Modelling melodic variation and extracting melodic templates from <i>flamenco</i> singing performances

Kroher, Nadine; Díaz-Báñez, José Miguel

doi:10.1080/17459737.2019.1610194

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“…Significance: additionally, teachers should encourage pupils to engage in stage rehearsals and performances. By presenting their work to an audience and soliciting comments from that audience, students can clear the path for further progress of their work and establish favorable conditions for the continuing improvement of their overall quality [20,21].…”

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“…Find all the maximum points in DIS(t), set the threshold T 1 as the mean of DIS(t), and delete the maximum points smaller than the threshold T 1 . In addition, the duration of a quarter note in fast-paced music is about 0.5 s. Considering that the duration of an eighth note and a sixteenth note is 1/2 and 1/4 of that of a quarter note, the paragraph spacing is set to be no less than 100 ms; otherwise, the corresponding maximum point is removed, so that the remaining maximum point is the note split point [17,20].…”

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Design and Application of Vocal Music Teaching Management System

Sudu¹

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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This article proposes a virtual reality-based management system for vocal music instruction. Additionally, this article proposes an improved algorithm for automatic vocal main melody extraction. The pitch saliency function calculation method is improved based on the spectral characteristics of vocal music signals in order to reduce the computational complexity and time required to extract the vocal main melody. The model presented in this article has the potential to increase the recognition accuracy of the main melody model, decrease the rate of melody localization false alarms, and increase the overall accuracy of vocal main melody extraction. Additionally, this article incorporates the extraction algorithm into the management system, making it convenient for teachers to use during instruction.

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Design and Application of Vocal Music Teaching Management System

Sudu¹

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…The particular challenge of this task is that the parameter p corresponds to an amount of melodies, but does not refer to a specific set of melodies. A second approach to the same computational task was proposed in [19] where a progressive multiple sequence alignment procedure is used to construct a graph model holding information on the frequency of notes and note transitions across performances. This model allows the extraction a melodic sequence which approximates the melodic template and allows the computation of a metric for melodic stability.…”

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Maths, Computation and Flamenco: Overview and Challenges

Díaz-Báñez

Kroher²

2019

Mathematics and Computation in Music

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Flamenco is a rich performance-oriented art music genre from Southern Spain which attracts a growing community of aficionados around the globe. Due to its improvisational and expressive nature, its unique musical characteristics, and the fact that the genre is largely undocumented, flamenco poses a number of interesting mathematical and computational challenges. Most existing approaches in Musical Information Retrieval (MIR) were developed in the context of popular or classical music and do often not generalize well to non-Western music traditions, in particular when the underlying music theoretical assumptions do not hold for these genres. Over the recent decade, a number of computational problems related to the automatic analysis of flamenco music have been defined and several methods addressing a variety of musical aspects have been proposed. This paper provides an overview of the challenges which arise in the context of computational analysis of flamenco music and outlines an overview of existing approaches.

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“…In the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), research has focused on the extraction of audio features for the characterization of singing styles [5,6,7,8]. For example, vibrato features extracted from the audio signal were able to distinguish between singing styles of, amongst others, opera and jazz [5].…”

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Towards the characterization of singing styles in world music

Panteli

Bittner

Bello

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

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In this paper we focus on the characterization of singing styles in world music. We develop a set of contour features capturing pitch structure and melodic embellishments. Using these features we train a binary classifier to distinguish vocal from non-vocal contours and learn a dictionary of singing style elements. Each contour is mapped to the dictionary elements and each recording is summarized as the histogram of its contour mappings. We use K-means clustering on the recording representations as a proxy for singing style similarity. We observe clusters distinguished by characteristic uses of singing techniques such as vibrato and melisma. Recordings that are clustered together are often from neighbouring countries or exhibit aspects of language and cultural proximity. Studying singing particularities in this comparative manner can contribute to understanding the interaction and exchange between world music styles.

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Modelling melodic variation and extracting melodic templates from flamenco singing performances

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Design and Application of Vocal Music Teaching Management System

Design and Application of Vocal Music Teaching Management System

Maths, Computation and Flamenco: Overview and Challenges

Towards the characterization of singing styles in world music

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