This master’s thesis explores the field of digital musicology, with a specific focus on the visualization of melodic contour. It examines approaches to defining contour, reviews existing research in both musical and non-musical contexts, and presents digital musical notation formats alongside computational tools created for melodic analysis. The thesis describes the functionality and structure of a computer tool developed as part of this research for various forms of melodic contour visualization, testing it on a collection of monophonic children's songs. In this experiment, contour proves to be an intuitive yet information-rich element of musical structure, offering opportunities for exploring similarities between compositions, identifying musical patterns, and complementing other types of computational analysis.
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