Persian music has had a profound effect on various Eastern musical cultures, and also influenced Southern European and Northern African music. The Santur, a hammered dulcimer, is ...
The paper presents a grounded theory analysis of 395 user responses to the survey question, “What is the worst song ever?” Important factors uncovered include: lyric quality, ...
Sally Jo Cunningham, J. Stephen Downie, David Bain...
We present a system for musical genre classification based on audio features extracted from signals which correspond to distinct musical instrument sources. For the separation of...
Aristomenis S. Lampropoulos, Paraskevi S. Lampropo...
This survey paper provides an overview of content-based music information retrieval systems, both for audio and for symbolic music notation. Matching algorithms and indexing metho...
Melodies provide an important conceptual summarization of polyphonic audio. The extraction of melodic content has practical applications ranging from content-based audio retrieval...