Apparatus and method for searching a melody

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1996-10-31

1999-02-23

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

84616, A63H 500, G04B 1300, G10H 700

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058746862

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method for easily, efficiently, and accurately searching melodies. A melody is inputted to a computer and converted into a form of a sequence of digitized representations of relative pitch differences between successive notes thereof. A melody database is searched for at least one sequence of digitized representations of relative pitch differences between successive notes which at least approximately matches the sequence of digitized representations of relative pitch differences between successive notes of the melody.

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Hawley, Michael J., Structure out of Sound, 1993, MIT Doctoral Thesis, Abstract.

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