1. Damien SAGRILLO 1 Zurich 9 July 2007

2. Towards an Atlas of Folksong Idioms EsAC (Essener Assoziativ Code) Analysis of Scottish Songs Atlas of (European) Folksong (Idioms) 2

3. 1 EsAC Helmut Schaffrath (1942-1994) EsAC for encoding & Essen software for analysing one part songs ICTM Study Group of Computer Aided Research http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/beta/stg/index.php?lcode=3&tcode=63 3 http://ulrich-franzke.de/seiten/schaffrath.html

4. EsAC Scottish song Todlen Hame, 1rst phrase ESSEN ANALYSIS SOFTWARE 1 statistics of intervals and degrees 2 statistics of rhythm and durations 3 phrasing, range, scales and number of phrases 4 order of accent tones and order of final tones of phrases 5 melodic contour, melodic and rhythmic structure 4 1 EsAC

5. Todlen Hame in ESAC and analysed by Essen Software 5 1 EsAC

6. 6 Todlen Hame

7. 2 PURPOSE Prospective Atlas of European Folksongs informing about geographical idioms Two main tracks 1 drawing melodic contours 2 distinguishing song structures 7

8. 8 Form analysis by Essen software 2 PURPOSE Todlen Hame

9. 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS Restrictions for this presentation and therefore the term “Towards” in the title 51 songs of Scotland 62 songs of Ireland 503 songs of Lorraine 615 songs of Luxembourg This is not a well balanced mass 9

10. 10 http://www.vysoketatry.com/mapy/europa/europa.gif 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS

11. 11 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS The length of the songs in phrases

12. 12 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS Main structures

13. 13 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS Range

14. Further caracteristics of Scottish songs 14 3 (EXPECTED) RESULTS the Scots snap dotted rhythms

15. 4 THE PROSPECTIVE ATLAS 15 The catalogue of melodic progression (1)

16. 16 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS The catalogue of melodic progression (2) digital version (1)

17. 17 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS The catalogue of melodic progression (3) digital version (2)

18. 4 THE SONG ATLAS showing a typical Scottish song: Nanny O 18 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

19. Nanny O 19 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

20. and showing a typical Luxembourgish song Eim Steffen 20 4 PROSPECTIVE ATLAS

21. 5 OUTLOOK thank you for your attention Damien Sagrillo 21