The romantext format: A flexible and standard method for representing roman numeral analyses
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romantext.pdf
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Author(s)
Tymoczko, Dmitri
Gotham, Mark
Cuthbert, Michael Scott
Ariza, Christopher
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2019
Citation
2019. "The romantext format: A flexible and standard method for representing roman numeral analyses." Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2019.
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2020 International Society for Music Information Retrieval. All rights reserved. Roman numeral analysis has been central to the Western musician's toolkit since its emergence in the early nineteenth century: it is an extremely popular method for recording subjective analytical decisions about the chords and keys implied by a passage of music. Disagreements about these judgments have led to extensive theoretical debates and ongoing controversies. Such debates are exacerbated by the absence of a public corpus of expert Roman numeral analyses, and by the more fundamental lack of an agreed-upon, computer-readable syntax in which those analyses might be expressed. This paper specifies such a standard, along with an associated code library in music21, and a preliminary set of example corpora. To frame the project, we review some of the motivations for doing harmonic analysis, some reasons why it resists automation, and some prospective uses for our tools.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Music and Theater Arts Section
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https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/romantext.pdf
