Atte Tenkanen. Case studies for Systematic Music Analysis

Atte Tenkanen. Case studies for Systematic Music Analysis

In his lecture Atte Tenkanen presents three different approaches to systematic computer assisted music analysis.

Atte Tenkanen (b. 1965) works as a church musician in Lohja, Finland. He studied church music at the Sibelius Academy (Master of Music 1992) and completed his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Turku in 2010. In his doctoral research, he aimed at creating, developing and evaluating algorithms and tools that extract musical information from compositions and MIDI-recorded improvisations. He focused particularly on the analytical method, named as Comparison Structure Analysis. Tenkanen has studied composition with Olli Kortekangas, Tapio Nevanlinna and Jyrki Linjama. His compositional output mainly consists of compositions for liturgical contexts.