TY - GEN
T1 - AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF MUSIC: PERFORMANCE OF CANTILLATION SIGNS IN YEMENITE JEWISH TRADITIONAL CANTILLATION
AU - Ben-Shalom, Adiel
AU - Keshet, J.
AU - Yeger-Granot, Roni
N1 - Place of conference:Germany
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Jewish cantillation is a ritual chanting of readings from
the Hebrew bible in the synagogue services. The chants are written
using special signs or marks printed in the Hebrew Bible. The purpose
of the cantillation signs is to guide the chanting of the sacred texts
during public worship, and to clarify the syntactical structure of the
text while the specifics of the performance serve in addition as a
rehtorical device and as a commentary to the text itself, highlighting
important or affective points in the text. Musical analysis of the
cantillation requires a detailed estimation of the distributions of each
of the cantillation signs. This can be achieved by manual annotation of
the audio, but such a method is subjective and labor-intensive. Using
high-precision computational methods we developed a framework for
automatic extraction of cantilation signs performance from recordings
and we show an objective, automatic analysis of one of the cantillation
signs, Sof-Pasuq (end of verse). We show that using variations on
the finalis pitch, the reader divides the text into sections of coherent
meaning, and by doing so he provides some subjective interpretation
to the text. This finding is quite interesting because it demands an
exceptional memory for pitch on the part of the reader, as well as
presumably by the audience. We analyzed automatically two different
readers of the bible, and give quantitative comparison between their
chantings.
AB - Jewish cantillation is a ritual chanting of readings from
the Hebrew bible in the synagogue services. The chants are written
using special signs or marks printed in the Hebrew Bible. The purpose
of the cantillation signs is to guide the chanting of the sacred texts
during public worship, and to clarify the syntactical structure of the
text while the specifics of the performance serve in addition as a
rehtorical device and as a commentary to the text itself, highlighting
important or affective points in the text. Musical analysis of the
cantillation requires a detailed estimation of the distributions of each
of the cantillation signs. This can be achieved by manual annotation of
the audio, but such a method is subjective and labor-intensive. Using
high-precision computational methods we developed a framework for
automatic extraction of cantilation signs performance from recordings
and we show an objective, automatic analysis of one of the cantillation
signs, Sof-Pasuq (end of verse). We show that using variations on
the finalis pitch, the reader divides the text into sections of coherent
meaning, and by doing so he provides some subjective interpretation
to the text. This finding is quite interesting because it demands an
exceptional memory for pitch on the part of the reader, as well as
presumably by the audience. We analyzed automatically two different
readers of the bible, and give quantitative comparison between their
chantings.
UR - https://scholar.google.co.il/scholar?q=Automatic+analysis+of+music%3A+Performance+of+cantillation+signs+in+Yemenite+Jewish+traditional+cantillation&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - The 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM14)
ER -