This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference
on Mathematics and Computation in Music MCM 2015 held in London UK in June 2015. The 24
full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64
submissions. The papers feature research that combines mathematics or computation with music
theory music analysis composition and performance. They are organized in topical sections on
notation and representation music generation patterns performance similarity and contrast
post-tonal music analysis geometric approaches deep learning and scales.