A method for structural analysis of Ottoman-Turkish Makam music scores

Sentürk, Sertan; Serra, Xavier

A method for structural analysis of Ottoman-Turkish Makam music scores

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Şentürk S, Serra X. A method for structural analysis of Ottoman-Turkish Makam music scores. In: Beauguitte P, Duggan B, Kelleher J, editors. 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis; 2016 Jun 15-17; Dublin, Ireland. [place unknown]: International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis; 2016. p. 39-46.

Abstract

From a computational perspective, structural analysis of OttomanTurkish makam music (OTMM) is a research topic that has not been addressed thoroughly. In this paper we propose a method, which processes machine-readable music scores of OTMM to extract and semiotically describe the melodic and lyrical organization of the music piece automatically using basic string similarity and graph analysis techniques. The proposed method is used to identify around 50000 phrases in 1300 music scores and 21500 sections in 1770 scores, respectively. The obtained information may be useful for relevant research in music education and musicology, and it has already been used to aid several computational tasks such as music score content validation, digital music engraving and audio-score alignment.

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Comunicació presentada al 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, celebrat els dies 15 a 17 de juny de 2016 a Dublín, Irlanda.Comunicació presentada al 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, celebrat els dies 15 a 17 de juny de 2016 a Dublín, Irlanda.