Peer-Reviewed Article November 15, 2006
Multiple Scale Music Segmentation Using Rhythm, Timbre, and Harmony
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Published in: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media • Egypt • 1110-8657
Abstract
The segmentation of music into intro-chorus-verse-outro, and similar segments, is a difficult topic. A method for performing automatic segmentation based on features related to rhythm, timbre, and harmony is presented, and compared, between the features and between the features and manual segmentation of a database of 48 songs. Standard information retrieval performance measures are used in the comparison, and it is shown that the timbre-related feature performs best.