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Convention Paper

Circular Pitch Space Based Musical Tonality Analysis

Authors: Arndt, Daniel; Brandenburg, Karlheinz; Gatzsche, Gabriel; Mehnert, Markus

AES Convention 124 · Paper 7391 · May 2008

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to give an overview of existing circular pitch spaces, its special properties and application for semantic audio analysis. Beside this the symmetry model is proposed as a framework to describe
the inter-model relationships between different circular pitch spaces. Similar to color spaces in vision musical pitch spaces organize pitches in a way that semantic/cognitive/theoretical/physical relationships between tones become geometrically apparent. Within the last years pitch spaces were mainly subject of music theory. But they
become more and more interesting for semantic analysis of musical audio signals. Pitch spaces can be applied tokey and chord recognition, similarity calculation of musical pieces, genre estimation, tension analysis or harmonic
change detection.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 124
AES Convention
124
Paper number
7391
Publication date
May 6, 2008
Session subject
Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
Affiliation
Fraunhofer IDMT Ilmenau;TU Ilmenau (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper