A cluster analysis of harmony in the McGill Billboard dataset

We set out to perform a cluster analysis of harmonic structures (specifically, chord-to-chord transitions) in the McGill Billboard dataset, to determine whether there is evidence of multiple harmonic grammars and practices in the corpus, and if so, what the optimal division of songs, according to th...

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Main Authors: Kris Shaffer, Esther Vasiete, Brandon Jacquez, Aaron Davis, Diego Escalante, Calvin Hicks, Joshua McCann, Camille Noufi, Paul Salminen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2020-07-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://emusicology.org/article/view/5576