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Quantitative analysis of the relationship between linguistic tones and melody in jingju using music scores

Title Quantitative analysis of the relationship between linguistic tones and melody in jingju using music scores
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2017
Conference Name 4th International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2017)
Authors Caro Repetto, R. , Zhang S. , & Serra X.
Pagination 41-44
Conference Start Date 28/10/2017
Conference Location Shanghai, China
Abstract When lyrics of tonal languages are set to music, the pitch contour of their linguistic tones has to agree to certain extent with the melodic contour in order to assure intelligibility. ŒThe relationship between the linguistic tones of the complex dialectal construct used in jingju (commonly known as Beijing or Peking opera) and its melody has been largely studied, but not de€finite consensus has been achieved among scholars. Aft‰er reviewing agreements and disagreements in the related literature, we present a fi€rst approach for the quantitative analysis of the relationship between linguistic tones and melody in jingju using a collection of music scores with tone category annotations for 7,283 syllables. We describe two statistical analyses performed in this collection regarding the melodic contour for each syllable and the pitch height relationship in 5,494 pairs of consecutive syllables. In the following discussion about the results we argue that they contribute to supporting claims from the literature and complementing others, although some limitations of the approach might nuance the con€dence of their validity.
preprint/postprint document http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32911
Final publication 10.1145/3144749.3144758
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