Week 6 (19 Feb 2003): Chord Recognition

1. Student summaries of the class.

2. Examples:
   
   
   • "Minuet in G" by J.S. Bach [ SCORE: JPG | HTML (SIB) ]
   • "Variations WoO78" by Ludwig van Beethoven [ SCORE: JPG | HTML (SIB) ]

3. Chords
   
   
   • Types of triads
   • Inversions
   • Seventh chords
     
     
   • "Chord Recognition with Application in Melodic Similarity"
     by Adam Tee, David Cooper and Des McLernon (2002).
     In additional proceedings (online) of the 2nd ICMAI.

     ( Presentation by Erdem Unal -- PPT )

4. Chord Functions
   
   
   • How to identify a chord's function?
     
     
   • Comments on last week's reading
     "Linguistics and the Computer Analysis of Tonal Harmony."
     by Terry Winograd (1968). Re-printed in Stephan Schwanauer and David Levitt (Eds.),
     Machine Models of Music, MIT Press, 1993, pp. 113-153.
     
     
   • "A Model for the Perception of Tonal Melodies"
     by Povel, D.-J. (2002). In proceedings of the 2nd ICMAI.

     ( Presentation by Xumei Tan -- PPT )

5. Cadences
   
   
   • Types of cadences
     
     
   • "Representation and Discovery of Vertical Patterns in Music"
     by Conklin, D. (2002). In Proceedings of the 2nd ICMAI.

     ( Presentation by Shivani Yardi -- PPT )

6. Chords Review from the Online Music Theory Reference.

7. Assigned Readings (handed out in class)
   
   
   • Notes on
     "Expectation in music: Investigation of melodic and harmonic processes."
     by Schmuckler, M.A. (1989). Music Perception 7 (2):109-135, 143-149.
     
     
   • Notes on
     "The top-down and bottom-up systems of musical implication:
     Building on Meyer's theory of emotional syntax."
     by Narmour, E. (1990). Music Perception 9:1-26.

Posted 19 Feb 2003.