The goal of this research is to investigate the evolution of musical practices in popular music in the 1960s through a large corpus study in order to identify any consistent changes in harmonic, tonal, and formal syntax. The discussion is twofold. First, I discuss the technical challenges associated with corpus studies, and I introduce the SUPERMan tool, a UNIX script I developed to overcome those challenges. Second, I present the results of three studies based on the Billboard DataSet (Burgoyne et al., 2011; Burgoyne, 2011), a new corpus presenting transcriptions for more than 700 songs. The first study looks at the incidence of multi-tonic songs throughout the decade, the second focuses on the incidence of flat-side harmonies (e.g. @III,...
The recent work “Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music ” [1] focuses on meas...
While approaches that had already established historical precedents – computer-assisted analytical a...
A corpus of 1878 recorded works of historic electronic music from 1950–1999 has been collated. This ...
The goal of this research is to investigate the pitch structures of popular music in the 1960s throu...
This paper considers aspects of form and texture in 20th-century American popular music using a corp...
This paper describes a new corpus of texture, timbre, and lyrical information within 20th century Am...
(c) 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attrib...
A survey of tonal and harmonic systems in late 20th-century pop/rock that revises the model in Walte...
Mauch, MacCallum, Levy, and Leroi (2015) carried out a large-scale study of changes in American popu...
For more than a decade, music information science and musicology have been at what Nicholas Cook has...
Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of ...
Tonality has been the cornerstone of Western music-theoretical discourse for centuries. This study a...
Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of ...
In this paper we theorize that there are specific musical features that contribute to a melody’s cha...
Abstract Tonal harmony is one of the central organization systems of Western music. This article ch...
The recent work “Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music ” [1] focuses on meas...
While approaches that had already established historical precedents – computer-assisted analytical a...
A corpus of 1878 recorded works of historic electronic music from 1950–1999 has been collated. This ...
The goal of this research is to investigate the pitch structures of popular music in the 1960s throu...
This paper considers aspects of form and texture in 20th-century American popular music using a corp...
This paper describes a new corpus of texture, timbre, and lyrical information within 20th century Am...
(c) 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attrib...
A survey of tonal and harmonic systems in late 20th-century pop/rock that revises the model in Walte...
Mauch, MacCallum, Levy, and Leroi (2015) carried out a large-scale study of changes in American popu...
For more than a decade, music information science and musicology have been at what Nicholas Cook has...
Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of ...
Tonality has been the cornerstone of Western music-theoretical discourse for centuries. This study a...
Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of ...
In this paper we theorize that there are specific musical features that contribute to a melody’s cha...
Abstract Tonal harmony is one of the central organization systems of Western music. This article ch...
The recent work “Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music ” [1] focuses on meas...
While approaches that had already established historical precedents – computer-assisted analytical a...
A corpus of 1878 recorded works of historic electronic music from 1950–1999 has been collated. This ...