Polyphonic music retrieval: the n-gram approach Shyamala Doraisamy   View Paper (PDF)   Return to June 2005, Volume 39, Issue 1 Abstract This Music Information Retrieval (MIR) study investigates the use of n-grams and textual Information Retrieval (IR) approaches for the retrieval and access of polyphonic music data. IR, synonymous with text IR, implies the task of retrieving documents or texts with information content that is relevant to a user's information need. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery