Scale Formations in Post-Tonal Music

Kostka, Stefan; Santa, Matthew

doi:10.4324/9781315229485-2

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“…In table 2, [VII is used to indicate the subtonic chord for major tonalities. By contrast, since in the minor ones the subtonic is part of the natural scale, VII is indicated instead-a chord typically used as dominant of the relative major (V/ III), as described by Kostka et al [29].…”

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Exploring emotions in Bach chorales: a multi-modal perceptual and data-driven study

Parada-Cabaleiro,

Batliner,

Zentner

et al. 2023

R. Soc. open sci.

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The relationship between music and emotion has been addressed within several disciplines, from more historico-philosophical and anthropological ones, such as musicology and ethnomusicology, to others that are traditionally more empirical and technological, such as psychology and computer science. Yet, understanding the link between music and emotion is limited by the scarce interconnections between these disciplines. Trying to narrow this gap, this data-driven exploratory study aims at assessing the relationship between linguistic, symbolic and acoustic features—extracted from lyrics, music notation and audio recordings—and perception of emotion. Employing a listening experiment, statistical analysis and unsupervised machine learning, we investigate how a data-driven multi-modal approach can be used to explore the emotions conveyed by eight Bach chorales. Through a feature selection strategy based on a set of more than 300 Bach chorales and a transdisciplinary methodology integrating approaches from psychology, musicology and computer science, we aim to initiate an efficient dialogue between disciplines, able to promote a more integrative and holistic understanding of emotions in music.

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Exploring emotions in Bach chorales: a multi-modal perceptual and data-driven study

Parada-Cabaleiro,

Batliner,

Zentner

et al. 2023

R. Soc. open sci.

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“…The key relationships in modulation can be either closely or distantly related depending on the distance between the original and new keys on the circle of fifths. By definition, closely related keys should have no more than one accidental difference in their key signatures, whereas keys that are not parallel 6 or closely related are said to be distantly related (Kostka, Payne, and Almén 2018). On the 'circle of fifths,' closely related keys are adjacent to each other, including both keys that are fifth apart and those in relative relationship.…”

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“…Another common practice when analyzing the musical form, in the Western tradition, is to examine the 'cadence.' Cadence in Latin means "falling," it is the harmonic goal a certain passage of music aims to achieve (Kostka et al 2018). Cadences serve as the indicators for the basic units in the musical structures.…”

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The musical language of Yuen Ren Chao: A cultural and empirical study of the modernization of Chinese music

Zou¹,

Wang²

2022

Journal of Chinese Linguistics

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In the Chinese art song repertoire, "How can I help but think of you" has long enjoyed enormous prestige since its publication in the 1920s. The song is memorable not only because of its innovative use of language by Liu Bannong in the lyrics but also because of the ingenious arrangement of tonalities, forms, and melodies by Chao Yuen Ren in the music. This essay will be devoted to a cultural and empirical analysis of the song, with the aim of understanding the efforts made by eminent scholars at the early stage of modernization of Chinese music and language. To this end, we will first explore how the lyrics are structured phonetically and syntactically. Tonal complexity and ambiguity in the music will then be analyzed, followed by the discussion of qǐ-chéng-zhuǎn-hé in the musical form. The pentatonicism embedded in the song and its relationship with what generally makes music "sound Chinese" will also be examined. In the

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Scale Formations in Post-Tonal Music

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Exploring emotions in Bach chorales: a multi-modal perceptual and data-driven study

Exploring emotions in Bach chorales: a multi-modal perceptual and data-driven study

The musical language of Yuen Ren Chao: A cultural and empirical study of the modernization of Chinese music

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