Graph based representation of the music symbolic level. A music information retrieval application

In this work, a new music symbolic level representation system is described. It has been tested in two information retrieval tasks concerning similarity between segments of music and genre detection of a given segment. It could include both harmonic and contrapuntal information. Moreover, a new large dataset consisting of more than 5000 leadsheets is presented, with meta information taken from different web databases, including author information, year of first performance, lyrics, genre, etc.