Short Modern Winnebago Text with Song

Text Visualization of Song Lyrics

We investigate techniques for visualizing song lyrics. Specifically, we present a design to tightly align musical and linguistic features of a song in a way that preserves the readability of lyrics, while conveying how the melodic, harmonic, and metric lines of the music fit with the text. We demonstrate and evaluate our technique on two examples that have been implemented using Protovis, and p...

The Winnebago County (Iowa) Meteorites.

Text Alignment in Japanese Children’s Song

In this paper, I examine the text-setting in 43 Japanese Children’s songs, called “warabe uta”. By examining the text-tune alignment and the text-meter alignment, I show that accented positions and accentual tonal transitions are more important than the other positions and other tonal transitions in the text-setting in Japanese songs. This working paper is available in University of Pennsylvani...

Text-to-tune Alignment in Speech and Song

Musical and linguistic systems are similar in many aspects, including a common timecourse of acquisition and the use of many of the same cues to express structure. Any direct parallels between the systems would be beneficial to infants, who are learning both simultaneously. Using ToBI (Tones and Breaks Indices) analyses of spoken renditions of nursery rhymes and modified ToBI analyses (coding o...

Text, rhythm and metrical form in an Aboriginal song series

Setting words to (musical) rhythm is an attempt to match rhythmic positions and syllables in an aesthetically appealing manner. In English songs acceptability is based on two separate but interactive judgments: matching stress with metrically strong positions, and matching prosodic constituents with rhythmic constituents [1]. This paper investigates a genre of Aboriginal songs and finds that wh...