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Towards the tangible: microtonal scale exploration in Central-African music

Olmo Cornelis (UGent) and Joren Six (UGent)
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This proposal presents TARSOS, an easy-to-use platform for automated pitch analysis especially designed to explore non-Western music. Two considerations were the starting point of this research: i) thnomusicology is mainly performed from an anthropological and ethnographical approach, and ii) current Music Information Retrieval (MIR) applications are biased towards Western music and are thus not suitable to the particularities of other musical cultures. This research tries to develop an unbiased approach by a flexible interface for detection and representation of tone scales. No predispositions towards a certain music theory or pitch organization are made. Our goal is to document an aspect of the endangered musical heritage of African oral cultures, namely tone scale diversity.

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Cornelis, Olmo, and Joren Six. “Towards the Tangible: Microtonal Scale Exploration in Central-African Music.” Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings, 2012.
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Cornelis, O., & Six, J. (2012). Towards the tangible: microtonal scale exploration in Central-African music. Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings. Presented at the Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM - 2012), Vancouver, Canada.
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Cornelis, Olmo, and Joren Six. 2012. “Towards the Tangible: Microtonal Scale Exploration in Central-African Music.” In Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings.
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Cornelis, Olmo, and Joren Six. 2012. “Towards the Tangible: Microtonal Scale Exploration in Central-African Music.” In Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings.
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Cornelis O, Six J. Towards the tangible: microtonal scale exploration in Central-African music. In: Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings. 2012.
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O. Cornelis and J. Six, “Towards the tangible: microtonal scale exploration in Central-African music,” in Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings, Vancouver, Canada, 2012.
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  abstract     = {{This proposal presents TARSOS, an easy-to-use platform for automated pitch analysis especially designed to explore non-Western music. Two considerations were the starting point of this research: i) thnomusicology is mainly performed from an anthropological and ethnographical approach, and ii) current Music Information Retrieval (MIR) applications are biased towards Western music and are thus not suitable to the particularities of other musical cultures. This research tries to develop an unbiased approach by a flexible interface for detection and representation of tone scales. No predispositions towards a certain music theory or pitch organization are made. Our goal is to document an aspect of the endangered musical heritage of African oral cultures, namely tone scale diversity.}},
  author       = {{Cornelis, Olmo and Six, Joren}},
  booktitle    = {{Analytical Approaches to World Music, Proceedings}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Vancouver, Canada}},
  pages        = {{5}},
  title        = {{Towards the tangible: microtonal scale exploration in Central-African music}},
  url          = {{http://www.aawmconference.com/aawm2012/papers/cornelis_p.pdf}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}