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The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions book cover

1st Edition

The Music in the Data Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions

By Christopher W. White Copyright 2023
326 Pages 117 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 117 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

326 Pages 117 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can be productively integrated with the qualitative questions at the heart of music research. The author argues that as well as providing objective evidence, music corpora can themselves be treated as texts to be subjectively... Read more

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Methodology: Corpus Analyses and Music Theory

Chapter 2 - What Is Style? An Essay

Chapter 3 - What Is Harmony? A Narrative

Chapter 4 - What Is Function? An Epistolary

Chapter 5 - What Is Meter? A Dialogue

Chapter 6 - What Is Musical Key? A Diatribe

Biography

Christopher White is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

"The Music in the Data shows how new lenses can inform traditional questions, while demonstrating how these methods require a critical, humanist perspective. ... [O]ne utility of the book is to provide accessible entry points into a potentially intimidating subdiscipline ... the book is fun and colloquial. ... Regardless of subdiscipline in music theory, The Music in the Data is a substantial contribution to situating our conceptualization of the field and its claims."

—Matt Chiu, Music Theory Spectrum

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