Music style mining and classification by melody

Music style is one of the features that people used to classify music. Discovery of music style is helpful for the design of a content-based music retrieval system. In this paper we investigate the mining and classification of music style by melody from a collection of MIDI music. We extract the chord from the melody and investigate the representation of extracted features and corresponding mining techniques for music classification. Experimental results show that the classification accuracy is about 70% to 84% for 2-way classification.