Towards a Unified Model of Chords in Western Harmony
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Título: | Towards a Unified Model of Chords in Western Harmony |
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Autor/es: | Hentschel, Johannes | Moss, Fabian C. | McLeod, Andrew | Neuwirth, Markus | Rohrmeier, Martin |
Palabras clave: | Western music | Chords | Harmony | Unified model |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos | Música |
Fecha de publicación: | 18-may-2022 |
Editor: | Universidad de Alicante |
Cita bibliográfica: | Hentschel, Johannes, et al. “Towards a Unified Model of Chords in Western Harmony”. In: Münnich, Stefan; Rizo, David (Eds.). Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021, 19–22 July, 2021 University of Alicante (Spain): Onsite & Online. Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 2022. ISBN 978-84-1302-173-7, pp. 143-149 |
Resumen: | Chord-based harmony is an important aspect of many types of Western music, across genres, regions, and historical eras. However, the consistent representation and comparison of harmony across a wide range of styles (e.g., classical music, Jazz, Rock, or Pop) is a challenging task. Moreover, even within a single musical style, multiple theories of harmony exist, each relying on its own (possibly implicit) assumptions and leading to harmonic analyses with a distinct focus (e.g., on the root of a chord vs. its bass note) or representation (e.g., spelled vs. enharmonic pitch classes). Cross-stylistic and cross-theory comparisons are therefore even more difficult, particularly in a large-scale computational setting that requires a common overarching representation. To address these problems, we propose a model which allows for the representation of chords at multiple levels of abstraction: from chord realizations on the score level (if available), to pitch-class collections (including a potential application of different equivalences, such as enharmonic or octave equivalence), to pitch- and chord-level functions and higher-order abstractions. Importantly, our proposed model is also well-defined for theories which do not specify information at each level of abstraction (e.g., some theories make no claims about harmonic function), representing only those harmonic properties that are explicitly included and inducing others where possible (e.g., deriving scale degrees from root and key information). Our model thus represents an important step towards a unified representation of harmony and its various applications. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation within the project “Distant Listening – The Development of Harmony over Three Centuries (1700–2000)” (Grant no. 182811). This project is being conducted at the Latour Chair in Digital and Cognitive Musicology, generously funded by Mr. Claude Latour. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/123678 |
ISBN: | 978-84-1302-173-7 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
Derechos: | Published in 2022 with Humanities Commons under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) license. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/123637 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Music Encoding Conference 2021 - Proceedings |
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