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The Use of Computers in Folklore and Folk Music: A Preliminary
Bibliography
Compiled by: Evan Stein
Publication Date: October 4, 1979
Bartimiński, Jerzy.
"Komputery w Badaniach nad Pieśnia Ludowa." Literatura
Ludowa, volume 19, number 1, January-February 1975, pp.
54-56. Song analysis.
Beatty, Roger Dean.
"Computerlore: The Bit Bucket." New
York Folklore,
volume 2 numbers 3-4, Winter 1976, pp. 223-224. Survey of the
folklore of computers.
Bebbington, Brian.
"Folk Music and Computers." African
Music, volume 4,
number 2, 1968, pp. 56-58
Ben Amos, Dan.
"University of Pennsylvania Folklore Archives: A Progress
Report." Keystone Folklore Quarterly, volume 15, number
3, Fall 1970, pp. 148-157.
Boggs, Beverly.
"Analysis of Ethnomusicological Transcriptions." Computational
Musicology Newsletter, volume 1, number 1, October 1973, p. 14.
Abstract.
Bregenhøj, Carsten.
Jyde, Fynbo og Sjaellender: Foreløbig Rapport om Hulkortanalyse
af Anekdotesamlingen DFS 1966/1. Københaven: Dansk Foldemindesamling
and Nordisk Institut for Folkedigtning, 1969. Folktale analysis.
Bronson, Bertrand H.
"Mechanical Help in the Study of Folk Song." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 62, number 244, April-June 1949,
pp. 81-86.
"Toward the Comparative Analysis of British-American Folk
Tunes." Journal of American Folklore, volume 72, number
284, April-June 1959, pp. 165-191.
The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. Four volumes, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1959-1972. Major collection in which
the use of computers played a significant role.
Callow, James T.
Folkstore One. Detroit: University of Detroit, Computerized
Folklore Archive, 1977.
Catalán, Diego.
"Análisis Electrónico de la Creación Poética Oral: El Programa
Romancero en el Computer Center de UCSD." In Homenaje
a la Memoria de Don Antonio Rodriguez-Moñino: 1910-1970,
Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1975, pp. 157-194.
Cohen, Norman.
"Computerized Hillbilly Discography: The Gennett Project." Western
Folklore, volume 30, number 3, July 1971, pp. 182-193.
Colby, Benjamin N.
"The Analysis of Culture Content and the Patterning of Narrative
Concern in Texts." American Anthropologist, volume 68, number
2, April 1966, pp. 374-388.
"Cultural Patterns in Narratives." Science, volume
151, number 3711, February 11, 1966, pp. 793-798.
Colby, Benjamin N., George A. Collier and Susan K. Postal.
"Comparison of Themes in Folktales by the General Inquirer
System." Journal of American Folklore, volume 76, number
302, October-December 1963, pp. 318-323.
Csébfalvy, K. and M. Havass.
"A Direct Computer Processing of Folk Tunes." Computational
Linguistics, volume 9, 1965, pp. 125-129.
Csébfalvy, K. et al.
"Systematization of Tunes by Computers." Studia
Musicologica,
volume 7, numbers 1-4 (Journal of the International
Folk Music Council, volume 17, part 2), 1965, pp. 253-257.
Czekanowska-Kuklińska, Anna.
"Polish Mathematical Methods in Classification of Slavic
Folk Song." In Report of the Tenth
Congress of the International Musicological Society, edited by Dragotin Cvetko, Ljubljana:
University of Ljubljana, 1970, pp. 440-443.
Dundes, Alan.
"On Computers and Folktales." Western
Folklore, volume
24, number 3, July 1965, pp. 185-189.
Elschek, Oskár, ed.
Hudobná Klasifikácia Ă Samočinne Počitače:
Predbežná Zprára 6.
Etnomuzikologického Seminára [Music Classification
and Electronic Data Processing]. Bratislava: Slovenska Akademia
Vied, 1976. Abstracts in Slovak, German and English.
"L'udová Pieseń a Samočinny Počítač 2:
Druhý Seminár o
Využití Samočinných Počítačoy
pri Štúdiu L'udových Piesní: Bratislava
16.-17. OKtóber 1973" [Folksongs and the Computer:
Seminar in Bratislava 16-17 October 1976]. Musicologica
Slovaca,
volume 6, 1978, pp. 163-165. Followed by numerous articles and
reports by various authors.
Elscheková, Alica.
"General Considerations on the Classification of Folk Tunes." Studia
Musicologica, volume 7, numbers 1-4 (Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 17, part 2), 1965, pp. 259-262.
"Methods of Classifications of Folk Tunes." Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 18, 1966,
pp. 56-76.
"Technologie der Datenverarbeitung bei der Klassifizierung
von Volksliedern." In Methoden der
Klassifikation von Volksliedweisen,
edited by Oskár Elschek and Doris Stockmann, Bratislava: Slovenská Akadémia Vied, 1969, pp. 93-122.
Ferentzy, E. N. and M. Havass.
"Human Movement Analysis by Computer, Electronic Choreography
and Music Composition." Computational
Linguistics, volume
3, 1964, pp. 129-188.
Gailey, Alan.
"Proposals for Indexing Folk Material." Museums
Journal,
volume 67, number 2, September 1967, pp. 107-108.
Georges, Robert A., Beth Blumenreich and Kathie O'Reilly.
"Two Mechanical Indexing Systems for Folklore Archives." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 87, number 343, January-March 1974,
pp. 39-52.
Grauer, Victor A.
"Some Song-Style Clusters—A Preliminary Study." Ethnomusicology,
volume 9, number 3, September 1965, pp. 265-271.
Halmós, Istvan.
"Automation of Analysis and Classification of Folk Tunes,
Experiment 1: Comparison Note by Note." Computational
Linguistics,
volume 9, 1970, pp. 59-71.
"Automation of Analysis of Folk Tunes. Part One: Comparison
Note by Note." Computational Musicology
Newsletter, volume
1, number 1, October 1973, p. 15. Abstract.
Henderson, Michael M. T.
"Use of and Interactive Program in Analyzing Data for a
Dialect Dictionary." Computers and
the Humanities, volume
9, number 3, May 1975, pp. 105-113.
Hickerson, Joseph C.
"Computer Machine-Readable Cataloging at the Archive of
Folk Song—Library of Congress: Summary of the Feasibility
Study Report." Association for Recorded
Sound Collection Journal, volume 1, number 4, Summer 1969, pp. 8-9. Reprinted
in Computational Musicology Newsletter, volume 1, number 1, October
1973, p. 20.
Holbek, Bengt.
"Computer Classification of Proverbs: Report on a Small
Scale Experiment." Proverbium, volume 14, 1969, pp. 372-376.
Hood, Mantle and Fredric Lieberman.
"Improvisation and Music Theory of the Javanese Gamelan." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 2, number 2, November 1967, p. 88.
Abstract.
Hoshovs'kyj. V.
"The Experiment of Systematizing and Cataloguing Folk Tunes
Following the Principles of Musical Dialectology and Cybernetics." Studia
Musicologica, volume 7, numbers 1-4 (Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 17, part 2), 1965, pp. 273-286.
Járdányi, P.
"Experiences and Results in Systematizing Hungarian Folk
Songs." Studia Musicologica, volume 7, numbers 1-4 (Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 17, part 2),
1965, pp. 287-291.
Jason, Heda.
"Volkskunde und Computer: Eine Auseinandersetzung." Österreichische
Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, volume 25, number 3, 1971, pp. 201-216.
John,
Robert W.
"A Pilot Computer Catalog of Early American Shape-Note Hymn
Tunes." Computers and the Humanities, volume 4, number 5,
May 1970, p. 345. Abstract.
Kagan, Alan L.
"Computerized Analysis and Classification of Asian Musical
Style." Computers and the Humanities, volume 4, number 5,
May 1970, p. 347. Abstract.
"Materials of Asian Performing Arts: Interim Manual I:
Description, Classification and Location." Chinoperl
News,
number 1, August 1969, pp. 31-37.
Materials of Asian Performing Arts Computerized:
Manual I. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Department of Music, 1969.
Kalin, Rudolph, William N. Davis and Davie C. McClelland.
"The Relationship Between Use of Alcohol and Thematic Content
of Folktales in Primitive Societies." In the General
Inquirer: A Computer Approach to Content Analysis, edited by Philip J.
Stone et al., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966, pp. 569-588.
Klein, Sheldon et al.
Modelling Propp and Levi-Strauss in a Meta-Symbolic
Simulation System. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Computer Sciences
Department, 1974. (Technical Report no. 226.)
Kluge, Reiner.
"Faktorenanalytische Typenbestimmung an Einstimmigen Volksmelodien." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 2, number 2, November 1967, p. 88.
Abstract.
Faktorenanalytische Typenbestimmung an
Volksliedmelodien. Leipzig:
Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1974.
Knudson, Thorkilk, and Poul Rovsing Olsen.
"The Musicological Section of the Danish Folklore Archives." Folklore
and Folk Music Archivist, volume 7, number 3, Fall 1964, pp.
45-65.
Leino, Pentti.
"A Computer for the Paremiologist?" Proverbium, volume
14, 1969, pp. 377-379.
Lieberman, Fredric.
"Computer-Aided Analysis of Javanese Music." In The
Computer and Music, edited by Harry B. Lincoln, Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1970, pp. 182-192.
Locke, Eleanor G.
"!G !K2- !M3:4 (2E.U(0)): Folk Song Research and Computer
Science." Kodály Envoy, volume 3, number 3, December 1976,
pp. 2-4.
Lomax, Alan.
"Africanisms in New World Negro Music." In The
Haitian Potential: Research and Resources of Haiti, edited by Vera Rubin
and Richard P. Schaedel, New York: Teachers College Press, 1975,
pp. 38-53.
"Brief Progress Report: Cantometrics-Choreometrics Projects." Yearbook
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 4, 1972, pp.
142-145.
Folk Song Style and Culture. Washington, D.C.: American Association
for the Advancement of Science, 1969.
"The Good and the Beautiful in Folksong." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 80, number 317, July-September 1967,
pp. 213-235.
"The Homogeneiety of African-Afro-American Musical Style." In
Afro-American Anthropology, edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.,
and John F. Szwed, New York: Free Press, 1970, pp. 181-201.
"Song Structure and Social Structure." Ethnology,
volume 1, number 4, October 1962, pp. 425-451. Reprinted in Readings
in Ethnomusicology, edited by David P. McAllester, New York:
Johnson Reprint Corp., 1971, pp. 227-252; also in The
Sociology of Art and Literature, edited by Milton C. Albrecht, James H.
Barnett and Mason Griff, New York: Praeger, 1970, pp. 55-71.
"Special Features of the Sung Communication." In Essays
on the Verbal and Visual Arts: Proceedings of the 1966 Annual
Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, edited by
June Helm, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967, pp.
109-127.
Lomax, Alan and Joan Halifax.
"Folksong Texts as Culture Indicators." In Structural
Analysis of Oral Tradition, edited by Pierre and Elli Köngäs
Maranda, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971,
pp. 235-267.
Lomax, Alan, Irmgard Barteniefe and Forrestine Paulay.
"Choreometrics: A Method for the Study of Cross-Cultural
Pattern in Film." Research Film, volume 6, number 6, December
1969, pp. 505-517. Reprinted in CORD Research
Annual, volume
6, 1974, pp. 193-212.
McLeish, John.
"Children's Superstitions: A Comparative Study of English
and Canadian Beliefs." In Man: Anthropological
Essays Presented to O. F. Raum, edited by E. J. DeJager, Cape Town: C. Struik,
1971, pp. 35-52.
Maranda, Elli Köngäs.
"Theory and Practice of Riddle Analysis." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 84, number 331, January-March 1971,
pp. 51-61 Reprinted in Toward New Perspectives
in Folklore, edited
by Américo Paredes and Richard Bauman, Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1972, pp. 51-61.
Maranda, Pierre.
"Analyse Quantitative et Qualitative de Mythes sur Ordinateur." In
Calcul et Formalisation dans les Sciences
de l'Homme, edited
by J. C. Gardin and B. Jaulin, Paris: Editions du Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique, 1968, pp. 79-86.
"Computers in the Bush: Tools for the Automatic Analysis
of Myths." In Essays on the Verbal
and Visual Arts: Proceedings of the 1966 Annual Spring Meeting
of the American Ethnological Society, edited by June Helm, Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1967, pp. 77-83.
"Formal Analysis and Inter-Cultural Studies." Social
Science Information, volume 6, number 4, August 1967, pp. 7-36.
"Lecture Mecanographique des Mythes." Social
Science Information, volume 6, number 5, October 1967, pp. 219-222.
"Queries from the Desk: A Computerized Analysis." In
Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition, edited by Pierre
and Elli Köngäs Maranda, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1971, pp. 301-312.
Ojo Arewa, E.
"The Use of the Computer for Bibliographic Research in African
Folklore." Research in African Literatures, volume 3, number
1, Spring 1972, pp. 51-53.
Orth, Donald J.
"Place Names and Computers: A New Challenge." Indiana
Names, volume 2, number 1, Spring 1971, pp. 2-12.
Petofi, J. S.
"On the Linear Patterning of Verbal Works of Art." Computational
Linguistics, volume 8, 1969, pp. 37-64.
Petöfi, J. S. and É. Szöllösy.
"Computers and Folklore Research." Computational
Linguistics,
volume 8, 1969, pp. 65-70.
Preston, Michael J.
"The British Folk Plays and Thomas Hardy: A Computer-Aided
Study." Southern Folklore Quarterly, volume 41, 1977, pp.
159-182.
"Computers in Folklore." Tennessee
Folklore Society Bulletin, volume 43, number 1, March 1977, pp. 14-22.
Reaver, J. Russell.
"Some Problems in the Comparative Study of Tall Tales." North
Carolina Folklore, volume 15, number 1, May 1967, pp. 6-8.
Rhodes, Willard.
"The Use of the Computer in the Classification of Folk Tunes." Studia
Musicologica, volume 7, numbers 1-4 (Journal
of the International Folk Music Council, volume 17, part 2), 1965, pp. 339-343.
Richard, P.
"Folklore." Computers and the
Humanities, volume 6,
number 5, May 1972, p. 319. Abstract.
Rosenberg, Bruce A. and John B. Smith.
"The Computer and the Finnish Historical-Geographical Method." Journal
of American Folklore, volume 87, number 344, April-June 1974,
pp. 149-154.
Rubin, Gerald M.
"Computer-Produced Mapping of Dialectal Variation." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 4, number 4, March 1970, pp. 241-246.
Sackett, Samuel J.
"Using a Computer on a Belief Collection." Western
Folklore, volume 29, number 2, April 1970, pp. 105-110.
Sánchez Romeralo, Antonio.
El Villancico: Estudios Sobre la Lírica Popular en
los Siglos XV y XVI. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1969. Computer-assisted
study.
Scherrer, Deborah K. and Philip H.
"An Experiment in the Computer Measurement of Melodic Variation
in Folksong." Journal of American Folklore, volume 84, number
332, April-January 1971, pp. 230-241.
Sebeok, Thomas A.
"Approaches to the Analysis of Folksong Texts." Ural-Altaische
Jahrbücher, volume 31, 1959, pp. 392-399.
"The Computer as a Tool in Folklore Research." In
The Use of Computers in Anthropology, edited by Dell Hymes, The
Hague: Mouton, 1965 (Studies in General Anthropology, volume
2), pp. 255-272.
Shamos, Michael Ian.
"Computer Investigation of Highland Bagpipe Music." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 5, number 5, May 1971, pp. 311-312.
Abstract.
Shaw, David.
"Statistical Analysis of Dialectal Boundaries." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 8, number 3, May 1974, pp. 173-177.
Smith, P. S.
"Computers and the Folklorist." Lore
and Language,
volume 2, number 8, January 1978, pp. 29-30.
Steinbeck, Wolfram.
"Die Liederbank Kiel." Jahrbuch
des Staatlichen Institute für Musikforschung Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, 1976 (1977), pp.
94-108.
"The Use of the Computer in the Analysis of German Folksongs." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 10, number 5, September-October 1976,
pp. 287-296.
"Zur Methodik der Analyse Deutscher Volkstümlicher
Lieder mit Hilfe Elektronischer Rechenanlagen." In Beiträge
zur Musikgeschichte Nordeuropas: Kurt Gudewell zum 65. Geburtstag,
edited by Uwe Haensel, Wolfenbuttel: Möseler Verlag, 1978,
pp. 323-341.
Šrámkova, Marta.
"Pokus o Strojové Zpracování Baladického
Typu" [Experimental
Cataloguing of Ballads by Computers]. Slovenský Národopis,
volume 21, number 2, 1973, pp. 217-226.
Stockmann, Doris.
"Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Ethnologie und den
ihr nahestehenden Wissenschaften." Deutsches
Jahrbuch für Volkskunde, volume 15, number 1, 1969, pp. 134-158.
Suchoff, Benjamin.
"A Bartóki Népzenekutatás és
az Elektronikus Számítógépek" [Bartók's
Music Research and the Electronic Computer]. Muzsika,
volume 13, number 7, July 1970, pp. 6-8; number 8, August 1970,
pp. 4-6.
"Aplicarea Calculatoarelor Electronice la Etnomuzicologica
Bartokiană." Muzika, volume 20, number 11, November 1970,
pp. 10-14.
"An Application of GRIPHOS to Bartok's Turkish Folk Music
Materials." Computational Musicology
Newsletter, volume
1, number 1, October 1973, p. 18. Abstract.
"Bartók, Ethnomusicology and the Computer." Newsletter
of the NYU Institute for Computer Research in the Humanities,
volume 4, number 4, December 1968, pp. 3-6.
"The Computer and Bartok Research in America." Journal
of Research in Music Education, volume 19, number 1, Spring 1971,
pp. 3-16.
"Computer Applications to Bartók's Serbo-Croatian Material." Tempo,
volume 80, 1967, pp. 15-19.
"Computer Applications to Béla Bartók's Serbo-Croatian
Material." Computers and the Humanities, volume 2, number
2, November 1967, p. 88. Abstratct.
"Computer-Oriented Comparative Musicology." In The
Computer and Music, edited by Harry B. Lincoln, Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1970, pp. 193-206.
"Computerized Folk Song Research and the Problem of Variants." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 2, number 4, March 1968, pp. 155-158.
A GRIPHOS Application of Bartók's Turkish Folk Music
Material.
Stony Brook: Center for Contemporary Arts and Letters, S.U.N.Y.
at Stony Brook, 1975.
"Lexicographical Index of Maramures Vocal Melodies." In
Rumanian Folk Music, volume 5, by Béla Bartók,
edited by Benjamin Suchoff, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975,
pp. 270-294.
"Lexicographical Index of Melodies." In Rumanian
Folk Music, volume 4, by Béla Bartók, edited by Benjamin
Suchoff, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975, pp. 550-601.
"Lexicographical Index of Turkish Melodies." In Turkish
Folk Music from Asia Minor, by Béla Bartók, edited by
Benjamin Suchoff, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976,
pp. 271-279.
"Some Problems in Computer-Oriented Bartókian Ethnomusicology." Ethnomusicology,
volume 13, number 3, September 1969, pp. 489-497.
"Unele Probleme Privind Folosirea Maşinilor Electronice
de Calcul la Materialul Etnomuzicologie al lui Béla Bartók." Revista
de Etnografie şi Folclor, volume 14, number 5, 1969, pp. 343-352.
Thill, Richard S.
A Basic System for Creation and Processing
of a Folklore Archive.
Bloomington: Indiana University, Folklore Publications Group,
November 1978. (Folklore Preprint Series, volume 6, number
7, November 1978.)
"A Bibliography of Materials Relevant to Folklore and Technology." Keystone
Folklore, volume 18, number 4, Winter 1973, pp. 197-199. Reprinted
in Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, volume 40, number 1,
March 1974, pp. 8-9. An announcement and request for contributions.
"A Rose by Any Other Name: Computers, Traditions, and the
Folklorist." Tennessee Folklore Society
Bulletin, volume
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Vikis-Freibergs, Vaira and Inants F. Freibergs.
"Formulaic Analysis of the Computer-Accessible Corpus of
Latvian Sun-Songs." Computers and the
Humanities, volume
12, number 4, 1978, pp. 329-339.
"The Sun-Songs of Latvian Folklore: A Computer-Accessible
Corpus." Journal of Baltic Studies, volume 9, number 1,
Spring 1978, pp. 20-31.
Voigt, Vilmos.
"Means and Aims of Computer Folklore Research." In
Papers in Computational Linguistics, edited by Ferenc Papp and
György Szépe, Budapest: Akademai Kiadó, 1976, pp. 549-554.
Wenker, Jerome.
"An Analysis of Transcriptions." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 7, number 2, November 1972, p. 126. Abstract.
"An Analytical Approach to Folk Music." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 4, number 2, November 1969, p. 138;
volume 7, number 2, November 1972, pp. 124-125.
A Computational Method for the Analysis
of Anglo-American Folksongs.
Unpublished MA Thesis, Bloomington: Indiana University, 1964.
"A Computer Oriented Music Notation Including Ethnomusicological
Symbols." In Musicology and the Computer:
Musicology 1966-2000,
edited by Barry S. Brook, New York: City University of New York
Press, 1970, pp. 91-129.
"A Music Compiler for Musicologists and Ethnomusicologists." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 7, number 2, November 1974, p. 124.
Abstract.
"MUSTRAN II—An Extended MUSic TRANslator." Computers
and the Humanities, volume 7, number 2, November 1972, p. 125.
Abstract.
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