CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Symbolic Representation of Musical Chords: A Proposed Syntax for Text Annotations — Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005)
- Key
- harte2005-chord-syntax
- Authors
- Harte, Christopher; Sandler, Mark; Abdallah, Samer; Gómez, Emilia
- Issued
- 2005
- Type
- paper-conference
- Container
- Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005)
- Pages
- 66-71
Raw CSL JSON
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Claims
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Harte and colleagues noted that there was no standard methodology for chord annotation and that the lack of annotated databases made evaluating and comparing chord detection algorithms difficult.
"There is no standard methodology for chord annotation. When designing chord detection algorithms, the lack of annotated databases makes evaluation and comparison of results difficult."
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The syntax uses a single uppercase N to mark 'no chord', such as silence or untuned, possibly percussive material.
"An extra chord state denoted by a single uppercase N is also added to signify 'no chord' to mark silence or untuned, possibly percussive musical material."
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Shorthand quality labels such as C:min7 stand for explicit lists of degrees, in this case C:(b3,5,b7).
"Hence a C minor seventh chord could become: C:min7"
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In Harte and colleagues' syntax, the root note is written first, followed by a colon, a parenthesized list of chord degrees, and an optional bass note after a slash.
"The root note is written first followed by a colon (:) separator. A comma delimited list of the chord degrees is then written, contained by parentheses. Finally, an optional bass note may be added at the end after a forward slash character (/) if it is different to the root."
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