The nature of melodic similarity is interrogated through a survey of the different means by
which the phenomenon has been studied, examination of methods for measuring melodic …

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation into the ways in which different
listeners perceive similarity relationships in different kinds of music. We first extend the …

Background The traditional compositional techniques of retrograde, inversion, retrograde
inversion, augmentation and diminution are well known to the student of music theory and …

Aims: The aims of the study are two-fold: First, existing measures need to be systematized
according to their mathematical structure and their possible application to different …

The dominant view in general psychology has been that prototypes play an important role in
our judgements of similarity and difference, and that salience is a main determinant of …

Music software applications often require similarity-finding measures. In this study, we
describe an empirically derived measure for determining similarity between two melodies …

Between them, Peter Kivy and Stephen Davies have developed an influential and
convincing account of what features of music cause listeners to hear it as expressive of …

Recognising a musical style implies managing a number of similarities. However, the nature
of such similarities and their organisation within a piece of music are radically different from …

This paper describes the systematization, testing and optimiziation of different approaches
for measuring similarities of melodies. First, a quick overview of our mathematical …

According to Western music theory, familiar melodies containing alterations which shift them
a long distance (harmonically) from the original should be considered perceptually …