Music Genre Classification with the Million Song Dataset 15-826 Final Report Dawen Liang‚† Haijie Gu‚‡ and Brendan O’Connor‡ † School of Music‚ ‡ Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University December 3‚ 2011 1 Introduction The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) draws from musicology‚ signal processing‚ and artificial intelligence. A long line of work addresses problems including: music understanding (extract the musically-meaningful information from audio waveforms)
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Music is such a powerful art form. One can take music written by others to tell the story of one’s life. In my case I have many different playlist on my personal media player‚ used for carious occasions and reasons. But music that can be described as journaling my life can be separated very simply. The songs central message‚ what is it that the artist is singing about. The second determination is based solely on the uniqueness of the song type. My media player contains essentially an intimate look
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Genres of Music My favorite genre is R&B. Every genre has their own unique twist to it but I think what makes mine unique is the effect is has on people. R&B makes one want to move and dance to the beat of the music. It gives life to the ambience and it brings people to have a new personality. I personally find that it brings me up when I’m down. I find it very similar to hip-hop but R&B is a mixture of different genres which includes hip-hop in the mix. The artist that came to mind to associate
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Affects of Music We take sounds and create the music we hear every day. Our development on music is effected by people around us. We take the context of songs and relate it back to our own lives. People dislike certain types of music because they can’t relate or enjoy the sound. Although music affects us all differently‚ all melodies have a similar meaning. Everyone’s choice of music is greatly affected by influences. The genre we get into is all caused for the same reasons; family‚ friends
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The Division/Classification Essay Essentially‚ a comic book is a graphic‚ animated‚ colorful booklet‚ which could be black and white as well‚ and it also tells a story. (“Types of Comic Books). As crazy as it may seem‚ music videos also have the same characteristics. If you think about it‚ music videos can be very graphic‚ animated‚ colorful or black and white‚ and they tell a story also. Music videos can be divided into three major genres according to the mood‚ style‚ and the fanzines‚ which usually
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LESSON 7: PUNK‚ DISCO‚ GLAM ROCK‚ REGGAE‚ CUMBIA AND HARD ROCK Reggae A Jamaican music genre which originated from the ska and rocksteady. The word reggae means rags‚ ragged. This also mean ragged dance music. The music style of reggae has an offbeat rhythm‚ syncopated‚ and staccato chords. Reggae music use also stringed instruments like guitar‚ bass guitar and piano. For the percussion‚ reggae use snare drums and tom0tom drums. Horns are also used like the saxophone‚ trumpet and trombone. Some
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Classification of Music People judge one another on a variety of aspects‚ whether it is the clothes they wear or the people they socialize with. I believe that there are many different things that affect all these aspects‚ things that create our individual personality. The most major influence on an individual’s personality is the music he or she listens to. Music affects the individual’s behavior‚ actions‚ the way he or she thinks‚ wears and even the way the individual will speak. These
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Every person has there own style: what they wear‚ how they walk‚ who they talk to‚ or better yet what is playing in there headphones. When looking at someone’s outer appearance one can usually take a guess what kind of music there listening to. Fashion can become a big part of music. people sometimes want to copy the style of clothes that their favorite artist wears or act the way the person does as well. There are a few major stereotypes of people. Probably the easiest person to classify and what
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Music: The Beat to our Mind‚ Body and Soul Music is a powerful tool that has been scientifically proven to be useful and harmful in many different ways. The interconnection between music and the physical and mental health of human beings has been researched for centuries. Many people use music as a tool for brainstorming and motivation. Some look at music as a hobby; for some music is their passion‚ while others pursue music as their career. It is essential to choose your music wisely because
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Contemporary Western Music Genres Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers‚ shouts and chants‚ and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form‚ ubiquitous in jazz‚ rhythm and blues‚ and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions‚ of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression
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