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(2019) Language, music and computing, Dordrecht, Springer.
Textual and musical invariants for searching and classification of traditional music
Ilya Saitanov
pp. 78-87
The goal of this research is to determine whether such properties as tonality, mode, meter and tune title remain similar between different versions of the same melody. A variability in some features makes classifying and searching tasks more difficult. The author uses a corpus of traditional dance melodies on audio recordings from Macedonia (Greece), as a base for analysis. We show that, in general, none of the features – meter, mode, key and tune title – are invariable on their own, for all versions of a selected tune. At the same time, using linguistic features where the musical ones fail, and vice versa, helps to improve the chances of a correct attribution and an efficient search.It is possible now to use the examples of invariance violations to assess possible search systems for a corpus of musical works.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05594-3_7
Full citation:
Saitanov, I. (2019)., Textual and musical invariants for searching and classification of traditional music, in P. Eismont, O. Mitrenina & A. Pereltsvaig (eds.), Language, music and computing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 78-87.
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