Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms

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Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms

• Damien SAGRILLO

Zurich9 July 2007
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Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms

• EsAC(Essener Assoziativ Code)
• Analysis of Scottish Songs
• Atlas of (European) Folksong (Idioms)

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1 EsAC

• Helmut 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?lc
  ode3tcode63

http//ulrich-franzke.de/seiten/schaffrath.html
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1 EsAC

• EsAC
• Scottish song Todlen Hame, 1rst phrase
• ESSEN ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
• 1 statistics of intervals and degrees
• 2 statistics of rhythm and durations
• 3 phrasing, range, scales and number of phrases
• 4 order of accent tones and order of final tones
  of phrases
• 5 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

• Todlen Hame

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2 PURPOSE

• Prospective Atlas of European Folksongs informing
  about geographical idioms
• Two main tracks
• 1 drawing melodic contours
• 2 distinguishing song structures

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2 PURPOSE
Form analysis by Essen software

• Todlen Hame

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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS

• Restrictions for this presentationand 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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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS
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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS

• The length of the songs in phrases

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• Main structures

3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS
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3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS

• Range

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Further caracteristics of Scottish songs
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• dotted rhythms

• the Scots snap

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4 THE PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

• 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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4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

• The catalogue of melodic progression
  (3) digital version (2)

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4 THE SONG ATLAS
4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

• showing a typical Scottish song Nanny O

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Nanny O
4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS
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4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

• and showing a typical Luxembourgish song
• Eim Steffen

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5 OUTLOOK

• thank you for your attention
• Damien Sagrillo