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Computer-Assisted Analysis of Field Recordings: A Case Study of Georgian Funeral Songs

Three-voiced funeral songs from Svaneti in North-West Georgia (also referred to as Zär) are believed to represent one of Georgia’s oldest preserved forms of collective music-making. Throughout a Zär performance, the singers often jointly and intentionally drift upwards in pitch. Furthermore, the singers tend to use pitch slides at the beginning and end of sung notes. As part of a study on interactive computational tools for tonal analysis of Zär, we compiled a dataset from the previously annotated audio material, which we release under an open-source license for research purposes.

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This is the accompanying website for the article "Computer-Assisted Analysis of Field Recordings: A Case Study of Georgian Funeral Songs" published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). If you publish results obtained using this data, please cite:

1. Sebastian Rosenzweig, Frank Schwerbaum, and Meinard Müller
   Computer-Assisted Analysis of Field Recordings: A Case Study of Georgian Funeral Songs
   ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 16(1): 1–16, 2023. Bibtex PDF Demo DOI

   @article{RosenzweigSM23_GeorgianFuneralSongs_ACM-JOCCH,
   author   = {Sebastian Rosenzweig and Frank Schwerbaum and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
   title    = {Computer-Assisted Analysis of Field Recordings: {A} Case Study of {G}eorgian Funeral Songs},
   journal  = {{ACM} Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage ({JOCCH})},
   volume   = {16},
   number   = {1},
   pages    = {1--16},
   year     = {2023},
   doi      = {doi.org/10.1145/3551645},
   url      = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3551645},
   url-pdf = {2023_RosenzweigSM_FuneralSongs_ACM-JOCCH_ePrint.pdf},
   url-demo = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2022-GeorgianMusic-Zaer}
   }

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