Music classification has been widely investigated in the past few years using a variety of machine learning approaches. In this study, a corpus of 3367 folk songs, divided into six geographic regions, has been created and is used to evaluate two popular yet contrasting methods for symbolic melody classification. For the task of folk song classification, a global feature approach, which summariz...

The State Public Historical Library of Russia is storing some significant 18th and 19th century Lithuanian publications related with Prussian Lithuania. They include a copy the first edition (1825) collection folk songs Dainos oder Litthauische Volkslieder (en. [lt. Songs] or Folk Songs) by Martin Ludwig Rhesa (1776–1840) which used to belong one reviewers this publication. On grounds provenien...

Türküler halkın içinde bulunduğu duygu ve durumları anlatan hece ölçüsü ile yazılıp halk ezgileri seslendirilen müzik türüdür. Türkülerde aşk, sevda, ayrılık, ölüm, gurbet, hastalık, kahramanlık gibi çok farklı konular işlenmektedir. Hayatın her anını kapsayan durum türkülerde yer alır. Bu bağlamda, kültürel birikimi barındıran türkülerin incelenmesi aslında bir toplumun yaşamının araştırılması...

Folk Song Lab uses interactive group sessions to explore different ways by which improvisation stimulates an attitude towards the song it is understood as a cognitive framework that recreated singer in performance moment. It takes its point of origin certain conceptual qualities found traditional folk and improvisation, stimulated using flow-inducing concepts (Csikszentmihalyi 1990. Flow: The P...