Demo: Music Search Based on Aesthetic Similarity

This page contains search results generated by a music search engine prototype. The system uses power-law metrics to extract statistical proportions of music-theoretic and other attributes of music, as per:

1. B. Manaris, J. Romero, P. Machado, D. Krehbiel, T. Hirzel, W. Pharr, and R.B. Davis, "Zipf's Law, Music Classification and Aesthetics," Computer Music Journal 29(1), MIT Press, pp. 55-69, Spring 2005.

2. P. Roos and B. Manaris, "A Music Information Retrieval Approach Based on Power Laws," Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-07), Patras, Greece, Oct. 2007, (to appear).

Usage: Given a source piece, the search engine outputs the three most aesthetically similar pieces from a corpus of 15,200+ MIDI files (e.g., Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, Modern, Jazz, Rock, Country, and Pop).

Source Piece: Jazz, Miles Davis: Blue in Green
Search Results (ordered by MSE):

0.00269890108281 Jazz, Unknown: Plasir
0.00433839952326 ELGAR, Sir Edward (1857-1934): Chanson de Matin (1901) (R.Finley)
0.00436589216365 Jazz, Nat King Cole: When Sunny Gets Blue

Source Piece: PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-94): Hodie Christus natus est (B.F.M.Geurts)
Search Results (ordered by MSE):

0.0113539985911 ASOLA, Matteo (1560-1609): Omnes de Saba venient Canto di Epifania (J.-C.Templeur)
0.0118576909416 FRANCO, Hernando (1532-85): Miserere mei Deus (J.-C.Templeur)
0.0125048151454 GIOVANELLI, Ruggiero (c1560-1625): O quam inanes - O come vaneggiate (J.-C.Templeur)

Source Piece: BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 8 Lieder, Op.52, 6.Das Blümchen Wunderhold (S.S.Eskandari)
Search Results (ordered by MSE):

0.0182263519745 BURGMÜLLER, Johann Friedrich (1806-74): Etudes, Op.100, No.1, La Candeur (R.Becerra)
0.0190293080605 BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Bagatelles, Op.126, 5.Quasi allegretto in G (J.Smith)
0.0193116885464 BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770-1827): 8 Lieder, Op.52, 3.Das Liedchen von der Ruhe (S.S.Eskandari)

Source Piece: Jazz, Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk
Search Results (ordered by MSE):

0.00383752202373 Jazz, Thelonious Monk: Well, You Needn't
0.00402544665232 Jazz, Thelonious Monk: Off-Minor
0.00591580024222 Jazz, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Source Piece: BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Two-Part Invention No.13 in A-, BWV784 (Cakewalk demo)
Search Results (ordered by MSE):

0.0500157310619 BRAHMS, Johannes (1833-97): Waltzes Op.39, No.9 in D- (C.Mote)
0.0535493985015 SATIE, Erik (1866-1925): Gnossiennes (1891), Posthumous No.6. (J.E.Dery)
0.0560128839002 SATIE, Erik (1866-1925): Embryons desséchés (Dried Up Embryoes) (1913), 1.Of the Holothurian (T.D.Matthews)