Emotion Painting: Lyric, Affect, and Musical Relationships in a Large Lead-Sheet Corpus

How are lyrical emotions expressed in music? This paper explores the correlation between affect-carrying lyrics and musical features such as beat strength, duration, pitch height, consonance, and mode. Using computer-aided musicology software music21 and the NRC emotion lexicon, we conduct a corpus...

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Main Authors: Sun, Sophia H. (Author), Cuthbert, Michael Scott (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries, 2021-02-22T23:56:26Z.
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