Music informatics

Music informatics is a study of music processing, in particular music representations, fourier analysis of music, music synchronization, music structure analysis and chord recognition. Other music informatics research topics include computational music modeling (symbolic, distributed, etc.), computational music analysis, optical music recognition, digital audio editors, online music search engines, music information retrieval and cognitive issues in music. Because music informatics is an emerging discipline, it is a very dynamic area of research with many diverse viewpoints, whose future is yet to be determined.
Music informatics in education.
Music informatics, as a degree subject, offers a similar learning experience to music technology, but goes further into learning the principles behind the technology. Informatics students will not just use existing music hardware and software, but will learn programming and artificial intelligence.