This paper describe five different principled ways to embed songs into a Euclidean metric space. In particular, we learn embeddings so that the pairwise Euclidean distance between two songs reflects semantic dissimilarity. This allows distance-based analysis, such as for example straightforward nearest-neighbor classification, to detect and potentially suggest similar songs within a collection....

In this paper, we propose a new approach to query-by-humming, focusing on MP3 songs database. Since MP3 songs are much more difficult in melody representation than symbolic performance data, we adopt to extract feature descriptors from the vocal sounds part of the songs. Our approach is based on signal filtering, sub-band spectral processing, MDCT coefficients analysis and peak energy detection...

Assessment of vocal imitation requires a widely accepted way of describing and measuring any similarities between the song of a tutor and that of its pupil. Quantifying the similarity between two songs, however, can be difficult and fraught with subjective bias. We present a fully automated procedure that measures parametrically the similarity between songs. We tested its performance on a large...

Songs produced by migrating whales were recorded off the coast of Queensland, Australia, over six consecutive weeks in 2003. Forty-eight independent song sessions were analyzed using information theory techniques. The average length of the songs estimated by correlation analysis was approximately 100 units, with song sessions lasting from 300 to over 3100 units. Song entropy, a measure of struc...

This paper describes a music browsing assistance service, Songrium (http://songrium.jp), which increases user enjoyment when listening to songs and allows visualization and exploration of a “Web of Music”. We define a Web of Music in this paper to be a network of “web-native music”, which we define in turn to be music that is published, shared, and remixed (has derivative works created) entirel...

This paper describes an algorithm to measure the similarity of two multimedia objects, such as songs or movies, using users’ preferences. Much of the previous work on query-by-example (QBE) or music similarity uses detailed analysis of the object’s content. This is difficult and it is often impossible to capture how consumers react to the music. We argue that a large collection of user’s prefer...

Humpback whales have a continually evolving vocal sexual display, or "song," that appears to undergo both evolutionary and "revolutionary" change. All males within a population adhere to the current content and arrangement of the song. Populations within an ocean basin share similarities in their songs; this sharing is complex as multiple variations of the song (song types) may be present withi...

earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. apart from mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, taiwo (2007), adetunji (2009), and ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

aqu (大曲) was a genre of entertainment music popular in China from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty. While da (大) in Chinese means large or great, qu (曲) means a song, or more generally, a piece of music. As its name implies, a daqu was always a long, multisectional piece of music performed in a grand style uniting singing of poetic verses, instrumental playing, and dancing together, and the ...