Similarity measures are indispensable in music information retrieval. In recent years, various
proposals have been made for measuring melodic similarity in symbolically encoded scores …

To analyze specific properties of music similarity measures that the commonly used genre
classification evaluation procedure does not reveal, we introduce a MIDI based test …

The music similarity question is yet to be defined. From an objective signal point of view, at
least three classes of similarities may be considered: pitch, rhythm, and timbre. Within each …

This paper describes an empirical approach to evaluating similarity measures for the
comparision of two note sequences or melodies. In the first sections the experimental …

In this work, a novel representation system for symbolic music is described. The proposed
representation system is graph-based and could theoretically represent music both from a …

The recognition of melodic structure depends on both the segmentation into structural units,
the melodic motifs, and relations of motifs which are mainly determined by similarity. Existing …

In this paper we investigate the role of rhythmic similarity as part of melodic similarity in the
context of Folksong research. We define a rhythmic similarity measure based on Inner Metric …

Symbolic melodic similarity aims to evaluate the degree of likeness of two or more
sequences of notes. In this work, we propose the use of fuzzy c-means clustering as a tool …

Computersaremachines. Intelligenceisahumancharacteristic, and thoughitisoftentakentobethecharacteristicw…
fromanimals, computersrarelyapproachtheintelligenceev…. Oneofthecharacteristicsofmachinesisthatthe …

ABSTRACT Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) is in demand of robust, automatically
extracted music descriptors. We introduce a timbral similarity measures for comparing music …