This volume comprises a selection of papers presented at the first International C- ference on
Mathematics and Computation in Music - mcm2007. The conference took place at the Staatliches
Institut für Musikforschung PK - National Institute for Music Research in Berlin during May
18-20 2007 and was jointly organized by the National Institute for Music Research Berlin and
the Society of Mathematics and Computation in Music. The papers were selected for the
conference by the program committee and classfied into talks and posters. All papers underwent
further selection revision and elaboration for this book publication. The articles cover a
research field which is heterogeneous with respect to content scientific language and
methodology. On one hand this reflects the heterogeneity and richness of the musical subject
domain itself. On the other hand it exemplifies a t- sion which has been explicitly intended
by both the organizers and the founders of the society namely to support the integration of
mathematical and computational - proaches to music theory composition analysis and
performance. The subdivision into three parts reflects the original structure of the program.
These parts are opened by invited papers and followed by talks and posters.
