Analyzing and representing Transylvanian village music by using motion capture
Filippo Bonini Baraldi, Emmanuel Bigand, Thierry Pozzo · 2009
Techniques based on motion capture can be useful to analyze and transcribe a foreign musical system: Transylvanian village music. Two musical parameters were the object of study: rhythm and desynchronization between two performers, a violinist and a viola player. Results showed that rhythm is a local variant of the aksak system and is based on two duration units (S=short, L=long), which respect the formula 2/3<S/L<3/4. Performances are characterized by large deviations of the S/L ratio from period to period, which have an expressive function. Deviations are related to a swinging interpretation, consisting of a voluntarily desynchronization between the performers.