On the Virtuous and the Vexatious in an Age of Big Data

Huron, David

doi:10.1525/mp.2013.31.1.4

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“…Most measures or strategies to reduce one kind of error are often at the cost of increasing the likelihood of the other kind of error [78]. As Huron points out, using a large-scale dataset is the best way to minimize these two kinds of error [79]. The LFM-1b dataset was randomly sampled from all users on last.fm [27], and thus it does not suffer the problem of sampling bias [80].…”

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The relation of culture, socio-economics, and friendship to music preferences: A large-scale, cross-country study

Liu

Schedl

2018

PLoS ONE

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Music listening is an inherently cultural behavior, which may be shaped by users’ backgrounds and contextual characteristics. Due to geographical, socio-economic, linguistic, and cultural factors as well as friendship networks, users in different countries may have different music preferences. Investigating cultural-socio-economic factors that might be associated with between-country differences in music preferences can facilitate music information retrieval, contribute to the prediction of users’ music preferences, and improve music recommendation in cross-country contexts. However, previous literature provides limited empirical evidence of the relationships between possible cross-country differences on a wide range of socio-economic aspects and those in music preferences. To bridge this research gap, and drawing on a large-scale dataset, LFM-1b, this study examines the possible relationship between cross-country differences in artist, album, and genre listening frequencies as well as the cross-country distance in geographical, socio-economic, linguistic, cultural, and friendship connections using the Quadratic Assignment Procedure. Results indicate: (1) there is no significant relationship between geographical and economic distance on album, artist, and genre preferences’ distance at the country-level; (2) the cross-country distance of three cultural dimensions (masculinity, long-term orientation, and indulgence) is positively associated with both the album and artist preferences distances; (3) the between-country distance in main languages has a positive relationship with the album, artist, and genre preferences distances across countries; (4) the density of friendship connections among countries negatively correlates to the cross-country preference distances in terms of artist and genre. Findings from this study not only expand knowledge of factors related to music preferences at the country level, but also can be integrated into real-world music recommendation systems that consider country-level music preferences.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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The relation of culture, socio-economics, and friendship to music preferences: A large-scale, cross-country study

Liu

Schedl

2018

PLoS ONE

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“…I provide this information not to prove anything, per se; this sort of post-hoc manipulation goes against the basic premise of a p-value, i.e., making a hypothesis and then testing it. Huron (2013) warns specifically against relying too heavily on these sorts of inferences. Nonetheless, this result does suggest a research question that could be tested in future work: Do popular songs that include a smaller variety of chords more often involve modulation, and vice versa?…”

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Corpus Studies of Harmony in Popular Music: A Response to Gauvin

deClercq

2015

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This paper responds to the research presented in Léveillé Gauvin's paper on the evolution of harmonic syntax in popular music from the 1960s. I begin by situating the findings from his second study (on flat-side harmonies) within the context of my corpus work with David Temperley on harmony in popular music. Léveillé Gauvin's results are similar to ours, although some important differences are worth noting. I also provide an interpretation of the results from his first study (on modulation), which Léveillé Gauvin found to be inconsistent with his proposed hypothesis. Specifically, I conjecture that modulation and harmonic palette may be in balance with one another, in that listeners may prefer songs where harmonic content is at a medium level of complexity. Léveillé Gauvin's study also brings forth some basic issues with regard to harmonic encoding, in terms of both the subjectivity of the analytical process as well as the ease by which harmonic analyses are shared with and verified by other researchers.

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“…Given the wide range and large number of observations, we limited the number of statistical tests in order to minimize the problem of multiple tests. Nevertheless, even informal observations invite the problem of multiple tests (Huron, 2013). Given the sample size and the large number of observations made, correcting for multiple tests would be expected to result in few statistically significant observations.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Western Orchestration: Patterns through History

Chon

Huron

DeVlieger

2018

EMR

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Changes in instrument combination patterns in Western classical orchestral music are traced over a three hundred year period from 1701 to 2000. Using a stratified sample of sonorities from 180 orchestral works by 147 composers, various empirical analyses are reported. These include analyses of instrumentation presence, instrument usage, ensemble size, common instrument combinations, instrument clusterings, and their changes over time. In addition, the study reports associations of different instruments with various dynamic levels, different tempos, pitch class doublings, affinities between instruments and chord factors, as well as interactions between pitch, dynamics, and tempo. Results affirm many common intuitions and historical observations regarding orchestration, but also reveal a number of previously unrecognized patterns of instrument use.

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On the Virtuous and the Vexatious in an Age of Big Data

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

The relation of culture, socio-economics, and friendship to music preferences: A large-scale, cross-country study

The relation of culture, socio-economics, and friendship to music preferences: A large-scale, cross-country study

Corpus Studies of Harmony in Popular Music: A Response to Gauvin

An Exploratory Study of Western Orchestration: Patterns through History

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