A Computer-Aided Methodology for the Analysis and Classification of British-Canadian Children's Traditional Singing Games

To structure a music education program in Canada based on the Hungarian model, Bartók's "grammatical principle" was adopted to define the musical characteristics of British-Canadian children's traditional songs. A computeraided methodology analyzed a sample of singing games from...

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Published in:Computers and the humanities 1988-01, Vol.22 (3), p.173-182
Main Author: Osborn, F. E. Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Childrens songs
Computer analysis
Folksongs
Melody
Music education
Music transcriptions
Musical meter
Musical phrases
Singing games
Sound pitch
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Summary:To structure a music education program in Canada based on the Hungarian model, Bartók's "grammatical principle" was adopted to define the musical characteristics of British-Canadian children's traditional songs. A computeraided methodology analyzed a sample of singing games from a personal collection to identify 4-phrase variants, and extracted and tabulated by phrasal position their common phrase patterns of equal length. Future programs will complete the phrase analysis and analyze other musical characteristics, grouping variants successively to determine the styles of the entire collection.
ISSN:0010-4817
1572-8412
DOI:10.1007/BF00118890