Content Based Indexing of Music Objects Using Approximate Sequential Patterns

Abstract

The music objects are classified into Monophonic and Polyphonic. In Monophonic there is only one track which is the main melody that leads the song. In Polyphonic objects, there are several tracks that accompany the main melody. Each track is a sequence of notes played simultaneously with other tracks. But, the main melody captures the essence of the music and plays vital role in MIR. The MIR involves representation of main melody as a sequence of notes played, extraction of repeating patterns from it and matching of query sequence with frequent repeating sequential patterns constituting the music object. Repeating patterns are subsequences of notes played time and again in a main melody with possible variations in the notes to a tolerable extent. Similarly, the query sequence meant for retrieving a music object may not contain the repeating patterns of the main melody in its exact form. Hence, extraction of approximate patterns is essential for a MIR system. This paper proposes a novel method of finding approximate repeating patterns for the purpose of MIR. The effectiveness of methodology is tested and found satisfactory on real world data namely ‘Raga Surabhi’ an Indian Carnatic Music portal.