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Theoretical andTheoretical and Methodological Fundaments of Methodological Fundaments of

Music AnnotationMusic AnnotationFrederik.Styns@ugent.be

Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM)Dept. Of Musicology

University Ghent, Belgium

Promotor: Prof. Dr. Marc Leman

Presentation overviewPresentation overview

1. Problem specification1. Problem specification

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

3. Research perspectives3. Research perspectives

1. Problem specification1. Problem specification

• Strong need for annotated music databases, in order to train and develop intelligent MIR systems

(Lesaffre, 2003)

1. Problem specification1. Problem specification

• Strong need for annotated music databases, in order to train and develop intelligent MIR systems

No general methodological framework for music annotation

No general theoretical framework for music annotation

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Theoretical research

• Methodological research

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Theoretical research

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Theoretical research

Music annotation = detailed description, via specific methods and techniques, of musical content

Musical content = those parameters & concepts which make people evaluate certain informationstreams as musical entities

?

(Lesaffre, et al., 2003)

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Theoretical research

from an ecological point of view: music is not reducable to low level concepts

constant interaction between different abstraction levels

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

Manual low level music annotation for testing and training the MAMI-Melodytranscriber

High level music annotation of polyphonic music, through melody imitation

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

Manual low level music annotation for testing and training the MAMI-Melodytranscriber

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

Manual low level music annotation for testing and training the MAMI-Melodytranscriber

Annotationtool for Qbv:

- Automatic segmentation

- Automatic pitchannotation

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

Manual low level music annotation for testing and training the MAMI-Melodytranscriber

Annotation method: Praat

Annotated queries: vocal queries + instrumental queries

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

Manual low level music annotation for testing and training the MAMI-Melodytranscriber

Auditive evaluation (Sonar)

Statistical evaluation

equal insertion deletionwhistling 92.9% 3.1% 4.0%guitar 77.8% 20.2% 2.0%gamba 79.3% 6.3% 14.4%violin 71.0% 24.6% 4.3%viola 85.1% 7.0% 7.9%voice 94.4% 5.6%flute 73.1% 15.2% 11.7%altoflute 73.5% 17.6% 8.8%sax 60.9% 39.1%

Ranking test

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2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

Manual low level music annotation for testing and training the MAMI-Melodytranscriber

Improve performance

Total

15.39%

Results for instrumental queries

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

High level annotation of polyphonic music, through melody imitation

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

High level annotation of polyphonic music, through melody imitation

How to extract different melodylines from polyphonic music?

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

High level annotation of polyphonic music, through melody imitation

8 trained singers were asked to imitate main melodylines and bass lines (and other melodylines they considered important) from 10 popular songs

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

High level annotation of polyphonic music, through melody imitation

- Good imitations of main melodylines

- Good imitations of other relevant melodylines, but no consistency in choosing other

relevant melodies

- Bad imitations of bass lines

2. Masters’ thesis research2. Masters’ thesis research

• Methodological research

High level annotation of polyphonic music, through melody imitation

melody imitations serving as reference material for training MIR systems?

3. Research perspectives3. Research perspectives

• What is musical content?

• How to handle this musical content in a MIR context?

• How to annotate musical audio and what are possible underlying theories?

developing annotated music databases