Music synthesis is one of the most essential features of music
notation software and applications aimed at navigating digital
music score libraries. Currently, the majority of music synthesis
tools are designed for Eurogenetic musics, and they are not able
to address the culture-specific aspects (such as tuning, intonation
and timbre) of many music cultures. In this paper, we focus on the
tuning dimension in musical score playback for Turkish Makam
Music (TMM). Based on existing computational ...
Music synthesis is one of the most essential features of music
notation software and applications aimed at navigating digital
music score libraries. Currently, the majority of music synthesis
tools are designed for Eurogenetic musics, and they are not able
to address the culture-specific aspects (such as tuning, intonation
and timbre) of many music cultures. In this paper, we focus on the
tuning dimension in musical score playback for Turkish Makam
Music (TMM). Based on existing computational tuning analysis
methodologies, we propose an automatic synthesis methodology,
which allows the user to listen to a music score synthesized according
to the tuning extracted from an audio recording. As a
proof-of-concept, we also present a desktop application, which
allows the users to listen to playback of TMM music scores according
to the theoretical temperament or a user specified reference
recording. The playback of the synthesis using the tuning
extracted from the recordings may provide a better user experience,
and it may be used to assist music education, enhance
music score editors and complement research in computational
musicology.
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