Melodic contour representations in the analysis of children's songs

Christina Anagnostopoulou (1) , Mathieu Giraud (2) , Nick Poulakis (1)

1 Department of Music Studies, University of Athens
2 LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille

Children's songs is a particular musical genre related to folk music, with its own musical characteristics. This paper sets out to explore melodic contour in children's songs from seven different countries/nations across Europe. We look for distinctive contour patterns which differentiate the songs of each country. For pattern representation we use different viewpoints related to melodic contour, two of which also relying on beat information. Preliminary results are presented, and some initial observations regarding the patterns found, the representations used, and the genre as a whole, are discussed.

Mots clés: melodic contour; strong beats; children music; ethnomusicology

Domaines: Son [cs.SD]; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Christina Anagnostopoulou, Mathieu Giraud, Nick Poulakis. Melodic contour representations in the analysis of children's songs. 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, Jun 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.40-43. ⟨hal-00826427⟩