Reference: An algorithm for recognizing the main melody of orchestral music based on artificial intelligence of music melody contour

Melody Maker The Music

In this paper we describe how we have developed an application that is capable of evolving melodies with some human help to guide it. We have developed this system using evolutionary algorithms and interactive evolution. The user can use the application to, first, evolve short blocks of notes, and second, to combine these blocks into longer melodies using more evolutionary techniques. The resul...

Selection of Melody Lines for Music Databases

Extracting Predominant Melody of Polyphonic Music based on Harmonic Structure

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting predominant melody of polyphonic music based on harmonic structure. We extract all meaningful spectral peaks contained in the polyphonic signal and select the F0 candidates by verifying the required condition of harmonic structure. Then, we determine the predominant F0 by running the pitch tracking based on the rank of F0 candidates which is com...

Was Parsons right? An experiment in usability of music representations for melody-based music retrieval

In 1975 Parsons developed his dictionary of musical themes based on a simple contour representation. The motivation was that people with little training in music would be able to identify pieces of music. We decided to test whether people of various levels of musical skill could indeed make use of a text representation to describe a simple melody query. The results indicate that the task is bey...

A Novel Melody Line Identification Algorithm for Polyphonic MIDI Music

The problem of automatic melody line identification in a MIDI file plays an important role towards taking QBH systems to the next level. We present here, a novel algorithm to identify the melody line in a polyphonic MIDI file. A note pruning and track / channel ranking method is used to identify the melody line. We use results from musicology to derive certain simple heuristics for the note pru...