7 papers
Towards cross-cultural study of folksong lyrics with machine translation
Anna Dvořáková, Anna Aljanaki, Danbinaerin Han +5
Music is universally present in human societies. Ethnomusicologists have long been documenting the diverse expressions of human musicality, and comparative musicology has recently…
A Flexible Encoding Model for Non-Unique Note Alignments
Suhit Chiruthapudi, Adam Štefunko, Silvan Peter +3
Symbolic music alignment links notes in a symbolic performance to their counterparts in a score. While existing alignment encoding formats provide unique correspondences between th…
Making Chant Computing Easy: CantusCorpus v1.0 and the PyCantus Library
Anna Dvořáková, Tim Eipert, Debra Lacoste +1
Digital Gregorian chant scholarship has for decades enjoyed the privilege of a large digital resource cataloguing chant sources: the Cantus ecosystem, with nearly 900,000 chants ca…
On Every Note a Griff: Looking for a Useful Representation of Basso Continuo Performance Style
Adam Štefunko, Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón, Jan Hajič
Basso continuo is a baroque improvisatory accompaniment style which involves improvising multiple parts above a given bass line in a musical score on a harpsichord or organ. Basso…
Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora
Jan Hajič, Fabian Moss
A major locus of musicological activity-increasingly in the digital domain-is the cataloguing of sources, which requires large-scale and long-lasting research collaborations. Yet,…
Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
Šimon Libřický, Jan Hajič
In learning music, difficulty is an important factor in choice of repertoire, choice of tempo, and structure of practice. These choices are typically done with the guidance of a te…
Gregorian melody, modality, and memory: Segmenting chant with Bayesian nonparametrics
Vojtěch Lanz, Jan Hajič
The idea that Gregorian melodies are constructed from some vocabulary of segments has long been a part of chant scholarship. This so-called "centonisation" theory has received much…