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String-based methods for tonal harmony: A corpus study of Haydn's string quartets (2006.15411v1)
Published 27 Jun 2020 in cs.CL and cs.IR
Abstract: This chapter considers how string-based methods might be adapted to address music-analytic questions related to the discovery of musical organization, with particular attention devoted to the analysis of tonal harmony. I begin by applying the taxonomy of mental organization proposed by Mandler (1979) to the concept of musical organization. Using this taxonomy as a guide, I then present evidence for three principles of tonal harmony -- recurrence, syntax, and recursion -- using a corpus of Haydn string quartets.