Mining transposed motifs in music

  • Authors:
  • Aída Jiménez;Miguel Molina-Solana;Fernando Berzal;Waldo Fajardo

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, University of Granada, Granada, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The discovery of frequent musical patterns (motifs) is a relevant problem in musicology. This paper introduces an unsupervised algorithm to address this problem in symbolically-represented musical melodies. Our algorithm is able to identify transposed patterns including exact matchings, i.e., null transpositions. We have tested our algorithm on a corpus of songs and the results suggest that our approach is promising, specially when dealing with songs that include non-exact repetitions.