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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFncneafovI&pp=ygULVEZuY25lYWZvdkk%3D The empirical research of a Georgian sound scale" by Z. Tsereteli and L. Veshapidze] (Video of a presentation from the IAML/IMS congress Music Research in the Digital Age, New York, 21-26 June 2015) (tuning essentially [[7edo]], but with occasional intentional pitch bending, called "shinfardi") | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFncneafovI&pp=ygULVEZuY25lYWZvdkk%3D The empirical research of a Georgian sound scale" by Z. Tsereteli and L. Veshapidze] (Video of a presentation from the IAML/IMS congress Music Research in the Digital Age, New York, 21-26 June 2015) (tuning essentially [[7edo]], but with occasional intentional pitch bending, called "shinfardi") | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxD6NB8-CI Georgian chant tuning (Malkhaz Erkvanidze demonstrates)] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxD6NB8-CI Georgian chant tuning (Malkhaz Erkvanidze demonstrates)] (2020) | ||
* [https://youtu.be/NWLbdwFeYrk Video on Georgian music theory] by [[Stephen Weigel]] (suggests the use of [[34edo]] notation) | * [https://youtu.be/NWLbdwFeYrk Video on Georgian music theory] by [[Stephen Weigel]] (suggests the use of [[34edo]] notation) (2026) | ||
** ''[https://archive.org/details/stephen-weigel-georgian-music-video-2026-transcript transcript (Archive.org)]'' | ** ''[https://archive.org/details/stephen-weigel-georgian-music-video-2026-transcript transcript (Archive.org)]'' | ||
Latest revision as of 17:05, 22 June 2026
Georgian folk music is well known for its traditional vocal polyphony. There is no clear consensus on the structure of the underlying scale or tuning system, except that it is heptatonic and close to equalized. It is sometimes claimed that their scales are based on equal divisions of the fifth, but this is hard to verify.
From a corpus analysis of field recordings by Scherbaum et al.[1], the following conclusions can be made:
- Fourths and fifths are close to just.
- Thirds tend to be neutral (around 350 ¢), as are sixths.
- Harmonic seconds are close to 9/8, while the melodic seconds are smaller (between 150 ¢ and 180 ¢).
The field recordings are available online with videos and recordings of individual singers in each group.
Videos
- The empirical research of a Georgian sound scale" by Z. Tsereteli and L. Veshapidze (Video of a presentation from the IAML/IMS congress Music Research in the Digital Age, New York, 21-26 June 2015) (tuning essentially 7edo, but with occasional intentional pitch bending, called "shinfardi")
- Georgian chant tuning (Malkhaz Erkvanidze demonstrates) (2020)
- Video on Georgian music theory by Stephen Weigel (suggests the use of 34edo notation) (2026)
Further reading
- Georgian polyphonic singing - intangible heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO
- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/tuning/conversations/messages/100326 Discussion on the Yahoo tuning list, June 2011
- Dicussion on Facebook, October 2016 - XA II - The music of Georgia (7edo vs. tetracot)
- r/GlobalMusicTheory's list of Georgian theory resources; many are academic/scholarly
References
- ↑ Scherbaum, F., Mzhavanadze, N., Rosenzweig, S., & Müller, M. (2022). Tuning Systems of Traditional Georgian Singing Determined From a New Corpus of Field Recordings. Musicologist 2022. 6 (2): 142-168. DOI: 10.33906/musicologist.1068947