As applications tend to increase their level of abstraction and to approach the end-user level, it seemsﾠ clear that one of the focuses is to step up from the signal processing realm and directly address the content level of an audio source. The term ﾴContent Processing` is therefore becoming commonlyﾠ accepted.
The basic idea when implementing a content processing scheme is to have a previous analysis step, in which the content of the signal is identified and described. Then this description can be transmitted, transformed or synthesized.
In this lecture we will review some of the general schemes and models applied to Music Contentﾠ processing. We will also show examples of some applications in this area and give a general overview of the tools that the CLAM framework (http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/clam) offers for general audio and music research and particularly for Music Content Processing.