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The work presented in this dissertation investigates music segmentation. In the field of Musicology, segmentation refers to a score analysis technique, whereby notated pieces or passages of these pieces are divided into “units” referred to as sections, periods, phrases, and so on. Segmentation analysis is a widespread practice among musicians: performers use it to help them memorise pieces, music theorists and historians use it to compare works, music students use it to understand the compositional strategies of a given composer or genre. In the field of Music Psychology it is posited that a similar type of analysis is performed by our auditory system when constructing mental representations of music. In fact, most theories consider segmentation to be a core listening mechanism, fundamental to the way humans recognise, categorise, and ...