Towards a systematic exploration of motif development in Arab-Andalusian Music

Authors: Oriol Colomé i Font & Satyajeet Prabhu
Affiliation: SMC 2023-24. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

This repository contains the original code used to analyze the scores for ṭab‘ Iraq-al-ayam as described in the research paper of the same title as above.
Requirements : pip install numpy matplotlib music21 pandas

• The Python notebook can be run to analyze individual MusicXML scores in the 'scores' folder.
• The plots generated in the notebook for each score are also provided in the 'plots' folder.
• The identified motifs are also color-annotated in the scores and can be viewed in a music score editor such as Musescore.

For any questions, the authors can be reached at

• [email protected]
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