Novel Music Segmentation Interface and the Jazz Tune Collection

In this paper we present MOSSA, an easy-to-use interface for
mobile devices, developed to annotate the segment structure of
music. Moreover, we present the jazz tune collection (JTC), a
database of 125 Jazz melodies annotated using MOSSA, and developed
specifically for benchmarking of computational models
of melody segmentation. Each melody in the JTC has been annotated
with segment boundaries by three human listeners, and
segment boundary salience by two human listeners. We provide
a light analysis of the inter-annotation-agreement of the annotations
in the JTC, and also test the likelihood of the annotations
been made using ‘gap’ related cues (large pitch intervals or interonset-intervals)
and ‘repetition’ related cues (exact/approximate
repetition of the beginning or ending of phrases).