By Peter van Kranenburg, Anja Volk, and Frans Wiering Abstract The recurrence of characteristic motifs plays an important role in the identification of a folk song melody as member of a tune family. Based on a unique data set with … Continue reading
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Third International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis
The Tunes & Tales project hosted the third edition of the International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis at the Meertens Institute in the beginning of June. The workshop focussed on the question how current developments in knowledge engineering and information … Continue reading
On Identifying Folk Song Melodies Employing Recurring Motifs
Stability and Variation in Cadence Formulas in Oral and Semi-Oral Chant Traditions – a Computational Approach
By Dániel Péter Biró, Peter van Kranenburg, Steven R. Ness, George Tzanetakis, and Anja Volk Abstract This paper deals with current research into melodic stability and variation in cadences as they occur in oral and semi-oral traditions. Creating a new … Continue reading
Towards Modelling Variation in Music as Foundation for Similarity
By Anja Volk, W. Bas de Haas, and Peter van Kranenburg. Abstract This paper investigates the concept of variation in music from the perspective of music similarity. Music similarity is a central concept in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), however there … Continue reading