Towards Music Structural Segmentation across Genres

This article faces the problem of how different audio features and segmentation methods work with different music genres. A new annotated corpus of Chinese traditional Jingju music is presented. We incorporate this dataset with two existing music datasets from the literature in an integrated retrieval system to evaluate existing features, structural hypotheses, and segmentation algorithms outside a Western bias. A harmonic-percussive source separation technique is introduced to the feature extraction process and brings significant improvement to the segmentation. Results show that different features capture the structural patterns of different music genres in different ways. Novelty- or homogeneity-based segmentation algorithms and timbre features can surpass the investigated alternatives for the structure analysis of Jingju due to their lack of harmonic repetition patterns. Findings indicate that the design of audio features and segmentation algorithms as well as the consideration of contextual information related to the music corpora should be accounted dependently in an effective segmentation system.

Authors

• Mi Tian TAL Education Group
• Mark B. Sandler

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