ambits of tones (as one of the most important elements of mode structure) in old iranian music have multiple kinds and definitions. middle eastern musicologists have always tried to explain and devise tones ambits, because ambits of tones and structure of mode are irrefrangible. generally purpose of division of ambits to their components is explanation of melodic modules and their combination. ...

This paper proposes an efficient pattern extraction algorithm that can be applied on melodic sequences that are represented as strings of abstract intervallic symbols; the melodic representation introduces special “don’t care” symbols for intervals that may belong to two partially overlapping intervallic categories. As a special case the well established “step-leap” representation is examined. ...

This paper proposes an efficient pattern extraction algorithm that can be applied on melodic sequences that are represented as strings of abstract intervallic symbols; the melodic representation introduces special ‘‘binary don’t care’’ symbols for intervals that may belong to two partially overlapping intervallic categories. As a special case the well established ‘‘step–leap’’ representation is...

This abstract sketches the approach and the employed means for constructing measures of melodic similarity in our software toolbox SIMILE. For different tasks related to melodic similarity different hybrid algorithms proved to be optimal. The hybrid algorithms consist of several single algorithms mostly known in the literature that are taken together in a linear combination. One special linear ...

In this paper a computational model is presented that extracts patterns from a given melodic surface and, then, following the assumption that the beginning and ending points of 'significant' repeating musical patterns influence the segmentation of a musical surface, the discovered patterns are used as a means to determine probable segmentation points of the melody. ‘Significant’ patterns are de...

In this paper, we investigate the task of melodic similarity search in large melody databases with special interest in the case where the melody looked for is not part of the database. We discuss some basic questions concerning this issue and devise a technical framework for a potential solution. The main part discusses several statistical measures for their quality as melodic comparison measur...

Within the stratified harmonic behavior known as melodic-harmonic divorce, this paper identifies a gesture repeated idiomatically across rock repertory. Dubbed “sub-circle” motion, idiom is specifically form of syntax divorce wherein melodic layer unfolds in way consonant with and suggestive circle-of-fifths root motion (+P4) between two accompanying major chords; however, layer...

DESPITE THE CONSIDERATION THAT musical parallelism is an important factor for musical segmentation, there have been relatively few systematic attempts to describe exactly how it affects grouping processes. The main problem is that musical parallelism itself is difficult to formalize. In this study, a computational model that extracts melodic patterns from a given melodic surface is presented. F...