Melodic Similarity : concepts, procedures, and applications
Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor Selfridge-Field · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1998
Part 1 Concepts and procedures: conceptual and representational issues in melodic comparison - concepts of melody, searchable representations of pitch, searchable representations of duration and accent, strategies for multi-dimensional data comparison, prototypes, reductions and similarity searches, conclusions, Eleanor Selfridge-Field a geometrical algorithm for melodic difference - general properties of a difference algorithm, implementation, Donncha O. Maidin string-matching techniques for musical similarity and melodic recognition - string-matching problems in musical analysis, exact-match algorithms, inexact-match algorithms, musical examples, Tim Crawford et al sequence-based melodic comparison - a dynamic-programming approach - previous research in the field, sequence-comparison using dynamic programming, algorithms for melodic comparison, additional operations for comparing music, effect of music representation and match parameters, a sample application -retrieving tunes from folksong databases, conclusion, Lloyd A. Smith et al strategies for sorting musical incipits - potentials and practicalities, the Frankfurt experience, the Harvard experience, John Howard signatures and earmarks - computer recognition of patterns in music - signatures, earmarks, David Cope. Part 2 Tools and applications: a multi-scale neural-network model for learning and reproducing chorale variations -background, task description, a multi-scale neural network model, motivic classification and recognition, network structure, intervallic representation, system performance, conclusions, Dominik Hornel melodic pattern-detection using musearch in Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin - the musearch programme, musical examples, conclusions, Nigel Netheim rhythmic elements of melodic process in Nagauta Shamisen music - Shamisen music of the Edo era, towards a catalogue of melodic types, classification of rhythmic patterns, observations on Nagauta Shamisen rhythmic patterns and features of melodic process, summary of results, Masato Yako. Part 3 Human melodic judgements: concepts of melodic similarity in music-copyright infringement suits - fundamentals, demonstrating melodic similarity, some case decisions, conclusion, Charles Cronin judgements of human and machine authorship in real and artificial folksongs - correlations of judgement with musical features, correlations of judgement with social factors, Ewa Dahlig and Helmut Schaffrath. Part 4 Online tools for melodic searching: MELDEX - a web-based melodic index search - databases, software, search algorithm, the New Zealand digital library project, David Bainbridge themefinder - a web-based melodic search tool - using themefinder, list of features, technical background, future plans, Andreas Kornstadt.