The Café Scientifique is an international initiative to host presentations by scientists from different domains in an informal environment. Amsterdam’s Café Scientifique is organized by students of the University of Amsterdam. For their evening on “Computer Music”, they invited me … 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
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Presentation at Café Scientifique, Amsterdam, 25 February 2013
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On Identifying Folk Song Melodies Employing Recurring Motifs
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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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
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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
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In Search of an Appropriate Abstraction Level for Motif Annotations
By Folgert Karsdorp, Peter van Kranenburg, Theo Meder, Dolf Trieschnigg and Antal van den Bosch Abstract We present ongoing research on the role of motifs in oral transmission of stories. We assume that motifs constitute the primary building blocks of stories. … Continue reading
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