creators_name: Mauludy, Rolan
creators_name: Situngkir, Hokky
creators_id: rmd@compsoc.bandungfe.net
creators_id: hs@compsoc.bandungfe.net
type: techreport
datestamp: 2008-04-07 21:07:07
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:06
metadata_visibility: show
title: Musical Tradition in Megalithic Site of Indonesian Gunung Padang?
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-primat
subjects: percep-cog-psy
subjects: bio-evo
subjects: evol-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: stone-age, megalithic sites, CIanjur, Indonesia.  
abstract: The paper reports a possibilities of musical traditions of ancient civilization who built the sites discovered in Gunung Padang, West Java, Indonesia. Particular group of the stones in the megalithic site happens to have relatively high frequency that might have correspondence with standard western musical scale. From the samples recorded at the site, we do the power spectral analysis to have the dominant frequency within the audio and mapped the result to MIDI numbers. We showed that the obtained four notes interestingly have particular places in modern musical scale. 
date: 2008-03
date_type: published
institution: Bandung Fe Institute
department: Computational Sociology
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Mauludy, Rolan and Situngkir, Hokky  (2008) Musical Tradition in Megalithic Site of Indonesian Gunung Padang?  [Departmental Technical Report]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6004/2/2008-4b.pdf