Melodic similarity among folk songs: An annotation study on similarity-based categorization in music
Melodic similarity among folk songs: An annotation study on similarity-based categorization in music
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民歌旋律相似性：基于相似性的音乐分类注释研究
DOI：
10.1177/1029864912448329
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Peter van Kranenburg
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作者：
A. Volk;Peter van Kranenburg
在这篇文章中，我们确定了不同的音乐功能的作用，为人类分类的民歌调家庭在一个大的收集荷兰民歌。通过一项注释研究，我们探讨了音乐特征，感知相似性和人类在音乐分类之间的关系。本文介绍了一种新开发的民歌旋律标注方法，并利用该方法建立了26个曲调家族360首民歌旋律的标注数据集。该数据集提供了关于音乐特征对基于评估旋律之间相似性的分类过程的贡献的有价值的信息。的注释数据集的分析表明，单一的音乐特征评估相似性的重要性不同的曲调家族之间和内部。在一般情况下，短的特征图案的复发是最相关的感知属于同一曲调家族的歌曲之间的相似性。通常用于描述旋律的全局旋律特征（例如旋律轮廓）所起的作用较小。这些标注数据集是进一步研究旋律相似性的宝贵资源，可以作为丰富的“地面实况”来测试音乐信息检索中的各种检索算法。我们的注释研究证实，评估相似性是至关重要的人类分类过程中，这已被质疑在认知科学的背景下，基于规则的方法来分类。
In this article we determine the role of different musical features for the human categorization of folk songs into tune families in a large collection of Dutch folk songs. Through an annotation study we investigate the relation between musical features, perceived similarity and human categorization in music. We introduce a newly developed annotation method which is used to create an annotation data set for 360 folk song melodies in 26 tune families. This dataset delivers valuable information on the contribution of musical features to the process of categorization which is based on assessing the similarity between melodies. The analysis of the annotation data set reveals that the importance of single musical features for assessing similarity varies both between and within tune families. In general, the recurrence of short characteristic motifs is most relevant for the perception of similarity between songs belonging to the same tune family. Global melodic features often used for the description of melodies (such as melodic contour) play a less important role. The annotation data set is a valuable resource for further research on melodic similarity and can be used as enriched “ground truth” to test various kinds of retrieval algorithms in Music Information Retrieval. Our annotation study exemplifies that assessing similarity is crucial for human categorization processes, which has been questioned within Cognitive Science in the context of rule-based approaches to categorization.