“The Times They Were A-Changin’”: A Database-Driven Approach to the Evolution of Musical Syntax in Popular Music from the 1960s

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; Bu...

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Main Author: Hubert Léveillé Gauvin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2015-12-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i3.4467