Little is known about whether infants perceive meter, the underlying temporal structure of music. We employed a habituation paradigm to examine whether 7-month-old infants could categorize rhythmic and melodic patterns on the basis of the underlying meter, which was implied from event and accent frequency of occurrence. In Experiment 1, infants discriminated duple and triple classes of rhythm o...

In this paper the capability of using self-organising neural maps (SOM) as music style classifiers from symbolic specifications of musical fragments is studied. From MIDI file sources, the monophonic melody track is extracted and cut into fragments of equal length. From these sequences, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic numerical descriptors are computed and presented to the SOM. Their performanc...

In this paper the capability of using self-organising neural maps (SOM) as music style classifiers of musical fragments is studied. From MIDI files, the monophonic melody track is extracted and cut into fragments of equal length. From these sequences, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic numerical descriptors are computed and presented to the SOM. Their performance is analysed in terms of separabili...

In this paper the capability of using self-organising neural maps (SOM) as music style classifiers of musical fragments is studied. From MIDI files, the monophonic melody track is extracted and cut into fragments of equal length. From these sequences, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic numerical descriptors are computed and presented to the SOM. Their performance is analysed in terms of separabili...

This paper describes a research work on peer-to-peer music search based on the combination of content based descriptors and textual metadata. The envisaged scenario is the one of a user who searches for documents according either to their melodic and rhythmic content, and to additional information about the title, the instrumentation, or tempo in the form of textual metadata. Two different over...

This paper describes the development, evaluation and use of the computer program ModusXXI, a music generator that can create a practically unlimited number of atonal melodic dictations, or melodic material for sight-reading, based on the Modus Novus methodology [Edlund, 1963]. Lars Edlund’s Modus Novus organizes the aural study of atonal melody structure on the combinations of intervals that wi...

Melodic contour (the sequence of ups and downs ina melody, regardless of interval size) expresses t[ose aspects of a melody that are most essential to manipulation of that melody in various musical structures, e.g., folktunes and fugues. This is demonstrated by brief analyses of actual music. Two experiments demon-, strate the role of melodic contour recognition in memory for melodies. Experime...