MuseData: multipurpose representation
Beyond MIDI
Evaluation of a simple and effective music information retrieval method
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Tune Retrieval in the Multimedia Library
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Efficient Theme and Non-Trivial Repeating Pattern Discovering in Music Databases
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Discovery of retrograde and inverted themes for indexing musical scores
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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This paper describes a method of automatically creating a content-based index of musical scores. The goal is to capture the themes, or motifs, that appear in the music. The method was tested by building an index of 25 orchestral movements from the classical music literature. For every movement, the system captured the primary theme, or a variation of the primary theme. In addition, it captured 13 of 28 secondary themes. The resulting index was 14% of the size of the database. A further reduction of 2% is possible; however, this discards secondary themes. A listening experiment using five orchestral movements showed that people can reliably recognize secondary themes after listening to a piece of music-therefore, it may be necessary to retain secondary themes in a score index.