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“The Times They Were A-Changin’”: A Database-Driven Approach to the Evolution of Harmonic Syntax in Popular Music from the 1960s.
- Source :
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Empirical Musicology Review . 2015, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p215-238. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The goal of this research is to investigate the pitch structures of popular music in the 1960s through a large corpus study in order to identify any consistent changes in harmonic and tonal syntax. More specifically, two studies based on the Billboard DataSet (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011; Burgoyne, 2011), a new corpus presenting transcriptions for more than 700 songs, are presented. The first study looks at the incidence of multi-tonic songs throughout the decade, while the second study focuses on the incidence of flat-side harmonies (e.g. bIII, bVI, and bVII) over the same period of time. While no difference was observed in the frequency of multi-tonic songs, the study showed a significant increase in the incidence of flat-side harmonies during the second half of the decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MUSICAL pitch
*HARMONY in music
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15595749
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Empirical Musicology Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112045721