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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4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

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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