The present study investigates the mechanisms involved in the perception of melodic
similarity in the context of a cappella flamenco singing performances. Flamenco songs …

This paper intends to research on the link between musical similarity and style and sub-style
(variant) classification in the context of flamenco a cappella singing styles. Given the …

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

This paper describes both a newly developed method for manual annotation for aspects of
melodic similarity and its use for evaluating melody features concerning their contribution to …

Melodic similarity is a central concept in many sub-disciplines of musicology, as well as for
many computer based applications that deal with the classifications and retrieval of melodic …

This investigation aims at finding an optimal way of measuring the similarity of melodies. The
applicability for an automated analysis and classification was tested on a folk song collection …

We propose a mid-level melody-based representation that incorporates melodic, rhythmic
and structural aspects of a music signal and is useful for calculating audio similarity …

In recent years the interest in melodic similarity has mushroomed mainly due to the
increased importance of music information retrieval (MIR). A great number of similarity …

Similarity is an important concept in music cognition research since the similarity between
(parts of) musical pieces determines perception of stylistic categories and structural …

In this article we show that a subgroup of music experts has a reliable and consistent notion
of melodic similarity, and that this notion can be measured with satisfactory precision. Our …