Emotion Painting: Lyric, Affect, and Musical Relationships in a Large Lead-Sheet Corpus
How are lyrical emotions expressed in music? This paper explores the correlation between affect-carrying lyrics and musical features such as beat strength, duration, pitch height, consonance, and mode. Using computer-aided musicology software music21 and the NRC emotion lexicon, we conduct a corpus...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | http://emusicology.org/article/view/5889 |