If you like music and interested in digital signal processing, this book is for you. The author experimented with digital music processing in his diploma thesis that you, dear Reader, can read in this book. It is not a science book with hard mathematics but a documentation of interesting experiments on note, chord and beat detection, supported with figures and source codes. The author's aim is to arouse the interest in musical processing with computers and help to take the first steps to make further work. For the sake of simplicity the experiments were done in MATLAB, the popular...