Generic Music Identification by Hierarchic Modeling of Human Perception

Abstract

To date, there are no systems that can identify music, neither audio nor midi, in a generic way. That is, for the countless possible occurrences of a certain song, it should be possible to associate them with only one generic description of that song. In this paper we describe a conceptual design for generic music identification. Therefore, we propose a hierarchy of elementary music descriptions and introduce the concept of generic perceptual musical patterns. To prove the designed model, it is implemented for symbolic music files.