A graph theoretic approach to melodic similarity

  • Authors:
  • Goffredo Haus;Alberto Pinto

  • Affiliations:
  • LIM – Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale, DICO – Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano;LIM – Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale, DICO – Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano

  • Venue:
  • CMMR'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Common music information retrieval methods are based upon editing distances, reductionism or functional analysis tecniques. We adopt an approach which looks into a thematic fragment (TF) globally. This leads to associate a musical graph to each TF which preserves its more abstract content. Then, necessary conditions for graph inclusion are introduced and we give a similarity function between graphs which allows to assign different weights to the elements belonging to different graph powers. The advantage is that graphs catch more musical transformations than other methods, like permutations of subfragments.