Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
cilt.1, sa.1, ss.1-158, 2024 (Hakemsiz Dergi)
An earlier study by our team involved the exploitation of "unique
melodic contour features" to check whether a selection of 4 Turkish art
music pieces and 4 Turkish folk music pieces from the 'Hicaz family'
were indeed categorized correctly makam-wise [Yarman et al., 2020, "An
Investigation of the Role of Diatonic Functions in the Seyir Phenomenon
of Turkish Makam Music: Case of 'Hicaz Family'", DYUMM conference
proceedings, 292-340]. We now deliver an overview of both TRT repertory
labellings and tagging efforts by 6 anonymized experts versus several
machine learning classifications with regards to 325 pieces pertaining
to makams falling under the so-called 'Hicaz family' denomination. Our
analysis is once again based on our novel "trigram melodic contour
information extraction procedure", where all of the pieces operated on
were transcribed according to the "SymbTR" symbolic representation
database. The findings gathered with respect to this area of research
seem to point to the fact that, say, Hicaz frequently blurs into kindred
makams such as Uzzal and Hümayun, and the success rate in correctly
determining a piece's makam never exceeds the level of about 75 percent
whatever the methodology used. It is suspected that something similar
must also be the case for makams of the 'Uşşak-Hüseyni family', and this
field awaits further investigation. We hence suggest a new theoretical
insight for identifying a piece of the repertory that is said to be in a
given makam but has characteristics of other makams as well,
particularly seeing as our extensive and prolonged enquiry turned out to
be inconclusive and the project died out as a result.