Slovenian Folk Song Ballads 404 Slovenian folk song ballads with family themes, collected between the years 1819 and 1995. This dataset is an archive of the “Slovenian Folk Song Ballads” corpus (scores, measure maps, analyses, recordings, synchronizations, metadata). It provides both raw data and data for integration with the Dezrann music web platform: https://www.dezrann.net/explore/slovenian-folk-song-ballads. Family songs are folk song ballads, i.e., songs with relatively short but repetitive melodic sections through which the singer narrates a longer story through the lyrics. The melody and lyrics are known not to be fully dependent on each other, meaning, the same melody could be adapted for another lyric and vice versa. Thematically, they fall into the category of those that sing about family destinies, including several motifs from Slovenian, Slavic, and broader European themes. The content often focuses on describing the natural course of family life, from courtship to childbirth. The themes and motifs of family ballads (feudal, rural environment, the time of Turkish invasions, pilgrimages, etc.) revolve around socio-legal relations and both immediate and broader family matters in historical periods from which individual ballads originate. The collection of Slovenian folk song ballads contains transcribed field material collected by Slovenian ethnologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and various colleagues of Glasbenonarodopisni inštitut ZRC SAZU spanning from the years 1819 to 1995. Categorized thematically as family ballads, this collection features 404 folk songs, and includes the initial verse of the lyrics, extensive metadata, and musical analysis, encompassing contours, harmony, and song structure (melody and lyric) (see (Borsan et al., 2023) and (Borsan et al., under submission)). 23 of these songs have historical recordings. License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 Maintainers: Vanessa Nina Borsan vanessa@algomus.fr, Mathieu Giraud mathieu@algomus.fr References

(Borsan et al., submitted) https://dx.doi.org/10.57745/SINZFK https://www.algomus.fr/data

Dataset content

slovenian-folk-song-ballads.json. Main archive catalog, with metadata, as described on https://doc.dezrann.net/metadata score/: Scores measure-map/: Measure maps as defined by https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625136, analysis/: Analyses, in .dez format, as described on https://doc.dezrann.net/dez-format audio/: Audio recordings synchro/: Sychronizations between musical time and audio time, as described on https://doc.dezrann.net/synchro

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