Language, Music and Computing

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2017. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on the universal grammar of music, the surface of music and singing, language as music, music computing, formalization of the informality.