LISTENERS ARE THOUGHT TO BE CAPABLE of perceiving multiple voices in music. This paper presents different views of what 'voice' means and how the problem of voice separation can be systematically described, with a view to understanding the problem better and developing a systematic description of the cognitive task of segregating voices in music. Well-established perceptual principles of auditory streaming are examined and then tailored to the more specific problem of voice separation in timbrally undifferentiated music. Adopting a perceptual view of musical voice, a computational prototype is developed that splits a musical score (symbolic musical data) into different voices. A single 'voice' may consist of one or more synchronous notes that are perceived as belonging to the same auditory stream. The proposed model is tested against a small dataset that acts as ground truth. The results support the theoretical viewpoint adopted in the paper.
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September 2008
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September 01 2008
Voice And Stream: Perceptual And Computational Modeling Of Voice Separation
Emilios Cambouropoulos
Emilios Cambouropoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Music Perception (2008) 26 (1): 75–94.
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Emilios Cambouropoulos; Voice And Stream: Perceptual And Computational Modeling Of Voice Separation. Music Perception 1 September 2008; 26 (1): 75–94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2008.26.1.75
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