In this paper a number of issues relating to the application of string processing techniques on musical sequences are discussed. Special attention is given to musical pattern extraction. Firstly, a number of general problems are presented in terms of musical representation and pattern processing methodologies. Then a number of interesting melodic pattern matching problems are presented. Finally...

Perceptual musical functions were investigated in patients suffering from unilateral cerebrovascular cortical lesions. Using MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) technique, a standardized short test battery was established that covers local (analytical) as well as global perceptual mechanisms. These represent the principal cognitive strategies in melodic and temporal musical information ...

Motive Period antecedent consequent contrasting period double period parallel period Phrase group Refrain Small forms binary rounded binary Melodic procedures augmentation conjunct diminution disjunct extension, phrase extension fragmentation internal expansion inversion, melodic inversion literal repetition motivic transformation octave displacement retrograde rhythmic transformation sequence ...

The paper presents our approach to the problem of finding melodic line(s) in polyphonic audio recordings. The approach is composed of two different stages, partially rooted in psychoacoustic theories of music perception: the first stage is dedicated to finding regions with strong and stable pitch (melodic fragments), while in the second stage, these fragments are grouped according to their prop...

Computing melodic similarity is a very general problem with diverse musical applications ranging from music analysis to content-based retrieval. Choosing the appropriate level of representation is a crucial issue and depends on the type of application. Our research interest concerns the development of a CBR system for expressive music processing. In that context, a well chosen distance measure ...

Melodic properties of turn boundaries in face-to-face and nonface-to-face interactions are analyzed from a production and a perception viewpoint. Results show that although listeners seem to be able to predict turn management in telephone speech when some conditions are met, melodic information by itself is for the most part insufficient to indicate turn transition to conversationalists.

Despite the fact that musical parallelism is considered as an important factor for musical segmentation, there have been very few attempts to describe systematically how exactly it affects grouping processes. The main problem is that musical parallelism itself is very difficult to formalise. In this paper a computational model will be presented that extracts melodic patterns from a given melodi...