Documenting a song culture: the Dutch Song Database as a resource for musicological research

Kranenburg, P. van; Bruin, Martine de; Volk, Anja

doi:10.1007/s00799-017-0228-4

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“…Our research uses five metrically annotated poetry collections in normalized orthography, each of which concerns one language tradition: Czech [ 52 , 53 ], Dutch [ 54 ], English [ 55 ], German [ 56 , 57 ] and Russian [ 58 , 59 ]. These collections have disparate sources and vary in size, chronological scope, general composition principles and survivorship bias (the Russian corpus, for example, favors poems that were reprinted in 20th-century scholarly editions).…”

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Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

2022

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Recent advances in cultural analytics and large-scale computational studies of art, literature and film often show that long-term change in the features of artistic works happens gradually. These findings suggest that conservative forces that shape creative domains might be underestimated. To this end, we provide the first large-scale formal evidence of the association between poetic meter and semantics in 18-19th century European literatures, using Czech, German and Russian collections with additional data from English poetry and early modern Dutch songs. Our study traces this association through a series of unsupervised classifications using the abstracted semantic features of poems that are inferred for individual texts with the aid of topic modeling. Topics alone enable recognition of the meters in each observed language, as may be seen from the same-meter samples clustering together (median Adjusted Rand Index between 0.48 and 1 across traditions). In addition, this study shows that the strength of the association between form and meaning tends to decrease over time. This may reflect a shift in aesthetic conventions between the 18th and 19th centuries as individual innovation was increasingly favored in literature. Despite this decline, it remains possible to recognize semantics of the meters from past or future, which suggests the continuity in meter-meaning relationships while also revealing the historical variability of conditions across languages. This paper argues that distinct metrical forms, which are often copied in a language over centuries, also maintain long-term semantic inertia in poetry. Our findings highlight the role of the formal features of cultural items in influencing the pace and shape of cultural evolution.

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Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

2022

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“…[…] The main feature of the Dutch Song Database is the availability of collected references to occurrences of Dutch songs." Kranenburg et al (2019), S. 13. einmal mit Heinrich Albert zu sprechen -, welche "herrliche[n] vnd geistreiche [n] Compositiones aus Jtalien (welches billich die Mutter der edlen Music zu nennen) zu vns gelang[t]" sind.…”

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Liedkultur des 17. Jahrhunderts als Übersetzungskultur

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Springfeld

2021

Übersetzungskulturen Der Frühen Neuzeit

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ZusammenfassungIn our paper we analyse translations of Italian and French songs into German from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. The methods of translation employed range from a narrow focus on the words and music of the original song to free variation. Analysing the bimedial relationship of words and music is the principal focus of our study. We ask: What consequences does a translation have for the text-sound relationship? In the first part of the study, we develop a heuristic methodology that describes this phenomenon while taking into account the cultural context of each translation. In the second part, we put this model to the test by examining a prominent song collection: Heinrich Albert’s Arien oder Melodeyen (Königsberg, 1638–1650), which contains a large number of as yet unidentified French and Italian originals. Two case studies on the translation of an Air de Cour and an Italian aria, as well as reflections on the digital accessibility of song translation, conclude the paper.

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“…Over the last years, there has been an increasing interest of the MIR community in analyzing world music (Serra, 2014;Panteli, 2018), including traditional singing (van Kranenburg et al, 2019). A conceptually similar dataset to DCS in terms of recording methodology and utilized microphones is a set of multitrack field recordings of threevoice Georgian vocal music (Scherbaum et al, 2019).…”

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“…9 In summary, our annotated dataset has different musical and acoustical dimensions that open up a variety of research scenarios. Besides being a good basis for studying amateur choral singing, DCS constitutes a challenging scenario for various fundamental tasks in MIR such as automatic music transcription (Benetos et al, 2019), score-to-audio alignment (Thomas et al, 2012), and beat tracking (Zapata et al, 2014;Böck et al, 2019). Moreover, the close-up microphone signals as well as the available F0-trajectories and scores can serve as a baseline to research on (informed) source separation techniques (Cano et al, 2019(Cano et al, , 2014.…”

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Dagstuhl ChoirSet: A Multitrack Dataset for MIR Research on Choral Singing

Rosenzweig

Cuesta

Weiß

et al. 2020

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

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Choral singing is a central part of musical cultures across the world, yet many facets of this widespread form of polyphonic singing are still to be explored. Music information retrieval (MIR) research on choral singing benefits from multitrack recordings of the individual singing voices. However, there exist only few publicly available multitrack datasets on polyphonic singing. In this paper, we present Dagstuhl ChoirSet (DCS), a multitrack dataset of a cappella choral music designed to support MIR research on choral singing. The dataset includes recordings of an amateur vocal ensemble performing two choir pieces in full choir and quartet settings. The audio data was recorded during an MIR seminar at Schloss Dagstuhl using different close-up microphones to capture the individual singers' voices. In this article, we give detailed insights into all stages of creating DCS: recording process, data preparation, generation of annotations as well as development of suitable interfaces for publicly accessing and reusing the data. Furthermore, we demonstrate the potential of the dataset for MIR research by discussing case studies on choral intonation assessment and multiple fundamental frequency (F0) estimation.

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Documenting a song culture: the Dutch Song Database as a resource for musicological research

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

Semantics of European poetry is shaped by conservative forces: The relationship between poetic meter and meaning in accentual-syllabic verse

Liedkultur des 17. Jahrhunderts als Übersetzungskultur

Dagstuhl ChoirSet: A Multitrack Dataset for MIR Research on Choral Singing

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