We all share similar innate emotions, but our cultural experiences nurture us to express them differently. The musical form “theme and variations” offer us a unique lens to uncover in each culture the relationships between the musical surface that touches us most directly, and the underlying structures that are more abstract. Variations are musical surfaces composed to explore the expressive po...

We demonstrate a web-based lightweight real-time melodic analysis and visualization system for Indian art music. Our system uses pitch class profiles, pitch transitions and melodic phrases for melodic characterization and rāga recognition. For each rāga we store a dictionary of its svaras (notes), svara transitions, and typical melodic phrases. We process the input vocals in real-time to estima...

This poster considers the use of different levels of melodic resolution in acoustically driven music retrieval systems from the viewpoint of search-key lengths. A query-by-humming application was constructed to evaluate the dependencies between the melodic resolution, database size and the search-key length in order to consider the optimal level of melodic resolution in music retrieval applicat...

Detecting the occurrences of rāgs’ characteristic melodic phrases from polyphonic audio recordings is a fundamental task for the analysis and retrieval of Indian art music. We propose an abstraction process and a complexity weighting scheme which improve melodic similarity by exploiting specific melodic characteristics in this music. In addition, we propose a tetrachord normalization to handle ...

This paper addresses one aspect of human music cognition, which is the recollection of melodic sequences stored in short-term memory, and the manipulation of such items in working memory, by measuring spans of successfully recalled melodic sequences. In order to avoid long-term memory collaboration in this task, short-term memory measurements are made using randomly-generated melodic sequences,...

Rāgas in Indian Art Music have a florid dynamism associated with them. Owing to their inherent structural intricacies, the endeavor of mapping melodic contours to musical notation becomes cumbersome. We explore the potential of mapping, through quantization of melodic contours and listening test of synthesized music, to capture the nuances of rāgas. We address both Hindustani and Carnatic music...

The concept of melodic similarity has become increasingly relevant in the light of music retrieval and music content processing systems. We propose a new way of measuring melodic similarity, based on analyses of the melody according to the Implication/Realization (I/R) model [7] for melodic structure and cognition. The similarity is assessed as the edit-distance between these I/R analyses. We p...

The objective of this work is to find the melodic line in MIDI files. Usually, the melodic line is stored in a single track, while the other tracks contain the accompaniment. The detection of the track that contains the melodic line can be very useful for a number of applications, such as melody matching when searching in MIDI databases. The system was developed using WEKA. First, a set of desc...

The presented study deals with extraction of melodic line(s) from polyphonic audio recordings. We base our work on the use of expectation maximization algorithm, which is employed in a two-step procedure that finds melodic lines in audio signals. In the first step, EM is used to find regions in the signal with strong and stable pitch (melodic fragments). In the second step, these fragments are ...

In treating the subject of musical language, a Persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the Persian music and language. Indeed Persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). Although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” c...