Introduction Various methods for symbolic melodic search have been proposed, from string matching based approaches to geometric models [3]. A study on melodies in the Dutch Song Database (www.liederenbank.nl) has shown that sequence alignment methods are quite powerful at dealing with melodic variability [2]. We investigate the potential of such methods for retrieving RISM incipits, comparing 2...

This research explored the relations between the predictability of musical structure, expressive timing in performance, and listeners' perceived musical tension. Studies analyzing the influence of expressive timing on listeners' affective responses have been constrained by the fact that, in most pieces, the notated durations limit performers' interpretive freedom. To circumvent this issue, we f...

In this paper, we describe an approach to inducing an expressive music performance model from a set of audio recordings of XVIII century bassoon pieces. We use a melodic transcription system which extracts a set of acoustic features from the recordings producing a melodic representation of the expressive performance played by the musician. We apply a machine learning techniques to this represen...

This paper presents the results of an experiment to test the influence of IOI, dynamics, pitch change, and pitch direction change on melodic segmentation, extending an an earlier experiment [4]. The new results show little to no significant influence of pitch, when evaluated by a linear or log-linear statistical model with regression. This supports the earlier findings, which are in contrast to...

Carnatic music, the classical music of South India, is rich in melodic and devotional content. Vocal renderings effectively convey the devotional aspect, and a variety of instruments enhance the melodic effect of the vocal renderings. After briefly tracing the origins and early development of Carnatic music, we will describe vocal and instrumental renderings and provide a comparison. We also al...

Melody is an important property for the perceptual description of Western musical pieces. In the monophonic context, retrieval systems based on melodic similarity generally consider sequences of pitches and durations. Algorithms that have been proposed for measuring melodic similarity rely on geometric representations, string matching techniques, etc. Adaptations of editing algorithms, mainly a...

A prominent categorization of Indian classical music is the Hindustani and Carnatic traditions, the two styles having evolved under distinctly different historical and cultural influences. Both styles are grounded in the melodic and rhythmic framework of raga and tala. The styles differ along dimensions such as instrumentation, aesthetics and voice production. In particular, Carnatic music is p...

The brain processes temporal statistics to predict future events and to categorize perceptual objects. These statistics, called expectancies, are found in music perception, and they span a variety of different features and time scales. Specifically, there is evidence that music perception involves strong expectancies regarding the distribution of a melodic interval, namely, the distance between...

This paper presents SLAM : a simple method for the automatic Stylization and LAbelling of speech Melody. This main contributions over existing methods are : the alphabet of melodic contours is fully data-driven, an explicit time-frequency representation is used to derive complex melodic contours, and melodic contours can be determined over arbitrary prosodic/syntactic units. Additionally, the s...