Interest has been steadily growing in semantic audio and music information retrieval for the description of music structure, i.e. the global organization of music pieces in terms of large-scale structural units. This article presents a detailed methodology for the semiotic description of music structure, based on concepts and criteria which are formulated as generically as possible. We sum up the essential principles and practices developed during an annotation effort deployed by our research group (Metiss) on audio data, in the context of the Quaero project, which has led to the public release of over 380 annotations of pop songs from three different data sets. The paper also includes a few case studies and a concise statistical overview of the annotated data.

Authors: Bimbot, Frédéric; Sargent, Gabriel; Deruty, Emmanuel; Guichaoua, Corentin; Vincent, Emmanuel
Affiliation: METISS (PANAMA) Research Group, INRIA, IRISA CNRS-UMR 6074 and Université de Rennes 1, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France
AES Conference: 53rd International Conference: Semantic Audio (January 2014)
Paper Number: P1-1
Publication Date: January 27, 2014 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Music Informatics and Retrieval
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