SYMBOLS AND MYTHOLOGICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD TROUGH UKRAINIAN FOLK SONGS

Evidence from Rebétika and Folk Songs

In Arvaniti and Joseph (2000) we studied the variability in the pronunciation of the Greek phones spelled mp, nt, gg/gk, which in speech are said to consist of a nasal consonant, e.g., m, and a “voiced” stop consonant, e.g., b. Our data showed that the presence of the nasal depended largely on age, with younger speakers producing many more nasalless instances of these phones than older speakers...

Towards Structural Alignment of Folk Songs

We describe an alignment-based similarity framework for folk song variation research. The framework makes use of phrase and meter information encoded in Humdrum scores. Local similarity measures are used to compute match scores, which are combined with gap scores to form increasingly larger alignments and higher-level similarity values. We discuss the effects of some similarity measures on the ...

Dikir Farmasi: folk songs for health education

In an effort to enhance public awareness, we develop Dikir Farmasi as an innovative approach to deliver health information. Dikir Farmasi combines the elements of dikir barat (a type of traditional folk song rhythm) and traditional sketches which are popular in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia. These sketches and dikir barat rhythmic songs, with lyrics touch on issues such as drug abuse and regu...

The World of Vodou Songs

Finding Repeating Stanzas in Folk Songs

Folk songs are typically composed of repeating parts stanzas. To find such parts in audio recordings of folk songs, segmentation methods can be used that split a recording into separate parts according to different criteria. Most audio segmentation methods were developed for popular and classical music, however these do not perform well on folk music recordings. This is mainly because folk song...