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Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review
Foundations and Trends® in
Information Retrieval
Volume 1 Issue 1
DOI: 10.1561/1500000002
Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review
Nicola Orio
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova Via Gradenigo, 6/b, Padova 35131, Italy, orio@dei.unipd.it
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Nicola Orio
(2006)
"Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review",
Foundations and Trends® in
Information Retrieval: Vol. 1: No 1, pp 1-90.
http:/dx.doi.org/10.1561/1500000002
Abstract
The increasing availability of music in digital format needs to be matched by the development of tools for music accessing,
filtering, classification, and retrieval. The research area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) covers many of these aspects.
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of this vast and new field. A number of issues, which are peculiar to the
music language, are described--including forms, formats, and dimensions of music--together with the typologies of users and
their information needs. To fulfil these needs a number of approaches are discussed, from direct search to information filtering
and clustering of music documents. An overview of the techniques for music processing, which are commonly exploited in many
approaches, is also presented. Evaluation and comparisons of the approaches on a common benchmark are other important issues.
To this end, a description of the initial efforts and evaluation campaigns for MIR is provided.
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