Title | Using the Implication/Realization Model for Measuring Melodic Similarity |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2004 |
Authors | Grachten M, Arcos JLluis |
Editor | Press IOS |
Conference Name | 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2004. |
Publisher | Lopez de Mantaras, R. and Saitta, L. |
Pagination | 1023-1024 |
Abstract | The concept of melodic similarity has become increasingly relevant in the light of music retrieval and music content processing systems. We propose a new way of measuring melodic similarity, based on analyses of the melody according to the Implication/ Realization (I/R) model for melodic structure and cognition. The similarity is assessed as the edit-distance between these I/R analyses. We present some experiments and results, comparing this approach to edit-distance based measures on other melodic representations. We argue that the I/R representation combines some advantages of the other measures, and is a good compromise between concrete and abstract levels of melody representation. |