Statistical Analysis of Harmony and Melody in Rock Music. Temperley, D. & de Clercq, T. Journal of New Music Research, 42(3):187–204, 2013.
Paper doi abstract bibtex We present a corpus of harmonic analyses and melodic tran- scriptions of rock songs. After explaining the creation and notation of the corpus, we present results of some explorations of the corpus data. We begin by considering the overall dis- tribution of scale-degrees in rock. We then address the issue of key-finding: how the key of a rock song can be identified from harmonic and melodic information. Considering both the distribution of melodic scale-degrees and the distribution of chords (roots), as well as the metrical placement of chords, leads to good key-finding performance. Finally, we discuss how songs within the corpus might be categorized with regard to their pitch organization. Statistical categorization methods point to a clustering of songs that resembles the major/minor distinction in common-practice music, though with some im- portant differences. 1.
@Article{ temperley.ea2013-statistical,
author = {Temperley, David and de Clercq, Trevor},
year = {2013},
title = {Statistical Analysis of Harmony and Melody in Rock
Music},
abstract = {We present a corpus of harmonic analyses and melodic
tran- scriptions of rock songs. After explaining the
creation and notation of the corpus, we present results of
some explorations of the corpus data. We begin by
considering the overall dis- tribution of scale-degrees in
rock. We then address the issue of key-finding: how the
key of a rock song can be identified from harmonic and
melodic information. Considering both the distribution of
melodic scale-degrees and the distribution of chords
(roots), as well as the metrical placement of chords,
leads to good key-finding performance. Finally, we discuss
how songs within the corpus might be categorized with
regard to their pitch organization. Statistical
categorization methods point to a clustering of songs that
resembles the major/minor distinction in common-practice
music, though with some im- portant differences. 1.},
doi = {10.1080/09298215.2013.839525},
issn = {17445027},
journal = {Journal of New Music Research},
keywords = {statistics},
mendeley-tags= {statistics},
number = {3},
pages = {187--204},
url = {http://davidtemperley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/temperley-declercq-jnmr.pdf},
volume = {42}
}
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