From Music Ontology Towards Ethno-Music-Onthology

Polina Proutskova, A. Volk, Peyman Heidarian, Gyorgy Fazekas

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionAcademicpeer-review

Abstract

This paper presents exploratory work investigating the suitability of the Music Ontology - the most widely used formal specification of the music domain - for modelling non-Western musical traditions. Four contrasting case studies from a variety of musical cultures are analysed: Dutch folk song research, reconstructive performance of rural Russian traditions, contemporary performance and composition of Persian classical music, and recreational use of a personal world music collection. We propose semantic models describing the respective do- mains and examine the applications of the Music Ontology for these case studies: which concepts can be successfully reused, where they need adjustments, and which parts of the reality in these case studies are not covered by the Mu- sic Ontology. The variety of traditions, contexts and modelling goals covered by our case studies sheds light on the generality of the Music Ontology and on the limits of generalisation “for all musics” that could be aspired for on the Semantic Web.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2020)
PublisherISMIR press
Pages923-931
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'From Music Ontology Towards Ethno-Music-Onthology'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this