Academic Press Library in Signal Processing

Chapter 27

Music Signal Processing

Meinard Müller* and Anssi Klapuri^†,    ^7ast;International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Semantic Audio Processing, Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058, Erlangen, Germany,    ^†Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 1, Tampere, Finland

Abstract

Music signals possess specific acoustic and structural characteristics that are not shared by spoken language or audio signals from other domains. In fact, many music analysis tasks only become feasible by exploiting suitable music-specific assumptions. In this chapter, we give an overview of feature design principles that have been applied to music signals to account for the music-specific aspects. In particular, we discuss various musically expressive feature representations ...