Simultaneous Estimation of Chords and Musical Context from Audio
Abstract. Chord labels provide a concise description of musical harmony. In pop and jazz music, a sequence of chord labels is often the only written record of a song, and forms the basis of so-called...
View ArticleTempEst: Harpsichord Temperament Estimation in a Semantic-Web Environment
Abstract. Issues concerning tuning and temperament bear relevance to music research in areas such as historical musicology, performance and recording studies, and music perception. We have recently...
View ArticleImproving Music Genre Classification Using Automatically Induced Harmony Rules
Abstract. We present a new genre classiï¬cation framework using both low-level signal-based features and high-level harmony features. A state of-the-art statistical genre classiï¬er based on timbral...
View ArticleEstimation of Harpsichord Inharmonicity and Temperament from Musical Recordings
Abstract: Recent advances in music signal processing and the speed of desktop computers have facilitated the automation of many aspects of the analysis of music recordings. For example, the extraction...
View ArticleIntegrating Additional Chord Information into HMM-Based Lyrics-to-Audio...
On IEEE Xplore. Abstract. Aligning lyrics to audio has a wide range of applications such as the automatic generation of karaoke scores, song-browsing by lyrics, and the generation of audio thumbnails....
View ArticleEvolution of Music by Public Choice
This is the publication entry for the paper, if you want the story around it, click here. Abstract: Music evolves as composers, performers, and consumers favor some musical variants over others. To...
View ArticleIntonation in Unaccompanied Singing: Accuracy, Drift and a Model of Reference...
The preprint of our singing intonation paper is now available! Enjoy! [Edit: now published here] Abstract: This paper presents a study on intonation and intonation drift in unaccompanied singing and...
View ArticleSequential Complexity as a Descriptor for Musical Similarity
We propose string compressibility as a descriptor of temporal structure in audio, for the purpose of determining musical similarity. Our descriptors are based on computing track-wise compression rates...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Popular Music: USA 1960–2010
[Paper page at Royal Society Open Science] In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the...
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