Journal Article

·2022

Examining transposed makams in Turkish music through machine learning: classification of Rengidil-Neveser and Ruhnevaz-Buselik pieces

M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu YTU , Esra Berkman YTU , Mehmet İlker Berkman

Journal of New Music Research

Abstract

AbstractThe concept of shad-makam is explored through an analysis of pieces in makams Rengidil and Ruhnevaz, to see whether these two are distinct structures or transposition of their antecedents; Neveser and Buselik. The analysis was performed using ML algorithms on features extracted from symbolic Turkish music data. The standard tuning and the shad-makam pieces transposed to the same pitch with original makam were examined. Falsely classified pieces were analysed qualitatively, to explain quantitative results. We determined that Rengidil is a transposed form of Neveser and should not be considered as a distinct makam. In contrast, Ruhnevaz is different from Buselik.KEYWORDS: Makam analysisTurkish musicmachine learningclassificationshad-makam Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Keywords

Turkish Artificial intelligence Computer science Contrast (vision) Pattern recognition (psychology) Natural language processing Linguistics Philosophy

Subject Areas

Music and Audio Processing ·Signal Processing ·Physical Sciences
Diverse Musicological Studies ·Music ·Social Sciences
Music Technology and Sound Studies ·Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ·Physical Sciences