Automatic generation of lead sheets from polyphonic music signals

Jan Weil; Thomas Sikora; J. L. Durrieu; Gaël Richard

Automatic generation of lead sheets from polyphonic music signals

Jan Weil, Thomas Sikora, J. L. Durrieu, Gaël Richard

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Abstract

A lead sheet is a type of music notation which summarizes the content of a song. The usual elements that are reproduced are the melody, chords, tempo, time signature, style and the lyrics, if any. In this paper we propose a system that aims at transcribing both the melody and the associated chords in a beat-synchronous framework. A beat tracker identifies the pulse positions and thus defines a beat grid on which the chord sequence and the melody notes are mapped. The harmonic changes are used to estimate the time signature and the down beats as well as the key of the piece. The different modules perform very well on each of the different tasks, and the lead sheets that were rendered show the potential of the approaches adopted in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009
Pages	603-608
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009 - Kobe, Japan Duration: 26 Oct 2009 → 30 Oct 2009

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Name	Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009

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Conference	10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kobe
Period	26/10/09 → 30/10/09

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Weil, J, Sikora, T, Durrieu, JL & Richard, G 2009, Automatic generation of lead sheets from polyphonic music signals. in Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009. Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009, pp. 603-608, 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009, Kobe, Japan, 26/10/09.

Automatic generation of lead sheets from polyphonic music signals. / Weil, Jan; Sikora, Thomas; Durrieu, J. L. et al.
Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009. 2009. p. 603-608 (Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2009).

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