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Four techniques have been proposed to solve the problems of transcribing complex polyphonic phenomena. All of them require, for one reason or another, that the investigator spend time in the field. The first is propounded by the American school following Mantle Hood, and is called performing. It involves learning how to play traditional music and using the knowledge acquired in this way to transcribe it. The second requires the kind of special technical equipment developed by A. M. Jones for his own use. The third involves the use of films, which may be either silent or synchronised with a sound track. These are subjected to frame-by-frame analysis. The fourth and last consists of a special use of conventional stereophonic sound recording equipment to obtain a measure of separation of the parts in the polyphonic whole.
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Four techniques have been proposed to solve the problems of transcribing complex polyphonic phenomena. All of them require, for one reason or another, that the investigator spend time in the field. The first is propounded by the American school following Mantle Hood, and is called performing. It involves learning how to play traditional music and using the knowledge acquired in this way to transcribe it. The second requires the kind of special technical equipment developed by A. M. Jones for his own use. The third involves the use of films, which may be either silent or synchronised with a sound track. These are subjected to frame-by-frame analysis. The fourth and last consists of a special use of conventional stereophonic sound recording equipment to obtain a measure of separation of the parts in the polyphonic whole.
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