Short-Term Sinusoidal Modeling of an Oriental Music Signal by Using CQT Transform

Lhoucine Bahatti, Mimoun Zazoui, Omar Bouattane, Ahmed Rebbani

Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Enseignement Technique, Université Hassan II Mohammedia, Mohammedia, Morocco.
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Mohammedia, Morocco.

DOI: 10.4236/jsip.2013.41006                

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for characterizing a musical signal by extracting a set of harmonic descriptors reflecting the maximum information contained in this signal. We focus our study on a signal of oriental music characterized by its richness in tone that can be extended to 1/4 tone, taking into account the frequency and time characteristics of this type of music. To do so, the original signal is slotted and analyzed on a window of short duration. This signal is viewed as the result of a combined modulation of amplitude and frequency. For this result, we apply short-term the non-stationary sinusoidal modeling technique. In each segment, the signal is represented by a set of sinusoids characterized by their intrinsic parameters: amplitudes, frequencies and phases. The modeling approach adopted is closely related to the slot window; therefore great importance is devoted to the study and the choice of the kind of the window and its width. It must be of variable length in order to get better results in the practical implementation of our method. For this purpose, evaluation tests were carried out by synthesizing the signal from the estimated parameters. Interesting results have been identified concerning the comparison of the synthesized signal with the original signal.

Keywords

Oriental Music Signal; Short Time Fourier Transform; Constant Q Transform; Modulation; Sinusoidal Modeling; Weighting Window; 1/4 Tone

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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