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PROMS: A Web-based Tool for Searching in Polyphonic Music

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PROMS: A Web-based Tool for Searching in Polyphonic Music
One major task of a digital music library (DML) is to provide techniques to locate a queried musical pattern in all pieces of music in the database containing that pattern. For a survey of several computational tasks related to this kind of data retrieval we refer to Crawford et al. [3]. Existing DMLs like MELDEX [1], Themefinder [4], and the Sonoda-Muraoka-System [7] work with melody databases relying on score-like information. Retrieval and matching are performed in a fault-tolerant way by string-based methods which mainly take into account pitch information. Generally, rhythm plays only a subordinate role. The music dictionary of Barlow and Morgenstern [2] shows that music retrieval based on pitch information only leads to results with typically too many false matches. (An example of such absurd matches is given in Selfridge-Field [6], p. 27.) We are convinced that both pitch and rhythm are crucial for recognizing melodies. In the more general context of polyphonic music, one is ev...
Michael Clausen, R. Engelbrecht, D. Meyer, J. Schm
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Type Conference
Year 2000
Where ISMIR
Authors Michael Clausen, R. Engelbrecht, D. Meyer, J. Schmitz
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