The paper analyses the features of a symphony style inThe Ukrainian Quintet by Borys Liatoshynsky, finding that most researchers consider this work to be written for string quartet and piano. grounds statement lie in ideological depth dramatic concept tragic conflict Quintet, scale thematic transformations, introduction monothematism as basic principle composition, use semantic, genre, modal, m...

Melodic search engines let people find music in online collections by specifying the desired melody. Comparing the query melody to every item in a large database is prohibitively slow. If melodies can be placed in a metric space, search can be sped by comparing the query to a limited number of vantage melodies, rather than the entire database. We describe a simple melody metric that is customiz...

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 edit distance based algorith...

This paper presents a study of the effects of syntax and melodic configuration on turntaking in Southern British English. Using dialogue materials, two perception experiments were carried out. In the first, subjects heard dialogue fragments in which syntactic completeness and melodic contour were systematically varied, and were asked whether they expected a subsequent turn exchange or not. In t...

In this paper, we propose a method to generate newmelodic styles (melodics) in the automatic composition of polyphonic music. In the proposed method, a melodic style is represented as a grammar that consists of rewriting rules, and the rewriting rules are generated by a classifier system, which is a genetics-based machine learning system. In the previous studies of grammatical approaches, the p...

Standard MIDI files contain data that can be considered as a symbolic representation of music (a digital score), and most of them are structured as a number of tracks, one of them usually containing the melodic line of the piece, while the other tracks contain the accompaniment. The objective of this work is to identify the track containing the melody using statistical properties of the notes a...

To find occurrences of melodic segments, such as themes, phrases and motifs, in musical works, a well-performing similarity measure is needed to support human analysis of large music corpora. We evaluate the performance of a range of melodic similarity measures to find occurrences of phrases in folk song melodies. We compare the similarity measures correlation distance, city-block distance, Euc...