Melodic similarity is an important concept for music databases, musicological studies, and interactive music systems. Dynamic programming is commonly used to compare melodies, often with a distance function based on pitch differences measured in semitones. This approach computes an “edit distance” as a measure of melodic dissimilarity. The problem can also be viewed in probabilistic terms: What...

We present a new method for establishing an alignment between a polyphonic musical score and a corresponding sampled audio performance. The method uses a graphical model containing both discrete variables, corresponding to score position, as well as a continuous latent tempo process. We use a simple data model based only on the pitch content of the audio signal. The data interpretation is defin...

The music similarity question is yet to be defined. From an objective signal point of view, at least three classes of similarities may be considered: pitch, rhythm, and timbre. Within each class, several scales of analysis may be evaluated: segment, beat, pattern, section. We propose a recursive approach to this hierarchical and perceptual similarity problem. Our musically meaningful set of mea...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...