Musical-scale characteristics for traditional Thai music genre classification

Abstract

The music genre classification method includes two stages: feature extraction and classifier design. In this paper, we present how the characteristic of traditional Thai music affects the accuracy of music genre classification. With regards to our experiments, we find that each feature has the capability to be classified differently. The experiments are conducted on 180 excerpt of traditional Thai music. The experimental results of comparisons between 4 models of Diatonic scale and Chromatic scales involve audio features of traditional Thai music instruments. The results include a classification accuracy of traditional Thai music. The chromatic scale can be classified as 90% and the mixolydian mode is the most accurate is 85.8%.