubljana},
   address = {Slovenia},
   month = {January},
   year = {2002},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Tzanetakis2002thesis,
   author = {George Tzanetakis},
   title = {Manipulation, Analysis and Retrieval Systems for Audio Signals},
   school = {Princeton University},
   address = {NJ, USA},
   month = {June},
   year = {2002},
   url = {http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~gtzan/work/pubs/thesis02gtzan.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Uitdenbogerd2002thesis,
   author = {Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd},
   title = {Music Information Retrieval Technology},
   school = {RMIT University},
   address = {Melbourne, Victoria, Australia},
   month = {July},
   year = {2002},
   url = {http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~alu/research/mythesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Tiits2002thesis,
   author = {Kalev Tiits},
   title = {On Quantitative Aspects of Musical Meaning},
   school = {University of Helsinki},
   address = {Finland},
   month = {August},
   year = {2002},
   url = {http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/tiits/onquanti.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Griebel2002thesis,
   author = {Herbert Griebel},
   title = {Time-frequency Methods for Pitch Detection},
   school = {Vienna University of Technology},
   address = {Austria},
   month = {September},
   year = {2002},
   url = {http://www2.arcs.ac.at/dissdb/rn039350},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Abdallah2002thesis,
   author = {Samer A. Abdallah},
   title = {Towards Music Perception by Redundancy Reduction and Unsupervised Learning in Probabilistic Models},
   school = {King's College London},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {},
   year = {2002},
   url = {http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/research/thesis/Abdallah2002-thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Bello2003thesis,
   author = {Juan P. Bello},
   title = {Towards the Automated Analysis of Simple Polyphonic Music: {A} Knowledge-based Approach},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {January},
   year = {2003},
   url = {http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/juan/Documents/Bello-PhDthesis-2003.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Gerhard2003thesis,
   author = {David Gerhard},
   title = {Computationally Measurable Differences Between Speech and Song},
   school = {Simon Fraser University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {April},
   year = {2003},
   url = {http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~gerhard/publications/dbg-final-thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Schwarz2004thesis,
   author = {Diemo Schwarz},
   title = {Data-Driven Concatenative Sound Synthesis},
   school = {Ircam - Centre Pompidou},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {January},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn/schwarz/thesis},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Klapuri2004thesis,
   author = {Anssi Klapuri},
   title = {Signal Processing Methods for the Automatic Transcription of Music},
   school = {Tampere University of Technology},
   address = {Finnland},
   month = {March},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/arg/klap/phd/klap_phd.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Pickens2004thesis,
   author = {Jeremy Pickens},
   title = {Harmonic Modeling for Polyphonic Music Retrieval},
   school = {University of Massachusetts Amherst},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {May},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pickens04harmonic.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Bartsch2004thesis,
   author = {Mark A. Bartsch},
   title = {Automatic Singer Identification in Polyphonic Music},
   school = {University of Michigan},
   address = {MI, USA},
   month = {August},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://home.earthlink.net/~bartscma/bartsch_thesis_final.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Hainsworth2004thesis,
   author = {Stephen Webley Hainsworth},
   title = {Techniques for the Automated Analysis of Musical Audio},
   school = {University of Cambridge},
   address = {UK},
   month = {September},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/0%2C685642%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/31304/http:zSzzSzwww-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.ukzSz%7Eswh21zSzthesis.pdf/hainsworth03techniques.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Zils2004thesis,
   author = {Aymeric Zils},
   title = {Extraction de descripteurs musicaux: une approche évolutionniste},
   school = {University of Paris 6},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {September},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://music.csl.sony.fr/EDS/these/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Kilian2004thesis,
   author = {J{\"u}rgen F. Kilian},
   title = {Inferring Score Level Musical Information From Low-Level Musical Data},
   school = {Darmstadt University of Technology},
   address = {Darmstadt, Germany},
   month = {October},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://www.noteserver.org/kilian/diss-jfk-final.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Cemgil2004thesis,
   author = {A. Taylan Cemgil},
   title = {Bayesian Music Transcription},
   school = {Radboud University of Nijmegen},
   address = {Netherlands},
   month = {November},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~atc27/papers/cemgil-thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Park2004thesis,
   author = {Tae Hong Park},
   title = {Towards Automatic Musical Instrument Timbre Recognition},
   school = {Princeton University},
   address = {NJ, USA},
   month = {November},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://www.tulane.edu/~park/publications/ParkPrincetonThesis2004.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Vincent2004thesis,
   author = {Emmanuel Vincent},
   title = {Instrument Models for Source Separation and Transcription of Music Recordings},
   school = {University of Paris 6},
   address = {France},
   month = {December},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/vincent/vincent_PhD.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Doraisamy2004thesis,
   author = {Shyamala Doraisamy},
   title = {Polyphonic Music Retrieval: {T}he N-gram approach},
   school = {Imperial College London},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {},
   year = {2004},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{FitzGerald2004thesis,
   author = {Derry FitzGerald},
   title = {Automatic Drum Transcription and Source Separation},
   school = {Dublin Institute of Technology},
   address = {Dublin, Ireland},
   month = {},
   year = {2004},
   url = {http://homepage.eircom.net/~derryfitzgerald/ThesisFitz.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Monti2004thesis,
   author = {Giuliano Monti},
   title = {A Multipitch Prediction-driven Approach to Polyphonic Music Transcription},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {UK},
   month = {},
   year = {2004},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Baumann2005thesis,
   author = {Stephan Baumann},
   title = {Artificial Listening Systems: {M}odels for the Approximation of the Subjective Perception of Music Similarity (in {German})},
   school = {Technical University of Kaiserslautern},
   address = {Germany},
   month = {March},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~baumann/pdfs/Thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Whitman2005thesis,
   author = {Brian Whitman},
   title = {Learning the Meaning of Music},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {June},
   year = {2005},
   url = {https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/32500/1/61896668.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Chai2005thesis,
   author = {Wei Chai},
   title = {Automated Analysis of Musical Structure},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {September},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~chaiwei/papers/whole0622.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Jehan2005thesis,
   author = {Tristan Jehan},
   title = {Creating Music by Listening},
   school = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
   address = {MA, USA},
   month = {September},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://web.media.mit.edu/~tristan/phd/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Eggink2005thesis,
   author = {Jana Eggink},
   title = {Instrument Recognition and Melody Estimation in Polyphonic Music Based on Limited Time-Frequency Representations},
   school = {University of Sheffield},
   address = {UK},
   month = {September},
   year = {2005},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Purwins2005thesis,
   author = {Hendrik Purwins},
   title = {Profiles of Pitch Classes --- {C}ircularity of Relative Pitch and Key: {E}xperiments, Models, Music Analysis, and Perspectives},
   school = {Technische Universit{\"a}t Berlin},
   address = {Germany},
   month = {October},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/volltexte/2005/1085/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Gouyon2005thesis,
   author = {Fabien Gouyon},
   title = {A Computational Approach to Rhythm Description --- {A}udio Features for the Computation of Rhythm Periodicity Functions and their use in Tempo Induction and Music Content Processing},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {November},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://www.iua.upf.es/~fgouyon/thesis/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Essid2005thesis,
   author = {Slim Essid},
   title = {Automatic Classification of Audio Signals: {M}achine Recognition of Musical Instruments (in {F}rench)},
   school = {Universit{\'e} Pierre et Marie Curie},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {December},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~essid/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Lesaffre2005thesis,
   author = {Micheline Lesaffre},
   title = {Music Information Retrieval: Conceptual Framework, Annotation and User Behavior},
   school = {Ghent University},
   address = {Belgium},
   month = {December},
   year = {2005},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Wang2005thesis,
   author = {Chaokun Wang},
   title = {Research on Key Techniques of Music Data Management and Retrieval (in Chinese)},
   school = {Harbin Institute of Technology},
   address = {China},
   month = {December},
   year = {2005},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Simon2005thesis,
   author = {Scott J. Simon},
   title = {A Multi-Dimensional Entropy Model of Jazz Improvisation for Music Information Retrieval},
   school = {University of North Texas},
   address = {TX, USA},
   month = {December},
   year = {2005},
   url = {http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3206107},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Every2006thesis,
   author = {Mark Every},
   title = {Separation of Musical Sources and Structure from Single-Channel Polyphonic Recordings},
   school = {University of York},
   address = {UK},
   month = {February},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/M.Every/EveryPhD06.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Ahrendt2006thesis,
   author = {Peter Ahrendt},
   title = {Music Genre Classification Systems - A Computational Approach},
   school = {Technical University of Denmark},
   address = {Kongens Lyngby, Denmark},
   month = {February},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/publication_details.php?id=4438},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Pampalk2006thesis,
   author = {Elias Pampalk},
   title = {Computational Models of Music Similarity and their Application in Music Information Retrieval},
   school = {Vienna University of Technology},
   address = {Vienna, Austria},
   month = {March},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.ofai.at/~elias.pampalk/publications/pampalk06thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Meng2006thesis,
   author = {Anders Meng},
   title = {Temporal Feature Integration for Music Organisation},
   school = {Technical University of Denmark},
   address = {Denmark},
   month = {April},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/publication_details.php?id=4502},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Meredith2006thesis,
   author = {David Meredith},
   title = {Computing Pitch Names in Tonal Music: {A} Comparative Analysis of Pitch Spelling Algorithms},
   school = {University of Oxford},
   address = {UK},
   month = {April},
   year = {2006},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Chetry2006thesis,
   author = {Nicolas D. Ch\'{e}try},
   title = {Computer Models for Musical Instrument Identification},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {UK},
   month = {April},
   year = {2006},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Barbosa2006thesis,
   author = {{\'A}lvaro Barbosa},
   title = {Computer-Supported Cooperative Work for Music Applications},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {April},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.abarbosa.org/docs/t_abarbosa.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Aucouturier2006thesis,
   author = {Jean-Julien Aucouturier},
   title = {Ten Experiments on the Modelling of Polyphonic Timbre},
   school = {University of Paris 6},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {May},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.jj-aucouturier.info/papers/PHD-2006.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Adler-Berman2006thesis,
   author = {Tamar C. Adler-Berman},
   title = {A Method for Discovering Musical Patterns Through Time Series Analysis of Symbolic Data},
   school = {Northwestern University},
   address = {IL, USA},
   month = {June},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3212773},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Gomez2006thesis,
   author = {Emilia G{\'o}mez},
   title = {Tonal Description of Music Audio Signals},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {July},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.iua.upf.es/~egomez/thesis/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Brossier2006thesis,
   author = {Paul Brossier},
   title = {Automatic Annotation of Musical Audio for Interactive Applications},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {UK},
   month = {August},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://aubio.piem.org/phd/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Paiva2006thesis,
   author = {Rui Pedro Paiva},
   title = {Melody Detection in Polyphonic Audio},
   school = {University of Coimbra},
   address = {Portugal},
   month = {September},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.cisuc.uc.pt/view_pub.php?id_p=1349},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Zhou2006thesis,
   author = {Ruohua Zhou},
   title = {Feature Extraction of Musical Content for Automatic Music Transcription},
   school = {Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne},
   address = {Swiss},
   month = {October},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=3638},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Grachten2006thesis,
   author = {Maarten Grachten},
   title = {Expressivity-aware Tempo Transformations of Music Performances Using Case Based Reasoning},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {November},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.iiia.csic.es/~maarten/articles/Dissertation-MGrachten-2006.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Virtanen2006thesis,
   author = {Tuomas Virtanen},
   title = {Sound Source Separation in Monaural Music Signals},
   school = {Tampere University of Technology},
   address = {Finland},
   month = {November},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/arg/music/tuomasv/virtanen_phd.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Collins2006thesis,
   author = {Nicholas M. Collins},
   title = {Towards Autonomous Agents for Live Computer Music: Realtime Machine Listening and Interactive Music Systems},
   school = {University of Cambridge},
   address = {UK},
   month = {November},
   year = {2006},
   url = {http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~nc272/thesis.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Batke2007thesis,
   author = {Johann-Markus Batke},
   title = {Analysis of Systems for Melody Search and Methods for Functional Testing (in {German})},
   school = {Technische Universit\"{a}t Berlin},
   address = {Germany},
   month = {January},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/volltexte/2007/1452/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Kaji2007thesis,
   author = {Katsuhiko Kaji},
   title = {A Study on a Universal Platform for Digital Content Annotation and its Application to Music Information Processing (in Japanese)},
   school = {Nagoya University},
   address = {Japan},
   month = {January},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://www.nagao.nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp/papers/kaji_doctoral_thesis.xml},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Streich2007thesis,
   author = {Sebastian Streich},
   title = {Music Complexity: A Multi-faceted Description of Audio Content},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {February},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://mtg.upf.edu/publicacions.php?lng=eng&aul=3&did=425},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Ong2007thesis,
   author = {Bee Suan Ong},
   title = {Structural Analysis and Segmentation of Music Signals},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {February},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://mtg.upf.edu/publicacions.php?lng=eng&aul=3&did=426},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Typke2007thesis,
   author = {Rainer Typke},
   title = {Music Retrieval based on Melodic Similarity},
   school = {Utrecht University},
   address = {Netherlands},
   month = {February},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://rainer.typke.org/publications/music-IR-melodic-similarity.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Kitahara2007thesis,
   author = {Tetsuro Kitahara},
   title = {Computational Musical Instrument Recognition and Its Application to Content-based Music Information Retrieval},
   school = {Kyoto University},
   address = {Japan},
   month = {March},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kitahara/papers/d-thesis-kitahara.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Kameoka2007thesis,
   author = {Hirokazu Kameoka},
   title = {Statistical Approach to Multipitch Analysis},
   school = {University of Tokyo},
   address = {Japan},
   month = {March},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kameoka/Kameoka2007DoctorThesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Cano2007thesis,
   author = {Pedro Cano},
   title = {Content-Based Audio Search from Fingerprinting to Semantic Audio Retrieval},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {April},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://www.iua.upf.edu/mtg/publicacions.php?lng=eng&aul=3&did=434},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Loscos2007thesis,
   author = {Alex Loscos},
   title = {Spectral Processing Of The Singing Voice},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {May},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://mtg.upf.edu/publicacions.php?lng=eng&aul=3&did=435},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Gillet2007thesis,
   author = {Olivier Gillet},
   title = {Transcription des signaux percussifs. Application à l'analyse de scènes musicales audiovisuelles},
   school = {Telecom ParisTech - ENST},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {June},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://pastel.paristech.org/2805/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Davies2007thesis,
   author = {Matthew Davies},
   title = {Towards Automatic Rhythmic Accompaniment},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {August},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/papers/2007/Davies07-phdthesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Camacho2007thesis,
   author = {Arturo Camacho},
   title = {SWIPE: A Sawtooth Waveform Inspired Pitch Estimator for Speech and Music},
   school = {University of Florida},
   address = {FL, USA},
   month = {December},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~acamacho/publications/dissertation.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Wood2007thesis,
   author = {Gavin Wood},
   title = {Content-based visualisation to aid popular navigation of musical audio},
   school = {University of York},
   address = {York, UK},
   month = {},
   year = {2007},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Berenzweig2007thesis,
   author = {Adam Berenzweig},
   title = {Anchors and hubs in audio-based music similarity},
   school = {Columbia University},
   address = {NY, USA},
   month = {},
   year = {2007},
   url = {http://academiccommons.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:7746},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Nakano2008thesis,
   author = {Tomoyasu Nakano},
   title = {A Study on Developing Applications Systems Based on Singing Understanding and Singing Expression (in Japanese)},
   school = {University of Tsukuba},
   address = {Tsukuba, Japan},
   month = {March},
   year = {2008},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Yoshii2008thesis,
   author = {Kazuyoshi Yoshii},
   title = {Studies on Hybrid Music Recommendation Using Timbral and Rhythmic Features},
   school = {Kyoto University},
   address = {Kyoto, Japan},
   month = {March},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/yoshii/d-thesis-yoshii.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Wright2008thesis,
   author = {Matt Wright},
   title = {Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics},
   school = {Stanford University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {March},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~matt/diss/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Lee2008thesis,
   author = {Kyogu Lee},
   title = {A System for Acoustic Chord Transcription and Key Extraction from Audio Using Hidden Markov Models Trained on Synthesized Audio},
   school = {Stanford University},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {March},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kglee/pubs/klee-thesis-final.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Schedl2008thesis,
   author = {Markus Schedl},
   title = {Automatically Extracting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Information on Music Artists from the World Wide Web},
   school = {Johannes Kepler University},
   address = {Linz, Austria},
   month = {July},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://www.cp.jku.at/research/papers/schedl_phd_2008.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Cabra2008thesis,
   author = {Giordano Cabra},
   title = {Real Time Automatic Harmonisation (in {French})},
   school = {University of Paris 6},
   address = {Paris, France},
   month = {July},
   year = {2008},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Burred2008thesis,
   author = {Juan Jos{\'e} Burred},
   title = {From Sparse Models to Timbre Learning: New Methods for Musical Source Separation},
   school = {Technical University of Berlin},
   address = {Berlin, Germany},
   month = {September},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/burred/phd/index.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Suyoto2008thesis,
   author = {Iman S. H. Suyoto},
   title = {Cross-Domain Content-Based Retrieval of Audio Music through Transcription},
   school = {Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)},
   address = {Melbourne},
   month = {September},
   year = {2008},
   url = {Australia},
}

@PHDTHESIS{West2008thesis,
   author = {Kris West},
   title = {Novel Techniques for Audio Music Classification and Search},
   school = {University of East Anglia},
   address = {UK},
   month = {September},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://www.kriswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kw_thesis_final.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Cont2008thesis,
   author = {Arshia Cont},
   title = {Modeling musical anticipation: From the time of music to the music of time},
   school = {University of California in San Diego},
   address = {CA, USA},
   month = {October},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/arshia/index.php?n=Main.Thesis},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Ryynanen2008thesis,
   author = {Matti Ryyn{\"a}nen},
   title = {Automatic Transcription of Pitch Content in Music and Selected Applications},
   school = {Tampere University of Technology},
   address = {Tampere, Finland},
   month = {December},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://www.cs.tut.fi/sgn/arg/matti/ryynanen_phd_intro.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Celma2008thesis,
   author = {{\'O}scar Celma},
   title = {Music Recommendation and Discovery in the Long Tail},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://www.iua.upf.edu/~ocelma/PhD/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Bruderer2008thesis,
   author = {Michael J. Bruderer},
   title = {Perception and Modeling of Segment Boundaries in Popular Music},
   school = {Technische Universiteit Eindhoven},
   address = {Eindhoven, Netherlands},
   month = {},
   year = {2008},
   url = {http://alexandria.tue.nl/extra2/200810559.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Raimond2009thesis,
   author = {Yves Raimond},
   title = {A Distributed Music Information System},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {January},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://moustaki.org/phd/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Martins2009thesis,
   author = {Luis Gustavo Martins},
   title = {A computational Framework for Sound Segregation in Music Signals},
   school = {University of Porto},
   address = {Porto, Portugal},
   month = {February},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://web.me.com/lgustavomartins/research/phd/phd_thesis/phd_thesis.html},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Noland2009thesis,
   author = {Katy Noland},
   title = {Computational Tonality Estimation: Signal Processing and Hidden Markov Models},
   school = {Queen Mary University of London},
   address = {London, UK},
   month = {March},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/katyn/KCNolandThesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Eronen2009thesis,
   author = {Antti Eronen},
   title = {Signal Processing Methods for Audio Classification and Music Content Analysis},
   school = {Tampere University of Technology},
   address = {Tampere, Finland},
   month = {June},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-200906301085},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Baccigalupo2009thesis,
   author = {Claudio Baccigalupo},
   title = {Poolcasting: an intelligent technique to customise music programmes for their audience},
   school = {Universitat Aut{\`o}noma de Barcelona},
   address = {Spain},
   month = {November},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://www2.iiia.csic.es/~claudio/papers/Baccigalupo-2009-PhdThesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Guaus2009thesis,
   author = {Enric Guaus},
   title = {Audio content processing for automatic music genre classification: descriptors, databases, and classifiers},
   school = {University Pompeu Fabra},
   address = {Barcelona, Spain},
   month = {},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://www.iua.upf.edu/~eguaus/phd/},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Bosteels2009thesis,
   author = {Klaas Bosteels},
   title = {Fuzzy techniques in the usage and construction of comparison measures for music objects},
   school = {Ghent University},
   address = {Belgium},
   month = {October},
   year = {2009},
   url = {http://users.ugent.be/~klbostee/thesis.pdf},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Paulus2010thesis,
   author = {Jouni Paulus},
   title = {Signal Processing Methods for Drum Transcription and Music Structure Analysis},
   school = {Tampere University of Technology},
   address = {Finnland},
   month = {January},
   year = {2010},
   url = {},
}

@PHDTHESIS{Pohle2010thesis,
   author = {Tim Pohle},
   title = {Automatic Characterization of Music for Intuitive Retrieval},
   school = {Johannes Kepler University},
   address = {Linz, Austria},
   month = {January},
   year = {2010},
   url = {http://www.cp.jku.at/people/pohle/index.html},
}