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Melodic Metaphors for Dreams in Three Classic Songs from the Disney Catalog [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Three of the most-valued songs from the Disney catalog are “Some Day My Prince Will Come,” “When You Wish Upon a Star,” and “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.” All three songs come from animated feature films created during Walt Disney’s lifetime (1901-
Bohn, James
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A New Dataset, Notation Software, and Representation for Computational Schenkerian Analysis

open access: yesCoRR
Schenkerian Analysis (SchA) is a uniquely expressive method of music analysis, combining elements of melody, harmony, counterpoint, and form to describe the hierarchical structure supporting a work of music. However, despite its powerful analytical utility and potential to improve music understanding and generation, SchA has rarely been utilized by the
Stephen Ni-Hahn   +6 more
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Exploring probabilistic grammars of symbolic music using PRISM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we describe how we used the logic-based probabilistic programming language PRISM to conduct a systematic comparison of several probabilistic models of symbolic music, including 0th and 1st order Markov models over pitches and intervals ...
Abdallah, SA, Gold, NE
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A surrogate for the soul: Wittgenstein and Schoenberg [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article challenges a widespread assumption, arguing that Wittgenstein and the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg had little in common beyond their shared cultural heritage, overlapping social circles in fin-de-ciecle Vienna.
Guter, Eran
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Modality and Chromaticism in the Madrigals of Don Carlo Gesualdo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, (1566–1613) is celebrated for his idiosyncratic use of chromaticism. Yet, the harmony of Gesualdo's madrigals evades modal rules and his chromatic style has perplexed analysts.
Knowles, Joseph Ian
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Orfeo, Osmin and Otello: towards a theory of opera analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Three diverse operatic selections are discussed in light of a new approach to opera ...
Burton, Deborah
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