Infocolinda – An Inovative Way of Musical and Literary Analysis for Carols

This article presents a desktop application which purpose is to help ethnomusicologists, music specialists and researchers in managing better the possible results of a field folklore investigation. Because a field investigation in ethnomusicology, ethnology and ethnography domain generates a huge video or audio material, it can be extremely difficult and time spending for specialists to handle with it, to extract all the information needed, to organize and to make a specialized analysis for a report or for a specific study in a traditional manner. At the same time, computer programming and database practice can have a major impact on musical and literary analysis of folklore songs, especially when they are put together within an application. The purpose of this article is to suggest and to describe such a computer application.