David D. Wickland
ABSTRACT
Symbolic melodic similarity measures have been the subject of considerable investigation for their role in content-based querying, digital musicological analysis, and other data driven applications of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Despite these efforts, there has been little focus on the representations or encodings employed by symbolic similarity measures, and how each of these representations affects the analysis that follows it. Understanding how these similarity measures behave can improve the way we index and retrieve digital musical content, and offer insights into the underlying musical patterns.
This work explores how five melodic encodings, with varying information types and loss, behave using common string matching melodic similarity measures for exact and inexact matching, both globally and locally. The differences in the various symbolic melodic encodings are summarized to provide understanding and context as to when and in what applications these encodings could be applied.
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Index Terms
- Evaluating symbolic representations in melodic similarity
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