CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
When in Rome: A Meta-corpus of Functional Harmony — Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
- Key
- gotham2023-when-in-rome
- Authors
- Gotham, Mark; Micchi, Gianluca; Nápoles López, Néstor; Sailor, Malcolm
- Issued
- 2023
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Raw CSL JSON
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"DOI": "10.5334/tismir.165",
"URL": "https://transactions.ismir.net/articles/165",
"type": "article-journal",
"title": "When in Rome: A Meta-corpus of Functional Harmony",
"author": [
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"given": "Mark",
"family": "Gotham"
},
{
"given": "Gianluca",
"family": "Micchi"
},
{
"given": "Néstor",
"family": "Nápoles López"
},
{
"given": "Malcolm",
"family": "Sailor"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
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2023
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"container-title": "Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval"
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Claims
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The When in Rome meta-corpus gathers human-made, computer-encoded functional harmonic (Roman numeral) analyses into over 2,000 analyses of 1,500 distinct works, centred on the common-practice repertoire. Its authors reject the notion of analyses as ground truth, because analysis involves a high degree of subjectivity, and treat differences between analysts as a feature rather than a defect.
"‘When in Rome’ brings together all human-made, computer-encoded, functional harmonic analyses of music. This amounts in total to over 2,000 analyses of 1,500 distinct works. ... First, let us do away with the notion of a ‘ground truth’. ... Analysis necessarily involves a high degree of subjectivity and this comes out in the decisions made at all levels. ... Analysis is subjective, interpretative. As such, we should expect and even welcome differences of opinion ... This centres (as the bulk of existing corpora do) on the so-called ‘Common Practice’ of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and others."
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