Musical information retrieval using melodic surface

Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio
1999 Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries - DL '99  
The automatic best-match and content-based retrieval of musical documents against musical queries is addressed in this paper. By "musical documents" we mean scores or performances, while musical queries are supposed to be inserted by final users using a musical interface (GUI or MIDI keyboard). Musical documents lack of separators necessary to detect "lexical units" like text words. Moreover there are many variants of a musical phrase between different works. The paper presents a technique to
more » ... tomatically detect musical phrases to be used as content descriptors, and confiate musical phrase variants by extracting a common stem. An experimental study reports on the results of indexing and retrieval tests using the vector-space model. The technique can complement catalogue-based access whenever the user is unable to use fixed values, or he would find performances or scores being "similar" in content to known ones.
doi:10.1145/313238.313293 dblp:conf/dl/MelucciO99 fatcat:dfcanltdhvhddaj7xdesfegmu4