Music Summarization from Symbolic Data
David Huron
Music Cognition Group
Ohio State University
| TASK: | "Play me a little bit of this piece." i.e. Find the most distinctive or representative musical excerpts automatically. |
| APPROACH: | Using information theoretic measures to identify musical segments that have high entropy compared with other works, but low entropy within the work itself. |
| EVALUATION: | Compare automated results with results from perceptual experiments where listeners judge the musical importance of passages. |
| REFERENCES: | Mani & Maybury (Eds.) Advances in Automatic Text Summarization. MIT Press, 1999. |