dan tidhar

contact details

Research Fellow
Department of Music and Music Informatics Research Group
City University London

e-mail: dan[dot]tidhar[dot]1[at]city.ac.uk

publications (etc)

Journal articles

D. Tidhar, S. Dixon, E. Benetos, and T. Weyde. The Temperament Police. Early Music November 2014 Issue (to appear).


M. Küssner, D. Tidhar, H. Prior, and D. Leech-Wilkinson. Musicians are more consistent: Gestural cross-modal mappings of pitch, loudness and tempo in real-time. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 789. 2014.


M. Woolhouse, J. Renwick, and D. Tidhar. Every Track You Take: Analysing the Dynamics of Song and Genre Reception Through Music Downloading. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 2014.


S. Dixon, M. Mauch, and D. Tidhar. Estimation of Harpsichord Inharmonicity and Temperament from Musical Recordings. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (131,1), 2012.


D. Tidhar, M. Mauch, G. Fazekas, and S. Dixon. TempEst - Harpsichord temperament estimation in a Semantic Web environment. Journal of New Music Research (39, 4) 2010.


Books and book chapters

D. Tidhar. A Hierarchical and Deterministic Approach to Music Grammars and its Application to Unmeasured Preludes. dissertation.de, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89825-996-x.


D. Tidhar. Modeling Music with Grammar. In: Bab et al. (eds.) Models and Human Reasoning. Wissenachft & Technik Verlag, 2005.


D. Cavar, U. Küssner, and D. Tidhar. From Off-line Evaluation to On-line Selection. In: W. Wahlster Ed. Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech to Speech Translation, Springer Verlag, 2000.


Conference papers

D. Wolff, D. Tidhar, E. Benetos, E. Dumon, S. Cherla, and Tillman Weyde. Incremental Dataset Definition for Large Scale Musicological Research. 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014), ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference, London 2014


T. Weyde, S. Cottrell, J. Dykes, E. Benetos, D. Wolff, D. Tidhar, N. Gold, S. Abdallah, M. Plumbley, S. Dixon, M. Barthet, M. Mahey, A. Tovell, and A. Alancar-Brayner. Big Data for Musicology. 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014), ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference, London 2014


D. Tidhar, S. Cherla, D. Wolff, and T. Weyde. An iterative learning approach to dataset demarcation in music analysis European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA 2014), Bremen, 2014.


T. Weyde, S. Cottrell, E. Benetos, D. Wolff, D. Tidhar, J. Dykes, M. Plumbley, S. Dixon, M. Barthet, N. Gold, S. Abdallah, and M. Mahey. Digital Music Lab - A Framework for Analysing Big Music Data European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA 2014), Bremen, 2014.


S. Cherla, D. Tidhar, A. d'Avila Garcez, and T. Weyde. Machine Learning for the Analysis of a Large Collection of Musical Scales European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA 2014), Bremen, 2014.


D. Tidhar, M. Woolhouse, and J. Bansal. Songs from Overseas: Music Downloading as a Marker of Migration. In : Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science CAIS-ACSI, Victoria BC, Canada, 2013.


D. Tidhar Towards gesture-based visualisation of music. CMPCP Conference on Music and Shape, IMR, London, 2012.


D. Tidhar The shaping of unmeasured preludes. CMPCP Conference on Music and Shape, IMR, London, 2012.


L. Hadley, D. Tidhar, and M. Woolhouse. Effects of Observed Music-Gesture Synchronicity on Gaze and Memory In: Proceedings of ICMPC-ESCOM 2012.


M. Woolhouse and D. Tidhar. Querying 1.8 Million Music Downloads from 13 Countries In : Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science CAIS-ACSI, Ontario, Canada, 2012.


M. Küssner, N. Gold, D. Tidhar, H.Prior, and D. Leech-Wilkinson. Sound Traces: Digital Acquisition of Musical Shapes Supporting Digital Humanities (SDH) Copenhagen, November 2011.


D. Tidhar and F. Knights. Recorded Temperament The 1st international conference on Historical Keyboard Music, Edinburgh, July 2011.


S. Dixon, D. Tidhar, and E. Benetos. The temperament police: the truth, the ground truth, and nothing but the truth International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2011.


D. Tidhar, M. Mauch, and S. Dixon. High precision frequency estimation for harpsichord tuning classification IEEE International conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010.


M. Woolhouse and D. Tidhar. Group dancing leads to increased person-perception. Proceedings of the 11th ICMPC, Seattle, USA, pp.605-608 2010


D. Tidhar, G. Fazekas, S. Kolozali, and M. Sandler. Publishing music similarity features on the Semantic Web International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Kobe, Japan, 2009.


M. Mauch, C. Cannam, M. Davies, S. Dixon, C. Harte, S. Kolozali, and D. Tidhar OMRAS2 Metadata project International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Japan, 2009.


D. Tidhar Towards a unified computational approach to lute and harpsichord unmeasured preludes IAML-IMS conference, Amsterdam, July 2009.


S. Teufel, A. Siddharthan, and D. Tidhar. Automatic classification of citation function. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'06), Sydney, Australia, 2006.


S. Teufel, A. Siddharthan, and D. Tidhar. An annotation scheme for citation function. In Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue 2006, Sydney, Australia.


W. Hollingsworth , I. Lewin, and D. Tidhar. Retrieving Hierarchical Text Structure from Typeset Scientific Articles - a Prerequisite for E-Science Text Mining. In: proceedings of the AHM2005 - Innovation through e-science, Nottingham, 2005.


R. Gold and D. Tidhar. Towards a Content-based Aggregation Network. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Linköping, 2001.


R. Gold and D.Tidhar. Concurrent routing protocols in an Active Ad-Hoc Network. In: Proceedings of the AISB ’01 Symposium on Software Mobility and Adaptive Behaviour, York, 2001.


D. Tidhar and U. Küssner. Learning to Select a Good Translation. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2000, Saarbrücken.


U. Küssner and D. Tidhar. Verbmobil - Fehlertoleranz durch Redundanz. In: Proceedings of KONVENS 2000, Ilmenau.


S. Koch , U. Küssner, M. Stede, and D. Tidhar. Contextual reasoning in speech-to-speech translation. In: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing, NLP 2000, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2000.


U. Küssner and D. Tidhar. Combining Different Translation Sources. In: Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Natural Language Processing, NLP 2000, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (2000).


D. Cavar, U. Küssner, and D. Tidhar. From Human Evaluation to Automatic Selection of Good Translations. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000 - Workshop on the Evaluation of Machine Translation.


M. Stede and D. Tidhar. Towards a Humor switch in Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Creative Language: Humour and Stories, Edinburgh, 1999.


Conference reports

D. Tidhar. Early early music. Early Music 2014.


D. Tidhar. The international keyboard. Early Music 2013.


D. Tidhar. Celebrating Kenneth Gilbert. Early Music 40, 4. 2012.


Technical reports

B. Mahr, S. Koch, U. Küssner, M. Stede, and D. Tidhar. "Kontextauswertung" im Verbundprojekt Verbmobil II: Multilinguale robuste und direkte Übersetzung spontansprachlicher Dialoge. (KIT-Report 143, 2001, TU-Berlin).


Invited talks

Police and beyond - temperament estimation from harpsichord recordings Invited speaker at the CIRMMT AR3 workshop, McGill University, Montreal, June 2012.


Musicology and Music Information Retrieval Tools (with D. Leech-Wilkinson) invited tutorial at the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR), London, June 2012.


The silent disco experiment British psychological society second seminar on music and language BPS2, Cambridge, December 2010.


The silent disco project (with M. Woolhouse), Entrainment Workshop, Music department, Open University, Milton Keyns, 7 December 2009.


Sonic visualiser for musicoligists IMR research training roadshow 'Studying Music through Science and Technology' University of London, Senate House. 11 May 2009.


Music similarity with SoundBite OMRAS2 workshop at DMRN day, Queen Mary Universuty of London, December 2008.


Poster presentations

M. Barthet, E. Benetos, S. Cottrell, S. Dixon, J. Dykes, N. Gold, M. Mahey, M. Plumbley, D. Tidhar, T. Weyde, D. Wolff. The DML Research Project: Digital Music Lab - Analysing Big Music Data. Workshop on "Big Data: Challenges and Applications", Emperial College, London, February 2014.


D. Tidhar. Well-tempered language. 3rd British Psychological Society Seminar on Music And Language (BPS3) London, September 2011.


D. Tidhar and G. Fazekas. The temperament ontology. Digital Music Research Network Day 2009.


D. Tidhar. Computational approaches to unmeasured preludes. Digital Music Research Network Day, London 2008.


D. Tidhar. A cognitively-motivated deterministic grammar for unmeasured preludes. Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Cambridge 2007.


D. Tidhar. Towards artificial performance of unmeasured preludes with COUPERIN. International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence ICMAI 2002, Edinburgh.