2009 Discussion Forum 4B. Musical Similarity
Recent Submissions
-
Court decisions on music plagiarism and the predictive value of similarity algorithms
(2009)Tune plagiarism in pop music is a common and often feverishly debated phenomenon which surely has to do with the vast amounts of money that individual melodies are able to generate in today s pop music business. The ... -
A content-based music retrieval engine: JMIR-Mozart
(2009)The rapid increase of storage capacity has brought along large-scale multimedia databases. To access such databases, content-based retrieval methods are needed in order to avoid the burden of handcraft involved in building ... -
Some vantage indexing approaches for rhythmic and melodic search
(2009)In this paper, we discuss several improvements and approaches to musical content-based search that utilize the vantage indexing technique. We show how one can build an optimum vantage index for a variant of the Earth Mover ... -
Using the same to make different. Analysis of a traditional musical repertoire based on centonisation
(2009)This paper deals with music based on Centonisation, a compositional technique broadly used during the Middle Age, still at work in many musical traditions around the world. Based on a limited stock of melodic patterns, it ... -
Primary versus secondary musical parameters and the classification of melodic motives
(2009)Music theorists often maintain that motivic categorization in music is determined by primary musical parameters music-specific aspects of pitch and temporal structure, like pitch intervals or metric hierarchies, serving ... -
A different kind of similarity: the recognition of style in listening
(2009)Recognising a musical style implies managing a number of similarities. However, the nature of such similarities and their organisation within a piece of music are radically different from those discussed in Forum A4, where ... -
Similarity perception as a cognitive tool for musical sense-making: deictic and ecological claims
(2009)This is a programmatic paper. It elaborates on the concept of similarity as a cognitive tool for sense-making in music. Taking as a starting point the definition of similarity as a relational concept, it tries to provide ... -
Similarity relations between groups of notes: Music-theoretical and music-psychological perspectives
(2009)The starting point of this article is Irène Deliège s essay on the similarity relationships that, it is claimed, lie at the heart of creating and cognising musical structure (2007): in particular (though not exclusively) ... -
Taxonomic categorisation of motivic patterns
(2009)The issue of pattern description in computational models for motivic analysis is closely related to the cognitive debate on categorisation, in which are traditionally opposed well-defined and ill-defined categorisations. ... -
How similar is similar?
(2009)In the first part of the paper a theoretical discussion is presented regarding the fundamental concept of similarity and its relation to cue abstraction and categorisation. It is maintained that similarity is by definition ...
RSS 1.0