Distributed Vector Representations of Folksong Motifs

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_26MaRDI QIDQ5237283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aitor Arronte Alvarez, Francisco Gómez-Martín

Publication date 17 October 2019

Published in Mathematics and Computation in Music (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08756

zbMATH Keywords

word2vecfolksong motifsmelodic contextmotif embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Mathematics and music (00A65)

Abstract: This article presents a distributed vector representation model for learning folksong motifs. A skip-gram version of word2vec with negative sampling is used to represent high quality embeddings. Motifs from the Essen Folksong collection are compared based on their cosine similarity. A new evaluation method for testing the quality of the embeddings based on a melodic similarity task is presented to show how the vector space can represent complex contextual features, and how it can be utilized for the study of folksong variation.

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Uses Software

• Music21
• word2vec

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