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2020
There are many modes of critical engagement with popular songs. Words may be ignored altogether in analysing the music; at the other extreme, word-led discussions can be in danger of treating the words in song as though they were page poems. An examination of different approaches to writing about song is followed by discussion of the words to five ...
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There are many modes of critical engagement with popular songs. Words may be ignored altogether in analysing the music; at the other extreme, word-led discussions can be in danger of treating the words in song as though they were page poems. An examination of different approaches to writing about song is followed by discussion of the words to five ...
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Automatically Determining the Popularity of a Song
2017The purpose of this paper is to identify a connection, if such a connection exists, between the sequence of sounds and the lyrics of a melody and its popularity with the help of machine learning techniques. The melody popularity will be quantified as the number of views and number of “like” votes on the YouTube platform, where users can upload, view ...
Costin Chiru, Oana-Georgiana Popescu
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2019
Abstract Chapter 2 follows up on the material of earlier chapters with an extensive description and comparison of rock songs and theatre songs. First, the commonalities of all songs are reviewed, and a connection is made between song and human behavior.
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Abstract Chapter 2 follows up on the material of earlier chapters with an extensive description and comparison of rock songs and theatre songs. First, the commonalities of all songs are reviewed, and a connection is made between song and human behavior.
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2022
Abstract Composer Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some eight hundred songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer’s ...
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Abstract Composer Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some eight hundred songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer’s ...
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1996
Abstract Almost everything Wilder did in the popular music field was prelude and preparation for American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, a definitive work begun in 1968 and published to applause by Oxford University Press in 1972.
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Abstract Almost everything Wilder did in the popular music field was prelude and preparation for American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, a definitive work begun in 1968 and published to applause by Oxford University Press in 1972.
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2022
Abstract This chapter focuses on the numerous popular songs as musical quotations that are integrated into Godard’s films and video productions in a self-reflexive manner. In Une femme est une femme, the female protagonist and her male friend listen in a bar to Charles Aznavour’s “Tu t’laisses aller,” which appears—as a rarity in Godard ...
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Abstract This chapter focuses on the numerous popular songs as musical quotations that are integrated into Godard’s films and video productions in a self-reflexive manner. In Une femme est une femme, the female protagonist and her male friend listen in a bar to Charles Aznavour’s “Tu t’laisses aller,” which appears—as a rarity in Godard ...
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Memory for Frequency of Hearing Popular Songs
The American Journal of Psychology, 1988In two experiments college students were asked to provide situational frequency estimates of 10-s excerpts from rock songs. In both experiments familiarity of the musical selections heard one, two, three, or four times was varied. In Experiment 2 the nature of instructions given to subjects prior to presentation of the musical excerpts was also ...
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Popular Music and Society, 1998
Sondheim's Broadway Musicals. Stephen Banfield. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. 453 pp. $49.50 cloth, $23.95 paper. Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist. Philip Furia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 278 pp.
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Sondheim's Broadway Musicals. Stephen Banfield. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. 453 pp. $49.50 cloth, $23.95 paper. Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist. Philip Furia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 278 pp.
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2017
Abstract Popular song is a genre that is characterized by adaptation and appropriation practices, in much the same way that other creative media and literary and screen genres are. In arguing that the relationship between the economically and socially significant creative song industry and adaptation theory and practice has not been ...
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Abstract Popular song is a genre that is characterized by adaptation and appropriation practices, in much the same way that other creative media and literary and screen genres are. In arguing that the relationship between the economically and socially significant creative song industry and adaptation theory and practice has not been ...
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