Music information retrieval for Turkish music: problems, solutions and tools
Barış Bozkurt, Ali Cenk Gedik, M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu · 2009
This study discusses differences between Turkish music and Western music from an information retrieval perspective. It proposes use of frequency histograms for various music information retrieval applications: automatic tonic detection, makam classification, tuning analysis, theory-practice mismatch measurement. It announces a Matlab toolbox: Makam Toolbox 1.0 and a parametric database for Turkish music information retrieval research.