Tune Retrieval in the Multimedia Library

Authors:
Rodger J. McNab;Lloyd A. Smith;Ian H. Witten;Clare L. Henderson
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. rjmcnab@waikato.ac.nz;Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. las@waikato.ac.nz;Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. ihw@waikato.ac.nz;School of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. clhend@waikato.ac.nz
Venue:
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Year:
2000

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Musical scores are traditionally retrieved by title, composer orsubject classification. Just as multimedia computer systems increasethe range of opportunities available for presenting musicalinformation, so they also offer new ways of posing musically-orientedqueries. This paper shows how scores can be retrieved from a databaseon the basis of a few notes sung or hummed into a microphone. Thedesign of such a facility raises several interesting issuespertaining to music retrieval. We first describe an interface thattranscribes acoustic input into standard music notation. We thenanalyze string matching requirements for ranked retrieval of musicand present the results of an experiment which tests how accuratelypeople sing well known melodies. The performance of several stringmatching criteria are analyzed using two folk song databases.Finally, we describe a prototype system which has been developed forretrieval of tunes from acoustic input and evaluate its performance.