Music in the Data - Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research.

List of contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Methodology: Corpus Analyses and Music Theory
Chapter 2 - What Is Style? An Essay
Chapter 3 - What Is Harmony? A Narrative
Chapter 4 - What Is Function? An Epistolary
Chapter 5 - What Is Meter? A Dialogue
Chapter 6 - What Is Musical Key? A Diatribe

About the author

Christopher White is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Summary

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher White
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032259239
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225923-9
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music