Predicting Variation of Folk Songs: A Corpus Analysis Study on the Memorability of Melodies

We present a hypothesis-driven study on the variation of melody phrases in a collection of Dutch folk songs. We investigate the variation of phrases within the folk songs through a pattern matching method which detects occurrences of these phrases within folk song variants, and ask the question: do...

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Main Authors: Berit Janssen, John A. Burgoyne, Henkjan Honing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00621/full