TY - GEN
T1 - The romantext format
T2 - 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2019
AU - Tymoczko, Dmitri
AU - Gotham, Mark
AU - Cuthbert, Michael Scott
AU - Ariza, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 International Society for Music Information Retrieval. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Roman numeral analysis has been central to the Western musician's toolkit since its emergence in the early nineteenth century: it is an extremely popular method for recording subjective analytical decisions about the chords and keys implied by a passage of music. Disagreements about these judgments have led to extensive theoretical debates and ongoing controversies. Such debates are exacerbated by the absence of a public corpus of expert Roman numeral analyses, and by the more fundamental lack of an agreed-upon, computer-readable syntax in which those analyses might be expressed. This paper specifies such a standard, along with an associated code library in music21, and a preliminary set of example corpora. To frame the project, we review some of the motivations for doing harmonic analysis, some reasons why it resists automation, and some prospective uses for our tools.
AB - Roman numeral analysis has been central to the Western musician's toolkit since its emergence in the early nineteenth century: it is an extremely popular method for recording subjective analytical decisions about the chords and keys implied by a passage of music. Disagreements about these judgments have led to extensive theoretical debates and ongoing controversies. Such debates are exacerbated by the absence of a public corpus of expert Roman numeral analyses, and by the more fundamental lack of an agreed-upon, computer-readable syntax in which those analyses might be expressed. This paper specifies such a standard, along with an associated code library in music21, and a preliminary set of example corpora. To frame the project, we review some of the motivations for doing harmonic analysis, some reasons why it resists automation, and some prospective uses for our tools.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076722082
T3 - Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2019
SP - 123
EP - 129
BT - Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2019
A2 - Flexer, Arthur
A2 - Peeters, Geoffroy
A2 - Urbano, Julian
A2 - Volk, Anja
PB - International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Y2 - 4 November 2019 through 8 November 2019
ER -