Slides

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Assignment

Using multiple computer structures and solving symbolic alignments for classical music pieces in Python 3.

In this exercise, we will use our knowledge on computer structures to solve a very well-known problem of symbolic alignement. Hence, the overall goal of your work is

  1. Implement a string alignment algorithm
  2. Try to apply this to a collection of classical music pieces names
  3. Develop your own more adapted procedure to the specific problem of classical names matching
  4. Proposing your own approach to the problem of MIDI quality evaluation
  5. Extending your alignment algorithm to align MIDI scores

To simplify your work, the global layout of the exercise has been pre-coded inside the atiam-fpa.py script. You simply have to follow the questions written along the script, and insert your own code where the following tags appear

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# YOUR CODE HERE
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The set of classical music pieces is provided in the atiam-fpa.pkl file, which is already loaded at this point of the script and contain two structures

composers         # Array of all composers in the database
composers_tracks  # Hashtable of tracks for a given composer

Dependencies

In order to get the baseline script to work, you need to have a working distribution of Python, along with the following libraries

We highly recommend that you install Pip or Anaconda that will manage the automatic installation of those Python libraries (along with their dependencies).

For those of you who have never coded in Python, here are a few interesting resources to get started.

Baseline

First download the baseline code

After unzipping the file, you will find the following files

atiam-fpa/            # Folder of anonymized Beethoven MIDI files
atiam-fpa_alpha.dist  # Basic symbolic distance matrix
atiam-fpa_dna.dist    # Example of DNA-based distance matrix
atiam-fpa.pkl         # Serialized file with all track names and composers
atiam-fpa.ipynb       # Python notebook to fill out

Questions

All the questions are already detailed inside the code provided in the atiam-fpa.py script, but we recall them here and also provide an indicative grading value for each. Remember that if you have trouble implementing a given question, the different parts are almost completely independent, so you can jump to the next section. In open questions you can also at least provide a commented answer as to how you would approach the solution.

Part 1 - Exploring the collection / playing with MIDI

(1 pts) - Q-1.1 Re-implement either the bubble sort or quicksort (+1 pt) algorithm

(1 pts) - Q-1.2 Sort the collection of composers by decreasing number of tracks

(1 pts) - Q-1.3 Extend your sorting procedure, to sort all tracks from all composers alphabetically

(1 pts) - Q-1.4 Import some MIDI and produce prettier plots

(1 pts) - Q-1.5 Compute the number of notes in a MIDI and sort the collection

Part 2 - Implementing the alignment algorithm

(3 pts) - Q-2.1 Implement the basic (simple gap cost) Needleman-Wunsch (NW) algorithm

(1 pts) - Q-2.2 Apply the NW algorithm between all tracks of each composer

(2 pts) - Q-2.3 Extend your previous code so that it can compare more advanced properties

Part 3 - Extending the alignment algorithm and musical matching

(2 pts) - Q-3.1 Extending your algorithm to perform to a true musical name matching

(3 pts) - Q-3.2 Extend the NW algorithm to include affine gaps penalties (Gotoh algorithm)

Part 4 - Alignments between MIDI files and error-detection

(3 pts) - Q-4.1 Exploring MIDI properties

(4 pts) - Q-4.2 Automatic evaluation of a MIDI file quality

(4 pts) - Q-4.3 Extending your alignment algorithm to MIDI scores

Instructions

The script defines the overall exercise which should be filled

  • Use the given file atiam-fpa.py as a baseline script
  • You are authorized to define other files if you prefer
  • If stuck with code, you can still write your overall approach as a set of comments to earn some point
  • All your files should be packed in a zip file named [ATIAM][FpA2024]FirstName_LastName.zip

Deadline : 14/11/2024 - 23h59
Submission : esling [at] ircam (dot) fr
Formatting : mail with subject : [ATIAM][FpA2024] Name