Detecting the occurrences of rāgs’ characteristic melodic phrases from polyphonic audio recordings is a fundamental task for the analysis and retrieval of Indian art music. We propose an abstraction process and a complexity weighting scheme which improve melodic similarity by exploiting specific melodic characteristics in this music. In addition, we propose a tetrachord normalization to handle ...

Byzantine Chant performance practice is computationally compared to the Chrysanthine theory of the eight Byzantine Tones (octoechos). Intonation, steps, and prominence of scale degrees are quantified, based on pitch class profiles. The novel procedure introduced here comprises the following analysis steps: 1) The pitch trajectory is extracted and post processed with music-specific filters. 2) P...

Symbolic music datasets are important for information retrieval and musical analysis. However, there is a lack of large-scale symbolic classical piano music. In this article, we describe the creation GiantMIDI-Piano (GP) dataset containing 38,700,838 transcribed notes 10,855 unique solo works composed by 2,786 composers. We extract names composers from International Music Score Library Project ...

A tetrahedral graph models voice leading among the 29 T/I-type tetrachord classes. Transpositional combination plays a crucial role in the structure of the tetrahedron. A dipyramid, fusing two tetrahedra, models similar relations among the 43 T-type |4|-classes. The two graphs generalize to n-dimensional simplexes for relations among |n + 1|-classes, in modulo 12 and in other universes of even ...

When we speak of traditional Japanese music, we are refering to a variety of music •E•E•Efrom artistic music to folkloric music. Despite the variety, there are certain characteristics running through them in terms of the Japanese sensibility toward music. It is this musical sense of the Japanese that will provide an important base for the new Japanese music to develop in the future. A sense of ...

ambits of tones (as one of the most important elements of mode structure) in old iranian music have multiple kinds and definitions. middle eastern musicologists have always tried to explain and devise tones ambits, because ambits of tones and structure of mode are irrefrangible. generally purpose of division of ambits to their components is explanation of melodic modules and their combination. ...

RESUMENEn este artículo se revisa la información acerca de supuesta belleza del género enharmónico tal y como habla él Aristóxeno en su tratado musical, el más antiguo conservado, sin perder vista hecho que con toda probabilidad ya había desaparecido cuando escribió sus Elementa harmonica siglo iv a. C. En cualquier caso, no conserva fase helenística ni período romano, fue tempranamente sustitu...