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Sep 8, 2021 · By learning from this field, ethnomusicologists and others can draw on these practices in ethnomusicological transcription to employ a degree of notational deconstruction that qualifies and tempers the use of any notational system.
Mar 7, 2019 · The problems of transcription and transnotation in ethnomusicology are especially important in Israel today because the concentration of so many different ethnic groups has led to increased research in their various folk musics.
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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).
Aug 25, 2021 · ABSTRACT. This paper argues for ethnomusicologists to begin using performance not just as a tool to understand the social and cultural field, but to use music and dance as methods in ‘translational’ ethnomusicology that focuses upon the translation and communication of artistic performance aesthetics and to theorise a space for research outcomes that are sited in original performative ...
- Simon McKerrell
- 2021
Is a Western conception of tonal hierarchy even relevant in this tradition, and if so, how did Densmore establish that it was? Further, why the changing meter in this transcription? Densmore has stated of her collections that the transcription of a song is divided into measures according to the vocal accent [48.4, p. 5]. But why discount the ...
- Leslie Tilley
- tilley@mit.edu
- 2018
Based in principles of social responsibility, applied ethnomusicology puts ethnomusicological knowledge to practical use through a music-centered intervention into a particular community, whose purpose is to benefit that community.
Apr 20, 2017 · No matter its roots, however, ethnomusicological theory is integral and indispensable to the field and not optional window dressing. 12. One of the reasons we may not have a clear idea of the nature of ethnomusicological theory is that it too often remains hidden from view in our work.
