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Convention Paper

Automatic Retrieval of Musical Rhythmic Patterns

Authors: Kostek, Bozena; Wojcik, Jaroslaw

AES Convention 119 · Paper 6567 · October 2005

Abstract

Even though the research within Music Information Retrieval domain is well-advanced, searching for music is still under development. Thanks to melody search methods applied in 'query by humming' systems, users can retrieve melodies on the basis of an audio input. However, the research on rhythm is not advanced to such an extent yet. This paper addresses automatic retrieval of rhythmic patterns based on symbolic representation of music employing repeating rhythmic and melodic patterns. In the experiments the importance of melorhythmic representation of a musical piece is verified and compared to the sound duration-based hypothesis ranking method. Since most of musical files to be found in the Internet are polyphonic the lowest or the highest sounds of the chords are also taken into consideration.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 119
AES Convention
119
Paper number
6567
Publication date
October 6, 2005
Session subject
Miscellaneous Audio Topics
Affiliation
Gdansk University of Technology; Wroclaw University of Technology (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper