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Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms

Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms. Damien SAGRILLO. Zurich 9 July 2007. Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms. EsAC ( Es sener A ssoziativ C ode) Analysis of Scottish Songs Atlas of (European) Folksong (Idioms) . 1 EsAC. Helmut Schaffrath (1942-1994)

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Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms

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  1. Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms Damien SAGRILLO Zurich9 July 2007

  2. Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms • EsAC(Essener Assoziativ Code) • Analysis of Scottish Songs • Atlas of (European) Folksong (Idioms)

  3. 1 EsAC • Helmut Schaffrath (1942-1994) • EsAC for encoding & Essen software for analysing one part songs • ICTM Study Group of Computer Aided Research http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/beta/stg/index.php?lcode=3&tcode=63 http://ulrich-franzke.de/seiten/schaffrath.html

  4. 1 EsAC • EsAC Scottish song Todlen Hame, 1rst phrase • ESSEN ANALYSIS SOFTWARE 1 statistics of intervals and degrees 2 statistics of rhythm and durations 3 phrasing, range, scales and number of phrases 4 order of accent tones and order of final tones of phrases 5 melodic contour, melodic and rhythmic structure

  5. 1 EsAC • Todlen Hame in ESACand analysed by Essen Software

  6. 1 EsAC • Todlen Hame

  7. 2 PURPOSE • Prospective Atlas of European Folksongs informing about geographical idioms • Two main tracks 1 drawing melodic contours 2 distinguishing song structures

  8. 2 PURPOSE Form analysis by Essen software • Todlen Hame

  9. 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS • Restrictions for this presentationand therefore the term “Towards” in the title 51 songs of Scotland62 songs of Ireland503 songs of Lorraine615 songs of Luxembourg This is not a well balanced mass

  10. http://www.vysoketatry.com/mapy/europa/europa.gif 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS

  11. 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS • The length of the songs in phrases

  12. Main structures 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS

  13. 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS • Range

  14. Further caracteristics of Scottish songs 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS • dotted rhythms • the Scots snap

  15. 4 THE PROSPECTIVE ATLAS • The catalogue of melodic progression (1)

  16. 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS • The catalogue of melodic progression (2) digital version (1)

  17. 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS • The catalogue of melodic progression (3) digital version (2)

  18. 4 THE SONG ATLAS 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS • showing a typical Scottish song: Nanny O

  19. Nanny O 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

  20. 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS • and showing a typical Luxembourgish song Eim Steffen

  21. 5 OUTLOOK thank you for your attention Damien Sagrillo

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