We present a pilot study on ways to increase inter-and intra-rater agreement in quantification
of general similarity between pieces of music. By using a more controlled group of human …

Music similarity is known to be a multi-dimensional concept, depending among others on
rhythm similarity and timbre similarity. The present study aims to investigate whether such …

One of the central goals of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is the quantification of similarity
between or within pieces of music. These quantitative relations should mirror the human …

Melody is an important property for the perceptual description of Western musical pieces. In
the monophonic context, retrieval systems based on melodic similarity generally consider …

Michael Kassler mentioned the term “Musical Information Retrieval”(MIR) as early as 1966
[31]. He describes an assembler-like programming language called MIR which can be used …

Large-scale systems for automatic content-based music recommendation require efficient
computation of signal descriptors that are robust and relevant with regard to human …

Several authors have presented systems that estimate the audio similarity of two pieces of
music through the calculation of a distance metric, such as the Euclidean distance, between …

Content-based music retrieval requires to define a similarity measure between music
documents. In this paper, we propose a novel similarity measure between melodic content …

Two approaches to measuring the similarity between symbolically notated musical rhythms
are compared with each other and with human judgments of perceived similarity. The first is …

Understanding how we relate and compare pieces of music has been a topic of great
interest in musicology as well as for business applications, such as music recommender …