Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects

In this paper a number of issues relating to the application of string processing techniques on musical sequences are discussed. A brief survey of some musical string processing algorithms is given and some issues of melodic representation, abstraction, segmentation and categorisation are presented. This paper is not intended towards providing solutions to string processing problems but rather towards highlighting possible stumbling-block areas and raising awareness of primarily music-related particularities that can cause problems in matching applications.