THE INFLUENCE OF PITCH ON MELODIC SEGMENTATION

1
THE INFLUENCE OF PITCH ON MELODIC SEGMENTATION

• ISMIR 2004
• Tillman Weyde
• University of Osnabruck
• Research Department of Music and Media Technology

2
Outline

• Music segmentation
• The influence of music features on music
  segmentation
• Discussion

3
Music segmentation

• Gestalt rules
• Pitch
• Time
• Dynamics
• Melodic movement

4
The influence of music features on music
segmentation

• Four factors
• Inter-onset-intervals (IOIs)
• Loudness accents
• Pitch intervals
• Changes in pitch direction
• Six pairs

5
Ioi/Velocity
6
Ioi/Pitch
7
Ioi/Direction
8
Pitch/Direction
9
Pitch/Velocity
10
Direction/Velocity
11
Discussion

• Velocity IOIs
• pitch change of pitch ?
• Other factors
• Repetitions harmonic progression
• synthetic data
• intervals is too small?