Bach family

Emery, Walter; Wollny, Peter; Leisinger, Ulrich; Roe, Stephen

doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40023

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“…Within these chorale-based compositions, the so-called Bach chorales form a subset consisting of relatively simple four-voice settings of chorale melodies in a harmony-oriented style often described as 'Cantionalsatz' or 'stylus simplex'. Bach wrote most of these chorales as movements of large-scale works (cantatas, passions) when he was employed as a church musician in Weimar (1708-1717) and Leipzig (1723-1750) [30]. A corpus of Bach chorales consisting of 371 items was posthumously published by Bach and Kirnberger (1784-1787), but some more have been identified since.…”

Section: Case Study: Relating Harmony and Melody In Bach's Choralesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A geometrical distance measure for determining the similarity of musical harmony

Haas

Wiering

Veltkamp

2013

Int J Multimed Info Retr

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In the last decade, digital repositories of music have undergone an enormous growth. Therefore, the availability of scalable and effective methods that provide contentbased access to these repositories has become critically important. This study presents and tests a new geometric distance function that quantifies the harmonic distance between two pieces of music. Harmony is one of the most important aspects of music and we will show in this paper that harmonic similarity can significantly contribute to the retrieval of digital music. Yet, within the music information retrieval field, harmonic similarity measures have received far less attention compared to other similarity aspects. The distance function we present, the Tonal pitch step distance, is based on a cognitive model of tonality and captures the change of harmonic distance to the tonal center over time. This distance is compared to two other harmonic distance measures. We show that it can be efficiently used for retrieving similar chord sequences, and that it significantly outperforms a baseline string matching approach. Although the proposed method is not the best performing distance measure, it offers the best quality-runtime ratio. Furthermore, we demonstrate in a case study how our harmonic similarity measure can contribute to the musicological discussion of the melody and harmony in large-scale corpora.

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Section: Case Study: Relating Harmony and Melody In Bach's Choralesmentioning

confidence: 99%