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Towards a Computational Model of Melody Identification in Polyphonic Music

@inproceedings{Madsen2007TowardsAC,
  title={Towards a Computational Model of Melody Identification in Polyphonic Music},
  author={S{\o}ren Tjagvad Madsen and Gerhard Widmer},
  booktitle={IJCAI},
  year={2007}
}
This paper presents first steps towards a simple, robust computational model of automatic melody identification. Based on results from music psychology that indicate a relationship between melodic complexity and a listener's attention, we postulate a relationship between musical complexity and the probability of a musical line to be perceived as the melody. We introduce a simple measure of melodic complexity, present an algorithm for predicting the most likely melody note at any point in a… 
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