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Computerized folk song research and the problem of variants

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  1. Béla Bartók,Rumanian Folk Music, ed. Benjamin Suchoff (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967), Vols. I–III, back portion of the dust cover.

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  2. This method is discussed by Harry B. Lincoln in his essay “Some Criteria and Techniques for Developing Computerized Thematic Indices,”Elektronische Datenverarbeitung in der Musikwissenschaft (Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1967), pp. 59–61.

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  3. For more details, see my essay “Computer-Oriented Comparative Musicology” inThe Computer and Music, ed. H. B. Lincoln (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, in preparation).

  4. Béla Bartók,Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), p. 17.

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  5. See his essay “Musicology and the Computer: The Thematic Index” inComputers in Humanistic Research, ed. Edmund A.Bowles (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1967).

  6. An explanation of this display appears in the present writer's essay “Computer Applications to Bartók's Serbo-Croation Material” inTempo (London), No. 80, Spring 1967, p. 16.

  7. Bartók,Rumanian Folk Music, I, 11.

  8. Ibid., II, 11.

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    Benjamin Suchoff (Curator)

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This essay is an outcome of his work in computer applications to Bartók's Serbo-Croatian folk music material, for which he received a research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1967.

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Suchoff, B. Computerized folk song research and the problem of variants. Comput Hum 2, 155–158 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02402485

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