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Using Musical Structure to Enhance Automatic Chord Transcription
Chord extraction from audio is a well-established music computing task, and many valid approaches have been presented in recent years that use different chord templates, smoothing techniques and musical context models. The present work shows that additional exploitation of the repetitive structure of songs can enhance chord extraction, by combining chroma… (More)
Approximate Note Transcription for the Improved Identification of Difficult Chords
The automatic detection and transcription of musical chords from audio is an established music computing task. The choice of chord profiles and higher-level time-series modelling have received a lot of attention, resulting in methods with an overall performance of more than 70% in the MIREX Chord Detection task 2009. Research on the front end of chord… (More)
Timbre and Melody Features for the Recognition of Vocal Activity and Instrumental Solos in Polyphonic Music
We propose the task of detecting instrumental solos in poly-phonic music recordings, and the usage of a set of four audio features for vocal and instrumental activity detection. Three of the features are based on the prior extraction of the predominant melody line, and have not been used in the context of vocal/instrumental activity detection. Using a… (More)
Computer-aided Melody Note Transcription Using the Tony Software: Accuracy and Efficiency
We present Tony, a software tool for the interactive annotation of melodies from monophonic audio recordings, and evaluate its usability and the accuracy of its note extraction method. The scientific study of acoustic performances of melodies, whether sung or played, requires the accurate transcription of notes and pitches. To achieve the desired… (More)
Simultaneous Estimation of Chords and Musical Context From Audio
Chord labels provide a concise description of musical harmony. In pop and jazz music, a sequence of chord labels is often the only written record of a song, and forms the basis of so-called lead sheets. We devise a fully automatic method to simultaneously estimate from an audio waveform the chord sequence including bass notes, the metric positions of… (More)
MedleyDB: A Multitrack Dataset for Annotation-Intensive MIR Research
We introduce MedleyDB: a dataset of annotated, royalty-free multitrack recordings. The dataset was primarily developed to support research on melody extraction, addressing important shortcomings of existing collections. For each song we provide melody f 0 annotations as well as instrument activations for evaluating automatic instrument recognition. The… (More)
PYIN: A fundamental frequency estimator using probabilistic threshold distributions
We propose the Probabilistic YIN (PYIN) algorithm, a modification of the well-known YIN algorithm for fundamental frequency (F0) estimation. Conventional YIN is a simple yet effective method for frame-wise monophonic F0 estimation and remains one of the most popular methods in this domain. In order to eliminate short-term errors, outputs of frequency… (More)
Discovering Chord Idioms Through Beatles and Real Book Songs
Modern collections of symbolic and audio music content provide unprecedented possibilities for musicological research , but traditional qualitative evaluation methods cannot realistically cope with such amounts of data. We are interested in harmonic analysis and propose key-independent chord idioms derived from a bottom-up analysis of musical data as a new… (More)
Evolution of music by public choice.
Music evolves as composers, performers, and consumers favor some musical variants over others. To investigate the role of consumer selection, we constructed a Darwinian music engine consisting of a population of short audio loops that sexually reproduce and mutate. This population evolved for 2,513 generations under the selective influence of 6,931… (More)