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Questions tagged [musical-data-analysis]

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Random music note generation

I'm working on a little project, which is in early development stage right now. What I'm trying to figure out is how do I generate random music, especially notes. By googling I've only managed to find ransom note generator and lots of random music,…
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Feature engineering for sheet music

I have a large dataset of digitized music scores that I'd like to use as input to a network. Initially, I'm looking to train networks to identify key signatures, tempo, dynamics, etc. from the raw streams of notes. This is to establish a baseline…
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Measure of similarity between two distributions - with variable starting point (wrap-around)

I would like to compute the (dis)similarity between two distributions. The first represents tones sung by an experimental subject during a recording. There are different numbers of tones, each with different durations. This histogram shows how much…
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Regression with sequence as predictor

Background: Obviously, some musical compositions are better than others (measured by charts, saleability, last.fm site, ...). Each composition is, in fact, ordered sequence of discrete values (notes). Putting all together, it looks like supervised…
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What issues arise when you perform stats on scores attributed to concepts/objects rather than people? (2-way independent ANOVA example)

• Pianos have 5 different types of black note, and 7 different types of white note, on them. • A famous music psychology paper examined the effects of note colour (black vs white) and instrument (piano vs keyboard vs synthesised sound - N.B.,…
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Measuring "regularity" of musical timing

Apologies if the term regularity is improper, I cannot find what the actual term I am looking for is. I'm looking for a method for calculating how "regular" rhythms are for musical notes. Although, more generally, I'm looking for a method for…
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How to correlate categorical personality and music genre preference scores?

I'm currently a third year Biology student and I've annoyingly screwed myself over by not following the golden rule of stats, always know how to analyze your data prior to conducting the experiment. I'm conducting an investigation into whether or…
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What is a good probability model of the distribution of frequencies as represented by western sheet music?

I'm attempting to answer a general question about a method of musical comparision which is generalizable beyond western music but uses western music scales as a nearly sufficient subspace for dimensional reduction. What is a good probability model…
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Music classification into genres

I need to classify music (songs) into genres (rock, french house, trash metal, etc). My idea was to extract features from the songs (bmp, zero crossing, etc) and then apply known classification algorithms. I want to start with something simple and…
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A new method for processing music scores?

I have developed a method and python script: https://github.com/githubuser1983/algorithmic_python_music which allows the user to input a midi file and then chose a few numbers as parameters, and the user of the script will get a similar sounding yet…
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Training a Neural Network on Music

I'm very picky about the music I like. I can't say I like a genre in particular because my tastes in music boil down to how a specific song sounds. For a while now, I've had a vision of creating a neural network that can tell me what songs I "would"…
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How does one trade off quantity of labels for accuracy of labels

I'm working on the problem of automatically labeling groupings in music. In this domain, there's label at each time step indicating whether a group starts at this time step. However, labels are subjective, and not everyone agrees about the…
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Exploring similarity embeddings

I'm trying to find embedding for audio which explains similarities between songs, and have extracted relevant, MFCC, features. From this, I will apply different techniques to find different embedding. My question is as follows: How can one…
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How many annotators are required for creation of a reliable ground truth for a music emotion recognition task?

I am doing a research about music emotion recognition. In my research, I use a two-dimensional (Valence and Arousal) space to represent the emotion of a song. To validate my approach, I have to create a ground truth of music emotion. Most of…
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How to begin studying for Musical Information Retrieval

I am an economist by training trying out my hands lately in Machine Learning applications. I recently got interested in music information retrieval theory. With no prior experience in learning any instrument I am planning to proceed as…
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