4 accepted papers
In this paper, we consider a cross-modal retrieval scenario of Western classical music. Given a short monophonic musical theme in symbolic notation as query, the objective is to find relevant audio recordings in a database. A major challenge of this retrieval task is the possible difference in the d…
Retrieving short monophonic queries in music recordings is a challenging research problem in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In jazz music, given a solo transcription, one retrieval task is to find the corresponding (potentially polyphonic) recording in a music collection. Many conventional syste…
In 1948, Barlow and Morgenstern released a collection of about 10,000 themes of well-known instrumental pieces from the corpus of Western Classical music [1]. These monophonic themes (usually four bars long) are often the most memorable parts of a piece of music. In this paper, we report on a system…
In the year 1948, Barlow and Morgenstern published the book “A Dictionary of Musical Themes”, which contains 9803 important musical themes from the Western classical music literature. In this paper, we deal with the problem of automatically matching these themes to other digitally available sources.…