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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Evaluating a simple approach to music information retrieval: Conceiving melodic n-grams as text Abstract: Taking our cue from those printed thematic catalogues that have reduced the amount of music information represented we developed, and then evaluated, a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) system based upon the intervals found within the melodies of a collection of 9354 folksongs. We believe that there is enough information contained within an interval-only representation of monophonic melodies that effective retrieval of music information has been achieved. We extended the thematic catalogue model by affording access to musical expressions found anywhere within a melody. To achieve this extension we fragmented to the melodies into length-n subsections called n-grams. The length of these n-grams and the degree to which we precisely represent the intervals are variables analyzed in this thesis. |
MPACT Scores for J. Stephen DownieA = 2 Advisors and Advisees Graph |