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In recent years one can observe a significant progress in transcribing harmony from songs. New methods and applications had made it easy to automatically retrieve harmony, i.e. the chord progression for any song one can find. The shortcoming of these applications however is presentation of the transcription. Even though in most cases verses, choruses or other parts of a song share the same harmony, theyre never presented in a compact form. Even when two chords are repeated throughout the entire song one has to look at the entire transcription - from the first to the last occurrence of a chord - to realize that. This paper researches approaches to structuring the transcription, like using repetition notation (e.g. “x2”) or finding the shortest commonly repeated chord progression, which may be a riff.
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Kopel, M. (2017). Towards Auto-structuring Harmony Transcription. In: Nguyen, N., Tojo, S., Nguyen, L., Trawiński, B. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10191. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54472-4_53
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