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Automatic Detection of Melodic Patterns in Flamenco Singing by Analyzing Polyphonic Music Recordings
In this work an analysis of characteristic melodic pattern in flamenco fandango style is carried out. Contrary to
other analysis, where corpora are searched for characteristic melodic patterns, in this work characteristic melodic
patterns are defined by flamenco experts and then searched in the corpora. In our case, the corpora were composed
of pieces taken from two fandango styles, Valverde fandangos and Huelva capital fandangos. The chosen styles are
representative of fandango styles and are also different as for their musical characteristics. The patterns provided by
the flamenco experts were specified in MIDI format, but the corpora under study were provided in audio format.
Two algorithms had to be designed to accomplish the goal of our research: first, an algorithm extracting audio
features from the corpus and outputting a MIDI-like format; second, an algorithm to actually perform the search
based on the output provided by the first algorithm. Flamenco experts assessed the results of the searches and drew
conclusions