The Use of the Bilingual Set “Sign-Note” for Disclosing Invariant Structural Units of the Znamenny Chant

Main Article Content

Irina V. Bakhmutova
Vladimir D. Gusev
Tatiana N. Titkova

Abstract

The authors develop a new computer-based approach towards
solving the problem of staff-notation reconstruction (deciphering)
of early Russian znamenny chants. It is based on disclosing in the
texts of Dvoyeznamenniks of chains of signs, univocal or with
admissible deviations in interpretations in a concrete glas (chant).
The algorithm of extraction and utilization of such chains for the
aim of deciphering musical manuscripts is developed. On the basis
of an extensive study material there are electronic dictionaries
for invariants and quasi-invariants constructed in the format of
“znamya (sign) – note” for all 8 glasy of the dvoyeznamenny
chant. Experiments with the test materials have shown that already
at the present stage electronic dictionaries are already capable of
providing for an average of 60-70% of deciphering of the glasy.
The main merit of this approach is its directedness towards the
general case of non-pitch notation found in znamenny chant.

Keywords: Dvoyeznamenniks, staff-notation reconstruction,
non-pitch notation indication, inner-glas invariants, electronic
dictionary of the znamenny chant

Article Details

How to Cite
Bakhmutova, I. V., Gusev, V. D., & Titkova, T. N. (2015). The Use of the Bilingual Set “Sign-Note” for Disclosing Invariant Structural Units of the Znamenny Chant. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.2.19.005-011
Section
Horizonts of Musicology
Author Biographies

Irina V. Bakhmutova, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research assistant

Vladimir D. Gusev, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Candidate of Technical Sciences,
Senior research assistant

Tatiana N. Titkova, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Candidate of Technical Sciences, Research assistant

References

1. Bakhmutova I. V., Gusev V. D., Titkova T. N. O funktsiyakh ukazatel’nykh pomet (na materiale dvoznamennika XVIII veka) [On the Functions of the Indicative Marks (based on the Material of the Dvoyeznamennik from the 18th Century)]. Sibirskiy muzykal’nyy al’manakh [The Siberian Music Almanac]. Novosibirsk, 2002, pp. 81–92.
2. Bakhmutova I. V., Gusev V. D., Titkova T. N. Faktory, vliyayushchie na tochnost’ notolineynoy rekonstruktsii pometnykh znamennykh pesnopeniy [The Factors Influencing the Accuracy of the Reconstruction of Notation of the Russian Znamennyi Marked Hymnals]. Sibirskiy muzykal’nyy al’manakh [Siberian Music Almanac]. Novosibirsk, 2004, pp. 51–59.
3. Bakhmutova I. V., Gusev V. D., Titkova T. N. Elektronnaya azbuka znamennogo raspeva: рredvaritel’naya versiya [The Electronic Alphabet of the Znamenny Chant: Preliminary Version]. Analiz strukturnykh zakonomernostey. Vychislitel’nyesistemy [Analysis of Structural Regularities. Computative Systems]. Novosibirsk, 2005, No. 174, pp. 29–53.
4. Bakhmutova I. V., Gusev V. D., Titkova T. N. Komp’yuternyy analiz i vosstanovlenie znamennoy sostavlyayushchey podborki V. M. Metallova. [A Computer-Based Analysis and Neumatic Reconstruction of the Znamenny Components of Metallov’s Set] Sibirskiy muzykal’nyy al’manakh [Siberian Music Almanac]. Novosibirsk, 2010, pp. 62–81.
5. Bakhmutova I. V., Gusev V. D., Titkova T. N. Komp’yuternyy poisk invariantnykh strukturnykh edinits znamennogo raspeva [A Computer-Based Search for the Invariant Structural Elements of the Znamenny Chant]. Problemy muzykal’noy nauki [Music Scholarship]. 2011, No. 1 (8), pp. 20–24.
6. Bakhmutova I. V., Gusev V. D., Titkova T. N. Vyyavlenie invariantov i kvaziinvariantov znamennogo raspeva s pomoshch’yu bilingv tipa ’znamya-nota’ [Disclosure of the Invariants and Quasi-Invariants of the Znamennyi Chant by Means of the “Neume-Note” Bilingual Dictionary]. ZONT– 2013: mat-ly Vseros. konf. [ZONT–2013: Presentations from the Russian Conference]. Novosibirsk, 2013. Vol. 1, pp. 27–35.
7. Brazhnikov M. V. Drevnerusskaya teoriya muzyki. Po rukopisnym materialam XV–VIII vekov [Early Russian Music Theory. Based on Manuscripts from the 15th–17th Centuries]. Leningrad: Muzyka Press, 1972. 424 p.
8. Brazhnikov M. V. Litsa i fity znamennogo raspeva [The Litsa and Fitas of the Russian Znamenny Chant]. Leningrad: Muzyka Press, 1984. 302 p.
9. Kutuzov B. P. Russkoe znamennoe penie [The Russian Znamenny Chant Singing]. Second Edition. Moscow: Andrey Rublev, 2008. 304 p.
10. Metallov V. M. Osmoglasie znamennogo raspeva (sbornik notolineynykh popevok) [The Osmoglasie of the Znamennyi Chan (Set of Notated Popevkas)]. Moscow, 1899. 50 p.