Relationships Between Lyrics And Melody In Popular Music.
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Composers of popular music weave lyrics, melody, and instrumentation together to create a consistent and compelling emotional scene. The relationships among these elements are critical to musical communication, and understanding the statistics behind these relationships can contribute to numerous problems in music information retrieval and creativity support. In this paper, we present the results of an observational study on a large symbolic database of popular music; our results identify several patterns in the relationship between lyrics and melody. 1.
Authors: Nichols, Eric, Morris, Dan, Basu, Sumit, Raphael, Christopher
Institutions: Indiana University, Microsoft (United States)
Language: English
Topic: Music and Audio Processing
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2135801767