hen I began thinking about writing, collecting, and commissioning essays about music criticism, I wondered whether I might feel like Charlie Brown in Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! When he puts a single ornament on the lonesome, fragile Christmas tree he finds, it falls over. Charlie Brown throws his hands up in the air and says, “Augh! I’ve killed it!” I wondered if making rock criticism an a...

30 second-snippets from 37 songs have been automatically extracted. All phonemes from this pieces have been manually labeled. The considered genre was popular music. 21 songs have been performed by male singers. 16 songs have been performed by female singers. Altogether 2244 phonemes have been manually labeled and can be used by the system. Only 15 voiced phonemes have been distinguished, becau...

Automatic lyrics synchronization for karaoke applications is a major challenge in the field of music information retrieval. An important pre-requisite in order to precisely synchronize the music and corresponding text is the detection of single phonemes in the vocal part of polyphonic music. This paper describes a system, which detects the phonemes based on a state-of-the-art audio information ...

According to a programmatic article by Philip Tagg on theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of popular music studies (Tagg (1982)), folk or traditional music is one of the three possible kinds of music, together with classical (or art music) and popular music. This typology constitutes what Tagg calls an axiomatic triangle of musical genres, each of which being characterized by crit...

As the digital music becomes more and more popular and huge, there are a wide range of music services, especially in music information retrieval (MIR). With the rapid progress of the information science and technology, the content-based music analysis and processing become hot area. MIR seeks to utilize the theory of music to better search database of music contents through musical expressed qu...