Composers of popular music weave lyrics, melody, and instrumentation together to create a consistent and compelling emotional scene. The relationships among these elements are critical to musical communication, and understanding the statistics behind these relationships can contribute to numerous problems in music information retrieval and creativity support. In this paper, we present the resul...

Abstract The melody feature mining of accordion scores is a relatively unpopular research topic. We discuss music's harmony configuration, chord and accompaniment configuration based on fractional differential equations. algorithm builds model for automatically generating pitch-melody meta-translation tables. At the same time, automation essential data acquisition realized. study found that whe...

The task of automatic melody harmonization aims to build a model that generates chord sequence as the harmonic accompaniment given multiple-bar sequence. In this paper, we present comparative study evaluating performance canonical approaches task, including template matching, hidden Markov model, genetic algorithm and deep learning. evaluation is conducted on dataset 9226 melody/chord pairs, co...

Vocal melody extraction is an important and challenging task in music information retrieval. One main difficulty that, most of the time, various instruments singing voices are mixed according to harmonic structure, making it hard identify fundamental frequency (F0) a voice. Therefore, reducing interference accompaniment beneficial pitch estimation In this paper, we first adopted high-resolution...

This paper investigates the problem of retrieving popular music by singing. In contrast to the retrieval of MIDI music, which is easy to acquire the main melody by the selection of the symbolic tracks, retrieving polyphonic objects in CD or MP3 format requires to extract the main melody directly from the accompanied singing signals, which proves difficult to handle well simply using the convent...

We tested whether the emergence of familiarity to a melody may trigger or co-occur with the processing of the concept(s) conveyed by emotions to, or semantic association with, the melody. With this objective, we recorded ERPs while participants were presented with highly familiar and less familiar melodies in a gating paradigm. The ERPs time locked to a tone of the melody called the "familiarit...

We investigated the neural correlates induced by prenatal exposure to melodies using brains' event-related potentials (ERPs). During the last trimester of pregnancy, the mothers in the learning group played the 'Twinkle twinkle little star'-melody 5 times per week. After birth and again at the age of 4 months, we played the infants a modified melody in which some of the notes were changed while...

A rule-based system for automatic melody harmonization is presented. It models the cognitive process a human arranger undergoes when confronted with the same task, namely: segmenting the melody into phrases, tagging melody notes with harmonic functions, establishing a palette of possible chords for each note, and finding the most agreeable voicing through these chords. The system is designed to...

In this paper I introduce a method, called PreFEst, for estimating the fundamental frequency (F0) of simultaneous sounds in monaural polyphonic audio signals. Most previous F0-estimation methods have had difficulty dealing with such complex audio signals because these methods were designed to deal with mixtures of only a few sounds. Without assuming the number of sound sources, PreFEst can esti...

An fMRI study of interleaved melody recognition was conducted to examine the neural basis of the bottom-up and top-down mechanisms involved in auditory stream segregation. Hemodynamic activity generated by a mixed sequence was recorded in eight listeners who were asked to recognize a target melody interleaved with distractor tones when the target was presented either before or after the composi...