The Problem of Classification in Folksong Research: a Short History

Keller, Marcello Sorce

doi:10.1080/0015587x.1984.9716300

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“…A few decades back, classification methods based on the ending notes, number of lines in the song, number of syllables in a line, etc., were adopted in Elschekova (1966), Keller (1984), Bohlman (1988), Umapathy, Krishnan, and Jimaa (2005), Van Kranenburg et al (2007), but not without problems and limitations (Keller, 1984). In recent years, machine learning models have been heavily employed for musical classification, mainly based on the genre.…”

Section: Classification Methods For Identification Of Folk Song and M...mentioning

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Resource building and classification of Mizo folk songs

Ramdinmawii,

Nath

2024

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Folk culture represents the social, ethnic, and traditional livelihood of people belonging to a certain tribe or community and is important in keeping their culture and tradition alive. The Mizo people are a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group, native to the Indian state of Mizoram and neighboring regions of Northeast India. Mizo folk culture is an amalgamation of festivity, celebration, liveliness, kinship, brotherhood, and merriment, and above all, preserves the ethnicity of this tribal community that is fundamentally entrenched. Unfortunately, the Mizos are fast giving up their old customs and adopting the new mode of life that is greatly influenced by the western culture. This makes it all the more crucial to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of this ethnic tribe whose folk cultures are vanishing day by day. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first attempt at preservation and classification of Mizo folk songs. The first part of this paper presents a literature survey on preservation, analysis, and classification of folk songs. The second part presents the methodology for preliminary classification of Mizo folk songs. Three categories of Mizo folk songs—Hunting chants (Hlado), Children’s songs (Pawnto hla), and Elderly songs (Pi pu zai)—are used in this study. A total of 29 acoustic features are used. A long short-term memory network using custom attention layer has been proposed for classification, whose results are compared with four supervised models (Support Vector Machines, K-Nearest Neighbor, Naive Baye’s, and Ensemble). Experimental results from the proposed model are promising, with an implication of scope for future research in acoustic analysis and classification of Mizo folk songs using recent unsupervised methods.

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Resource building and classification of Mizo folk songs

Ramdinmawii,

Nath

2024

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“…What makes the difference, year after year is, however, no random variation. Just like Bela Bartok revealed with his lexicographic and grammatical indexing of Hungarian folk tunes, change occurs more in some sections of the song and less in others (Sorce Keller 1984). Among humpbacks we therefore see an oral tradition unfolding in its transformational, collective and participatory dimensions.…”

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Zoomusicology and Ethnomusicology: A Marriage to Celebrate in Heaven

Keller¹

2012

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What Cartesian nonsense to think of birdsong as pre-programmed cries uttered by birds to advertise their presence to the opposite sex, and so forth! Each bird-cry is a full-hearted release of the self into the air, accompanied by such joy, as we can barely comprehend. (J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year, 2008:132) S'il s'avère que la musique est un phénomène répandu chez plusieurs espèces vivantes en-dehors de l'homme, cela remettra forcément en cause la définition de la musique, et plus largement de l'homme et de sa culture, ainsi que l'idée que l'on se fait de l'animal lui-měme. (François-Bernard Mâche, Musique, mythe, nature, 1983:61)

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“…In the 1980s Keller [9] contemplated ... a computer theoretically capable of taking into consideration an unlimited number of parameters and of finding correlations between each and every one of them may be able to detect patterns that would otherwise escape human attention. Such ideas can now begin to be realized with modern pattern discovery techniques.…”

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Discovery of distinctive patterns in music

Conklin

2010

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This paper proposes a new view of pattern discovery in music: inductive querying a corpus for maximally general distinctive patterns. A pattern is distinctive if it is over-represented with respect to an anticorpus, and maximally general distinctive if no subsuming pattern is also distinctive. An algorithm for maximally general distinctive pattern discovery is presented and applied to folk song melodies from three geographic regions, and to chord sequences from three music genres. Distinctive patterns are applicable to a wide range of music analysis tasks where an anticorpus can be defined and contrasted with an analysis corpus.

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The Problem of Classification in Folksong Research: a Short History

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Resource building and classification of Mizo folk songs

Resource building and classification of Mizo folk songs

Zoomusicology and Ethnomusicology: A Marriage to Celebrate in Heaven

Discovery of distinctive patterns in music

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