ISE599: Engineering Approaches to Music Perception and Cognition

Week 8 (5 Mar 2003): Melodic Segmentation






  1. Student summaries of the class.

  2. Hearing your designs on the Harmonic Network :

  3. Singing horses submitted by Andy

  4. Introduce your Project : proposals

  5. Segment this:



  6. Melodic Segmentation


    • "Melodic Segmentation: Evaluating the Performance of Algorithms and Musical Experts." by B. Thom, C. Spevak, and K. Hoethker (2002). In Proceedings of ICMPC 2002, p.7-14.

      ( Presentation by Arpi Mardirossian -- PPT )

    • "A Probabilistic Model for Melody Segmentation."
      by Ferrand, M., Nelson, P. & Wiggins, G. (2002).
      In additional proceedings (online) of the 2nd ICMAI.

      ( Presentation by Cindy Lee -- PPT )

    • "A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Melody Segmentation."
      by Melucci, M. & Orio, N. (2002). In Proceedings of the 3rd ISMIR.

      ( Presentation by Shivani Yardi -- PPT )

  7. Assigned Readings (handed out in class)

    • Notes on
      "Introduction to Rhythmic Structure."
      in A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
      by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff (1983). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp.12-35

    • Notes on
      "A (De)Composable Theory of Rhythm Perception."
      by Desain, Peter (1992). Music Perception 9, 439-54.



Posted 5 Mar 2003.

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