This paper presents first steps towards a simple, robust computational model of automatic melody identification. Based on results from music psychology that indicate a relationship between melodic complexity and a listener’s attention, we postulate a relationship between musical complexity and the probability of a musical line to be perceived as the melody. We introduce a simple measure of melo...

Melodic similarity is an important research topic in music information retrieval. The representation of symbolic music by means of trees has proven to be suitable in melodic similarity computation, because they are able to code rhythm in their structure leaving only pitch representations as a degree of freedom for coding. In order to compare trees, different edit distances have been previously ...

MelodyShape is a Java library and tool to compute the melodic similarity between monophonic music pieces. It implements several algorithms that compute similarity based on the geometric shape that melodies describe in the pitch-time plane. All these algorithms have obtained the best results in the MIREX Symbolic Melodic Similarity task in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 editions, as well ...

Hyperscore is a graphical, computer-assisted composition system that allows users to intuitively visualize and edit musical structures. It maps musical features to graphical elements such as color, shape, and line texture. These graphical elements allow users to control both high and low-level musical features such as pitch, dynamics, melodic contour, and harmonic tension. Hyperscore facilitate...

In this paper we argue for a slightly modified conception of phonological representations along the lines of Government Phonology. Releasing C and V from their traditional, phonetically oriented connotations as consonants and vowels and promoting them into abstract phonological primitives, we show that phonological elements, melodic expressions and phonological structure can be viewed in a unfi...

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Jazz music is a genre that consists mainly of improvising over known tunes, represented as a lead sheet. This study addresses the question ‘towhat extent does a lead sheet carry information about its composer?’ Primarily, this study considers chord progressions alone, and secondarily melodic and temporal information combined with various multiple viewpoint models. Using these classifiers, a nov...

This paper describes both a newly developed method for manual annotation for aspects of melodic similarity and its use for evaluating melody features concerning their contribution to perceived similarity. The second issue is also addressed with a computational evaluation method. These approaches are applied to a corpus of folk song melodies. We show that classification of melodies could not be ...

A method is presented to extract musical features from melodic material. Various viewpoints are defined to focus on complementary aspects of the material. To model the melodic context, two measures of entropy are employed: A set of trained probabilistic models capture local structures via the information-theoretic notion of unpredictability, and an alternative entropymeasure based on adaptive c...

This extended abstract is for the “Audio Melody Extraction” evaluation in MIREX2010. We describe an algorithm that estimates the melody line from a music audio signal. The algorithm is comprised of two stages: melodic component enhancement and melody line tracking. Only a few researchers used this approach because of difficulties of the melody enhancement. Our enhancement algorithm focuses on t...