Damien SAGRILLO
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Zurich9 July 2007
Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms
EsAC(Essener Assoziativ Code)
Analysis of Scottish Songs
Atlas of (European) Folksong (Idioms)
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1 EsACHelmut Schaffrath (1942-1994)EsAC for encoding &
Essen software for analysing one part songs
ICTM Study Group of Computer Aided Research http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/beta/stg/index.php?lcode=3&tcode=63
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http://ulrich-franzke.de/seiten/schaffrath.html
EsAC
Scottish song Todlen Hame, 1rst phrase
ESSEN ANALYSIS SOFTWARE1 statistics of intervals and degrees2 statistics of rhythm and durations3 phrasing, range, scales and number of phrases4 order of accent tones and order of final tones of phrases5 melodic contour, melodic and rhythmic structure
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1 EsAC
Todlen Hame in ESACand analysed by Essen Software
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1 EsAC
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1 EsAC
Todlen Hame
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Prospective Atlas of European Folksongs informing about geographical idioms
Two main tracks1 drawing melodic contours2 distinguishing song structures
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Form analysis by Essen software
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Todlen Hame
3 (EXPECTED) RESULTSRestrictions for this presentation
and therefore the term “Towards” in the title
51 songs of Scotland62 songs of Ireland503 songs of Lorraine615 songs of Luxembourg
This is not a well balanced mass
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10http://www.vysoketatry.com/mapy/europa/europa.gif 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS
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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS
The length of the songs in phrases
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Main structures
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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS
Range
• Further caracteristics of Scottish songs
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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS
• the Scots snap
• dotted rhythms
4 THE PROSPECTIVE ATLAS
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• The catalogue of melodic progression (1)
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4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS
• The catalogue of melodic progression (2)digital version (1)
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• The catalogue of melodic progression (3)digital version (2)
4 THE SONG ATLAS
showing a typical Scottish song: Nanny O
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Nanny O
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and showing a typical Luxembourgish songEim Steffen
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4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS
5 OUTLOOK
thank you for your attention
Damien Sagrillo
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