Contributing to New Musicological Theories with Computational Methods: The Case of Centonization in Arab-Andalusian Music

Contributing to New Musicological Theories with Computational Methods: The Case of Centonization in Arab-Andalusian Music. Nuttall, T., García-Casado, M., Núñez-Tarifa, V., Repetto, R. C., & Serra, X. In Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, pages 223–228, Delft, Netherlands, 2019.
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Arab-Andalusian music was formed in the medieval Islamic territories of Iberian Peninsula, drawing on local traditions and assuming Arabic influences. The expert performer and researcher of the Moroccan tradition of this music, Amin Chaachoo, is developing a theory, whose last formulation was recently published in La Mu-sique Hispano-Arabe, al-Ala (2016), which argues that centonization, a melodic composition technique used in Gregorian chant, was also utilized for the creation of this repertoire. In this paper we aim to contribute to Chaachoo's theory by means of tf-idf analysis. A highorder n-gram model is applied to a corpus of 149 prescriptive transcriptions of heterophonic recordings, representing each as an unordered multiset of patterns. Computing the tf-idf statistic of each pattern in this corpus provides a means by which we can rank and compare motivic content across nawabāt, distinct musical forms of the tradition. For each nawba, an empirical comparison is made between patterns identified as significant via our approach and those proposed by Chaachoo. Ultimately we observe considerable agreement between the two pattern sets and go further in proposing new, unique and as yet undocumented patterns that occur at least as frequently and with at least as much importance as those in Chaachoo's proposals.

@InProceedings{    nuttall.ea2019-contributing,
    author       = {Nuttall, Thomas and Garc{\'{i}}a-Casado, Miguel and
                   N{\'{u}}{\~{n}}ez-Tarifa, V{\'{i}}ctor and Repetto, Rafael
                   Caro and Serra, Xavier},
    year         = {2019},
    title        = {Contributing to New Musicological Theories with
                   Computational Methods: The Case of Centonization in
                   Arab-Andalusian Music},
    abstract     = {Arab-Andalusian music was formed in the medieval Islamic
                   territories of Iberian Peninsula, drawing on local
                   traditions and assuming Arabic influences. The expert
                   performer and researcher of the Moroccan tradition of this
                   music, Amin Chaachoo, is developing a theory, whose last
                   formulation was recently published in La Mu-sique
                   Hispano-Arabe, al-Ala (2016), which argues that
                   centonization, a melodic composition technique used in
                   Gregorian chant, was also utilized for the creation of
                   this repertoire. In this paper we aim to contribute to
                   Chaachoo's theory by means of tf-idf analysis. A highorder
                   n-gram model is applied to a corpus of 149 prescriptive
                   transcriptions of heterophonic recordings, representing
                   each as an unordered multiset of patterns. Computing the
                   tf-idf statistic of each pattern in this corpus provides a
                   means by which we can rank and compare motivic content
                   across nawabāt, distinct musical forms of the tradition.
                   For each nawba, an empirical comparison is made between
                   patterns identified as significant via our approach and
                   those proposed by Chaachoo. Ultimately we observe
                   considerable agreement between the two pattern sets and go
                   further in proposing new, unique and as yet undocumented
                   patterns that occur at least as frequently and with at
                   least as much importance as those in Chaachoo's
                   proposals.},
    address      = {Delft, Netherlands},
    booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music
                   Information Retrieval Conference},
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.3527784},
    keywords     = {music information retrieval},
    mendeley-tags= {music information retrieval},
    pages        = {223--228}
}

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