Once the Densmore Project database has been fully assembled,
this web page will allow visitors to access several research
tools based on the
Humdrum Toolkit.
These tools will allow users to pose
and answer innumerable questions of which the following are only
a suggestive sample:
-
Are northwest native cultures more likely to use iambic rhythms?
-
Do dancers in Pueblo music turn more frequently than other dancers?
-
Are Na-Dene language groups more likely to employ rhyme schemes
in their poetic texts?
-
Do bi-labial plosives coincide with strong metric positions in warrior songs?
-
What features distinguish melodies sung by Nootka women compared with those
sung by Nootka men?
Examples of the use of Humdrum in
research projects are available for for
classical European music.
Such examples can be found on the
web at:
http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/projects.html.
Sample problems using the analytic software can be found at:
http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Humdrum/sample.problems.html.
An inventory of existing database repertories is given at:
http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/Music824/databases.index.html.
A prototype of the search engine can be found at:
http://themefinder.org
(for classical and folk musics).
One feature of the analytic tools will be
the ability to create special-purpose maps of North America
displaying the geographical distribution of musical
features.
A sample map-creating demonstration for European folksongs
can be found at
http://dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/Mapping/map.pl.
Refer to
coming soon
for detailed instructions on how to use this mapping interface.
|
|