Software-supported analysis of jazz improvisations
As part of a project called "Jazzomat" by Weimar musicologist Martin Pfleiderer, software can be obtained free of charge that can be used as a toolbox for analyzing monophonic melodies, especially jazz improvisations.
The so-called MeloSpySuite is a freely available stand-alone software toolkit that includes several command line programs for analyzing monophonic melodies, especially jazz improvisations.
Included is the Weimar Jazz Database, which currently contains more than 100 jazz solos by various musicians and styles. The solos have been annotated by experts in a MIDI-like format, with additional metrical information, chords, form parts and phrase subdivisions as well as comprehensive metadata on style, genre, tempo and rhythmic feel.
The software package also includes a version of the Essen Folk Song Collection with around 8000 folk songs from Central, Western and Eastern Europe. The release of a Jazzomat web application based on the MeloSpySuite is planned for the end of 2014.
Free download: jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de/download/
