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The goal of this research is to determine whether such properties as tonality, mode, meter and tune title remain similar between different versions of the same melody. A variability in some features makes classifying and searching tasks more difficult. The author uses a corpus of traditional dance melodies on audio recordings from Macedonia (Greece), as a base for analysis.
We show that, in general, none of the features – meter, mode, key and tune title – are invariable on their own, for all versions of a selected tune. At the same time, using linguistic features where the musical ones fail, and vice versa, helps to improve the chances of a correct attribution and an efficient search.
It is possible now to use the examples of invariance violations to assess possible search systems for a corpus of musical works.
I. Saitanov—Independent Researcher.
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Presumably, instead of searching for consequent notes of melody one can use one of the reduction techniques described in GTTM (see [6]) to identify a basic melody first. And then search for this basic version instead of melody itself. For traditional dance melodies of Macedonia (Greece) this could be a subject for further study.
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Παπαράτζα – Κυριάκος Γευγελης (Κλαρίνο) | CD 1 | Track 08 |
Παπαραντζα – Τα Χαλκινα Της Γουμενισσας | CD 2 | Track 10 |
Συγκαθιστός του γάμου (Πουσεντνιτσα) – Θανάσης Σέρκος (Κλαρίνο) | CD 3 | Track 11 |
Πουσέτνιτσα – Κυριάκος Γευγελης (Κλαρίνο) | CD 1 | Track 07 |
Έντεκα η Αϊβασιλιάτικος – Χάλκινα Κοζάνης | CD 4 | Track 06 |
Έντεκα – Θανάσης Σέρκος (Κλαρίνο) | CD 3 | Track 07 |
Ραικος – Ψαθάδες | CD 5 | Track 16 |
Τρεχατος – Ψαθάδες | CD 5 | Track 22 |
Τώρα τα πουλιά (Χιτζαζ) – Κυριάκος Γευγελης (Κλαρίνο) | CD 1 | Track 09 |
Οσμάν πασάς – Θανάσης Σέρκος (Κλαρίνο) | CD 3 | Track 17 |
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Τα χάλκινα της Γουμένισσας – Ιστορική μουσικολογική προσέγγιση. Γιώργης Μελίκης. 2001.
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Τα χάλκινα της Γουμένισσας. Θερμαϊκός, Θερ 166.
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Χοροί της Γουμένισσας και της Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας. Με την κομπανία του Θανάση Σέρκου. Λύκειον των Ελληνίδων. CD A΄ LCGW 111
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Χάλκινα Κοζάνης, με την κομπανία του Δημήτρη Κώτσικα. Κίνησις 329-2. 2002
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Μακεδονικοι χοροι με την οικογενεια Ψαθα.
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Saitanov, I. (2019). Textual and Musical Invariants for Searching and Classification of Traditional Music. In: Eismont, P., Mitrenina, O., Pereltsvaig, A. (eds) Language, Music and Computing. LMAC 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 943. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05594-3_7
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