The goal of this special issue is to gather relevant, high-quality research on computational methods and applications in ethnomusicology. The papers included here deal with different musical facets such as pitch, pulse and tempo, and voice timbre. They address different musical repertoires, from Central-African to Basque folk music. They also cover a broad area: tools, including data collections, methodology and Ethnomusicology core-problems.

The list of articles include:

• Computational Ethnomusicology: perspectives and challenges by Emilia Gómez, Perfecto Herrera and Francisco Gómez-Martin
• Antipattern Discovery in Folk Tunes by Darrell Conklin
• Tarsos, a Modular Platform for Precise Pitch Analysis of Western and Non-Western Music by Joren Six, Olmo Cornelis and Marc Leman
• Evaluation and Recommendation of Pulse and Tempo Annotation in Ethnic Music by Olmo Cornelis, Joren Six, Andre Holzapfel and Marc Leman
• Breathy, Resonant, Pressed – Automatic Detection of Phonation Mode from Audio Recordings of Singing by Polina Proutskova, Christophe Rhodes, Tim Crawford and Geraint Wiggins
• A Location-Tracking Interface for Ethnomusicological Collections by Michela Magas and Polina Proutskova

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