Abstract
This study is concerned with an issue of automatic data understanding being treated as a fundamental tool used in cognitive maps creation. The underlying objective of this paper is to elaborate on a paradigm of automatic data understanding. We highlight the syntactic and semantic aspects of data. Granular Computing and information granules play a central role in all processes of data understanding by facilitating establishing a suitable perspective at the problem at hand where the data need to be looked at. Our intent is to illustrate a realization of the paradigm in the realm of music information, its processing and understanding, rather than embarking on the formal framework.