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Melodic Segmentation: Evaluating the Performance of Algorithms and Musical Experts

Melodic Segmentation: Evaluating the Performance of Algorithms and Musical Experts. Belinda Thom, Christian Spevak, Karin H öthker Institut für Logik, Komplexität und Deduktionssystene, Universität Karlsruhe. Outline. Segmentation Algorithms Grouper LBDM Other Approaches Segmentation Data

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Melodic Segmentation: Evaluating the Performance of Algorithms and Musical Experts

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  1. Melodic Segmentation: Evaluating the Performance of Algorithms and Musical Experts Belinda Thom, Christian Spevak, Karin Höthker Institut für Logik, Komplexität und Deduktionssystene, Universität Karlsruhe

  2. Outline • Segmentation Algorithms • Grouper • LBDM • Other Approaches • Segmentation Data • Essen Folk Song Collection • Musician Corpus • Experiments

  3. Algorithm - Grouper • Designed for monophonic music • Based on three rules: • Gap Rule • Phrase Length Rule • Metrical Parallelism Rule • Calculates a gap score for pairs of notes • Assigns a penalty to boundaries different from an ideal length • Combines local view with higher level metric structure • Can handle MIDI data

  4. Algorithm - LBDM • Assigns boundary strength to pairs of notes • Quantifies how discontinuous each note pair is • Based on two rules: • Change Rule • Proximity Rule • Boundary strength calculations provide insight • Can handle MIDI data

  5. Algorithm – Other Approaches • Memory-based approach • Consideration of harmonic structure • Rule-based system • Based on multi-layer neural network

  6. Segmentation Data Essen Folk Song Collection • European Folk Songs • EsAC format – recording meter and key, pitches and durations • Includes phrase boundaries Musician Corpus • 10 musical excerpts chosen • 19 musicians identified boundaries and phrase and sub-phrase levels

  7. Experiments How Ambiguous is the Segmentation Task? Level of ambiguity varies significantly based on music. How Flexible is an Algorithm? Grouper’s results agree more with the musicians segmentations. Yet, LBDM performs better in certain cases. How Stable is an Algorithm? Decrease in performance with unexpected changes, especially in sub-phrases. Grouper performs slightly better.

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