The analysis of recorded audio sources has become increasingly important in ethnomusicological research. Such audio material may contain important cues on performance practice, information that is often lost in manually generated symbolic music transcriptions. As an application scenario, we consider in this paper a musically relevant audio collection that consists of three-voice polyphonic Georgian chants. As one main contribution, we introduce an interactive graphical user interface that provides various visual and acoustic control mechanisms for estimating fundamental frequency (F0) trajectories from complex sound mixtures.  We then apply this interface for determining F0 trajectories of sung pitches from the Georgian chant recordings and indicate how such F0 annotations can be used as basis for addressing important questions in Georgian music research.

Authors: Müller, Meinard; Rosenzweig, Sebastian; Driedger, Jonathan; Scherbaum, Frank
Affiliations: International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Universität Potsdam, Postdam, Germany(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference: 2017 AES International Conference on Semantic Audio (June 2017)
Paper Number: P2-7
Publication Date: June 13, 2017 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Semantic Audio
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