| 摘要 |
This invention relates to a method of semi-automatic or automatic music information retrieval and classification using continuity information and a method for obtaining the continuity information by finding the discontinuous transitions in the pitch curve of a musical piece and using energy considerations. The music information retrieval comprises retrieving desired musical pieces from a database of musical pieces which includes, but not limited to, private databases, archives, internet, etc., consisting of musical data stored as audio, audio tracks in multimedia data, musical notation, and other representations of music, including encoded representations; or embedded within other kinds of audio data including, but not limited to, audio effects, conversational speech, lectures, background music etc. |
