@inproceedings{77099653e28b4d03b9ca85f18ce943dc,
title = "Voice-leading prototypes and harmonic function in two chorale corpora",
abstract = "We describe a data representation for voice leading between two sonorities in a chorale texture, and a similarity measure for these voice leadings. These tools are used in an empirical study of the relationship between voice leading and harmonic function in a corpus of Bach chorales and a corpus of Lutheran chorales from a hundred years earlier. Common voice-leading types in the corpora are subjected to a cluster analysis that is readily interpreted in terms of harmonic functional syntax. We are thus able not only to read a theory of harmony directly out of a corpus, but to do so without building in a priori notions of chord structure, rootedness, or even key. The cluster analysis also clarifies important syntactic differences between the pre-tonal (modal) corpus and the Bach (tonal) corpus.",
keywords = "Clustering, Corpus Analysis, Harmonic Function, Modality, Tonality, Voice Leading",
author = "Ian Quinn and Panayotis Mavromatis",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-21590-2_18",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783642215896",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "230--240",
booktitle = "Mathematics and Computation in Music - Third International Conference, MCM 2011, Proceedings",
note = "3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music, MCM 2011 ; Conference date: 15-06-2011 Through 17-06-2011",
}