Score Following at Ircam
Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz · 2006
This paper describes the submission to the MIREX‘06 (Music Information Retrival Evaluation eXchange) first score following tasks. 1. Overview Score following is the key to an interaction with a written score/song based on the metaphor of a performer with an accompanist or band. For a historical review of score follower systems we refer the reader to [1, 2]. The Score Following Player submitted accepts monophonic audio and MIDI input from the performer. The audio following modules uses a core algorithm based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM). Figure 1 shows a block diagram overview of the follower algorithm. The problem of matching a performance with a score can