A Review On Turkish Folk Music Solfege Books

Modeling Melodic Improvisation in Turkish Folk Music Using Variable-Length Markov Models

The paper describes a new database, which currently consists of 64 songs encompassing approximately 6600 notes, and a system, which uses Variable-Length Markov Models (VLMM) to predict the melodies in the uzun hava (long tune) form, a melodic structure in Turkish folk music. The work shows VLMMs are highly predictive. This suggests that variable-length Markov models (VLMMs) may be applied to ma...

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

Computational Modeling of Improvisation in Turkish Folk Music Using Variable-length Markov Models

The paper describes a new database, which currently consists of 64 songs encompassing approximately 6600 notes, and a system, which uses Variable-Length Markov Models (VLMM) to predict the melodies in the uzun hava (long tune) form, a melodic structure in Turkish folk music. The work shows VLMMs are highly predictive. This suggests that variable-length Markov models (VLMMs) may be applied to ma...

The Bbc Folk Music Collection

In a sense I write under false pretences because the BBC possesses no special archives devoted to folk music. For the purposes of broadcasting, the BBC began to make recordings a t the end of 1931 and over the las t thirty years has built up a general Sound Archives of some 30,000 accession numbers: recordings mainly selected from its own broadcast programmes, ranging from variety to grand oper...

A "black Box" of Music Use: on Folk and Popular Music

There is no simple answer to the question o f the relationship between folk and popular music. If we discuss folk and popular music from the point o f view o f the active participants in the musical activities, and especially if we analyse the ways of music use in the particular life contexts of individuals and groups of people, it becomes clear that almost all the characteristics of the old fo...