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Sep 8, 2021 · The perspective of this article is centred on the implications of the idea of notation’s capacity to act deconstructively for transcription practices in ethnomusicology.
Jul 16, 2023 · Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component.
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Music transcription is a process of creating a notation of musical sounds, with music notation being the representation of musical sound through some other medium. This can take many forms, but this article, and the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) in general, is concerned with static, visual representations of sound, and specifically wit...
2.1 Music transcription in ethnomusicology
If they transcribe music at all, ethnomusicologists usually aim to document a specific performance on the basis of a recording (so-called ‘descriptive music-writing’), rather than to provide a model for performance (‘prescriptive music-writing’; Seeger, 1958). An ethnomusicologist may choose to make a ‘close transcription’ that includes details of playing style—melodic or rhythmic nuances, ornaments, timbral effects, etc.; or a ‘broad transcription’ in which such details are omitted in order...
2.2 Music transcription in MIR
In the MIR field, AMT is typically defined as the process of converting an audio recording or audio stream into some form of human- or machine-readable notation (Klapuri and Davy, 2006). The first approaches for automatic transcription of musical audio to machine-readable notation originated from the 1970s (e.g. Moorer, 1975), with the problem gaining attention from the early 2000s with the development of signal processing and pattern recognition methods for analysing audio signals. AMT is ge...
2.3 Music transcription in between the fields
In ethnomusicology, mechanical devices for automatic transcription and analysis have been used since before the advent of computer technology (Ellingson, 1992; Cooper and Sapiro, 2006), but their application has been limited mainly to the analysis of pitch (tonometry) and melodic contour (melography). The melograph devices developed and advocated by Seeger (1958) and Hood (1971; 1993) were a response to the limitations of staff notation and manual transcription: a melogram or spectrogram coul...
The methodology employed in this article consists of four main steps, which will be discussed in the following subsections. First, a previously conducted user study (Holzapfel and Benetos, 2019) has been extended, in which a group of musicology students with experience in transcription was asked to compile transcriptions for a series of short music...
In order to establish the basis for our analysis, we investigate the consistency between the two experts in the ratings of the transcriptions. As depicted in Fig. 1, there is a large consistency between the two experts in their ratings, with a correlation coefficient of 0.754. The ratings cover a large range of the overall scale, with about two-thi...
By comparing ratings of human experts with computational metrics through corpus and close analysis, we documented differences in how the quality of a transcription is assessed in ethnomusicology and in MIR. We revealed several aspects that the metrics seem to be ‘missing’ in Section 4.3. Computational metrics are only partially correlated with huma...
This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (2019-03694 to A.H.); the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW 2020.0102 to A. H.); E.B. is supported by a Turing Fellowship under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant EP/N510129/1).
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Mar 7, 2019 · Transcription: notation of music already existing in performance. Transnotation: transference of notation revised from one form to another. Bartók, Béla, Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs, New York, 1951. CrossRef Google Scholar.
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound.
Prof Håkan Lundström, Malmö Musik Högskola: "Visualising the unknown: Transcription in ethnomusicology"
