The article by Gómez and Herrera presents an original methodology, audaciously situated on a challenging junction between computer science, cognitive science and ethnomusicology. We hope expert ethnomusicologists will understand the experimental aspect of such a cross-disciplinary undertaking, and will pardon the potential imperfection in this computational attempt toward cross-cultural underst...

A book review is presented for Raja Iskandar Bin Halid's The Malay Nobat: History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty, Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings (Lanham, MD: Books, 2022).

Abstract This article discusses reciprocity in research as engaged scholarship and, more specifically, applied ethnomusicology. It draws on two ethnographic studies and their associated activism Cape Town, South Africa Lagos, Nigeria. The investigates the histories of ethnomusicology suggests that each community requires a method engagement based its contextual specifics. Hence, case may be see...

Gregor Strle, researcher Institute of Ethnomusicology Scientfic Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana T: +386 1 4706 265 F: +386 1 4257 753 [email protected] Matija Marolt, Assist. Prof.. University of Ljubljana Faculty of Computer and Information Science Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana T: +386 1 4768 483 F: +386 1 4264 647 [email protected]...

Computational ethnomusicology (CE) refers to the use of computational techniques for the study of musics from around the world. It has been a growing field that has benefited from the the many advances that have been made in music information retrieval (MIR). The historical development of CE and the types of tasks that have been addressed so far, is traced in this paper. The use of computationa...

Background in ethnomusicology and music analysis. Melody in flamenco music is characterized by the presence of microtonality, pitch glides (portamenti or smooth transitions), a short pitch range or tessitura (usually limited to a range of a sixth and characterized by the insistence on a note and its contiguous ones), the use of enharmonic scale (having microtonal intervallic differences between...