Towards Structural Alignment of Folk Songs
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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 alignment of four groups of melodies that are variants of each other.
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