Computer-aided comparison of folk music from different nations is one of the newest
research areas. We were intrigued to have identified some important similarities between …

Melodic expectancy is a field of research that provides ways to understand the processes
and knowledge people use in structuring, interpreting, remembering and performing music …

Melodic contour, or the pattern of rises and falls in pitch, is a critical component of melodic
structure, and has an important impact on listeners' perceptions of, and memory for, music …

One of the possible objective and universal descriptions of most folk songs can be based on
structural musical characteristics such as contour, tone set, tonality, rhythm, meter, and form …

Various models of melodic similarity have been proposed and assessed in perceptual
experiments. Contour and pitch content variables haven been favoured although music …

Aims. We report on a comparative analysis of 16 folksong corpora representing different folk
music traditions in Eurasia. Our aim is to reveal some hidden musical relations between …

This article presents a distributed vector representation model for learning folksong motifs. A
skip-gram version of word2vec with negative sampling is used to represent high quality …

We describe a computational method derived from self organizing mapping and
multidimensional scaling algorithms for automatic classification and visual clustering of large …

Melody similarity in music is a perception of listeners based on cognitive method. Thus, the
algorithms should be based on perceptually oriented computational model. We have used …

The history of musical development in cultural groups across Europe is vast and varied. We
know, for instance, that groups of people use music as a way of both creating social …