Analyzing Measure Annotations for Western Classical Music Recordings

نویسندگان

  • Christof Weiß
  • Vlora Arifi-Müller
  • Thomas Prätzlich
  • Rainer Kleinertz
  • Meinard Müller
چکیده

This paper approaches the problem of annotating measure positions in Western classical music recordings. Such annotations can be useful for navigation, segmentation, and cross-version analysis of music in different types of representations. In a case study based on Wagner’s opera “Die Walküre”, we analyze two types of annotations. First, we report on an experiment where several human listeners generated annotations in a manual fashion. Second, we examine computer-generated annotations which were obtained by using score-to-audio alignment techniques. As one main contribution of this paper, we discuss the inconsistencies of the different annotations and study possible musical reasons for deviations. As another contribution, we propose a kernel-based method for automatically estimating confidences of the computed annotations which may serve as a first step towards improving the quality of this automatic method.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016