A Tool for the Analysis and Discovery of Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music

Sertan Şentürk, Andrés Ferraro, Alastair Porter, Xavier Serra, "A Tool for The Analysis and Discovery of Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music", in Extended Abstracts for the Late Breaking Demo Session of the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, Oct. 26th-30th 2015, Málaga (Spain).

Abstact: We present a web application for the analysis and discovery of Ottoman-Turkish makam music. The tool uses an audio-score alignment methodology developed for this music culture for the analysis. It stores the data to be analysed and also executes the analysis algorithms. In the visual interface, the extracted features and alignment results are shown in an audio player, rendering music score and audio representation synchronous to the playback. We plan to improve this prototype in the future mainly for musicological research and music education.

 

Demo Website: dunya.compmusic.upf.edu/makam

 

Recording Page

Corpora [9]:

 

Block Diagram of the Audio-Score Alignment Methodology

 

Code:

References
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