Correspondence between Speech Melody and Pitch Contour in Sichuan Folk Song

  • Jul. 2019 – Sept. 2019. Rochester, NY, US.
  • Research Assistant supervised by prof. DUAN Zhiyao, Deparment of Electronic Computer Engineer, University of Rochester.

Main Information

  • Made a literature review of linguistics papers on relations between speech melody and notes in tone language song.
  • Set up a database on Sichuan folk song with music scores in MusicXML form, lyrics audio in Sichuan dialect in wav form and note-audio alignment character by character.
  • Analyzed the correspondence among the tone of each character, the change of fundamental frequency of each character audio and the change of music notes linked to it.
  • Evaluated different correspondence rates in different type of folk songs
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马英浩 (Nicolaus) MA Yinghao
PhD Student in AI & Music

MA Yinghao, PhD student in C4DM, QMUL. Research interests include music information retireval, self-supervised learning, music-related multimodal machine learning, and audio signal processing and matter.