We describe a novel Query-by-Example (QBE) approach in Music Information Retrieval, which allows a user to customize query examples by directly modifying the volume of different instrument parts. The underlying hypothesis is that the musical genre shifts (changes) in relation to the volume balance of different instruments. On the basis of this hypothesis, we aim to clarify the relationship betw...

This paper discusses a new approach for clustering musical bass-line patterns representing particular genres and its application to audio genre classification. Many musical genres are characterized not only by timbral information but also by distinct representative bass-line patterns. So far this kind of temporal features have not so effectively been utilized. In particular, modern music songs ...

Understanding the timbre and pitch of musical instruments is an important issue for automatic music transcription, music information retrieval and computational auditory scene analysis. In particular, recent worldwide popularization of online music distribution services and portable digital music players makes musical instrument recognition even more important. Musical instruments are one of th...

While modern musicology has seen the frequent exploration of issues of historiography and canonicity, biography itself has largely eluded critical investigation until much more recently. The discipline has lately challenged the aesthetic of musical canon, for many decades a largely uncontested phenomenon, as well as that of the Great Composer. Recent scholarship has similarly addressed the matt...

We propose a system which is based on fuzzy c-means clustering and automatically organizes a collection of music files according to musical surface characteristics (e.g., zero crossings, short-time energy, etc.) and tempo. Our system is complemented by semantic metadata which offers the user the ability to check the clustering result, correct existing textual meta-information (such as genre and...

The purpose of this essay is to trace the lines evolution Russian romance, which found fertile ground for its development from mid-18th century. genre was firmly embedded in a tradition that had originated century and half earlier, but roots lay oral production ancient Rus’. Despite strong historical-anthropological imprint, diachronic as hybrid dual nature—poetic musical—addressed both elite m...

This paper describes experimental research investigating the genre classification utility of combining features extracted from lyrical, audio, symbolic and cultural sources of musical information. It was found that cultural features consisting of information extracted from both web searches and mined listener tags were particularly effective, with the result that classification accuracies were ...

A critical reassessment of the reception of early jazz in Britain Abstract The Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s visit in 1919-20 has been well documented as the beginning of jazz in Britain. This article illuminates a more complex evolution of the image and presence of jazz in Britain through consideration of the cultural and musical antecedents of the genre, including minstrel shows and black mu...