Parameter-Based Categorization for Musical Instrument Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Rory Lewis;Alicja Wieczorkowska

  • Affiliations:
  • University of North Carolina, 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223, USA;Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Koszykowa 86, 02-008 Warsaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • RSEISP '07 Proceedings of the international conference on Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In the continuing goal of codifying the classification of musical sounds and extracting rules for data mining, we present the following methodology of categorization, based on numerical parameters. The motivation for this paper is based upon the fallibility of Hornbostel and Sachs generic classification scheme, used in Music Information Retrieval for instruments. In eliminating the redundancy and discrepancies of Hornbostel and Sachs' classification of musical sounds we present a procedure that draws categorization from numerical attributes, describing both time domain and spectrum of sound. Rather than using classification based directly on Hornbostel and Sachs scheme, we rely on the empirical data describing the log attack, sustainability and harmonicity. We propose a categorization system based upon the empirical musical parameters and then incorporating the resultant structure for classification rules.