Looking for patterns in plainchant
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Musicologists undertaking detailed analyses of medieval manuscripts containing Western liturgical chant would welcome computer assistance to enable them to make swift comparisons of large amounts of unfamiliar material. The early manuscripts employ several different notations, using neumes rather than our modern notes. The earliest notations do not specify the exact pitch or rhythm of the music, only the approximate contour of the melody. Later notations are more precise regarding pitch but contain less information about the relative length of the notes. Most automatic analysis of musical sequences is based around pitch, rhythm and harmony: it is clear that a novel approach is required for this repertoire. We show that sequence-alignment algorithms can be employed to analyse this music, using a metric based just on the neumes. We can search for near-matched alignments of specific short phrases of music, or use clustering techniques to find groupings based on optimal alignments between pairs of chants or parts of chants. Computation is split between Visual Basic for the user interface, C for the algorithms and R for the statistical routines.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003