Notes in a musical piece are building blocks employed in non-random ways to
create melodies. It is the "interaction" among a limited amount of notes that
allows constructing the variety of musical compositions that have been written
in centuries and within different cultures. Networks are a modeling tool that
is commonly employed to represent a set of entities interacting in some way.
Thus, notes composing a melody can be seen as nodes of a network that are
connected whenever these are played in sequence. The outcome of such a process
results in a directed graph. By using complex network theory, some main metrics
of musical graphs can be measured, which characterize the related musical
pieces. In this paper, we define a framework to represent melodies as networks.
Then, we provide an analysis on a set of guitar solos performed by main
musicians. Results of this study indicate that the presented model can have an
impact on audio and multimedia applications such as music classification,
identification, e-learning, automatic music generation, multimedia
entertainment.Comment: to appear in Information Science, Elsevier. Please cite the paper
including such information. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1603.0497
