Table of Contents

Abstract_____________________________________________________iii
Table of Contents_____________________________________________iv
Index of Figures and Tables_____________________________________v
Statement of Authorship______________________________________vii
Statement of Authorship______________________________________vii
Acknowledgement____________________________________________viii
1. Introduction_______________________________________________1
1.1 Origin of the Project _______________________________________________________1
1.2 Feasibility_______________________________________________________________4
1.3 The nature of the solution___________________________________________________4
1.4 Literary stylometry________________________________________________________5
1.4.1 Points of contact with the Music style problem___________________________5
1.4.2 Differences between music and literature_______________________________7
1.5 Musical Style_____________________________________________________________9
1.6 Musical Analysis_________________________________________________________10
1.7 A suggestive analogy______________________________________________________11
1.8 Conclusions_____________________________________________________________13
2. Previous attempts to deal with musical style_____________________17
3. Overview of the Project _____________________________________25
3.1 Guiding ideas from previous research_________________________________________25
3.2 Rationale_______________________________________________________________25
3.3 How to deal with the music_________________________________________________27
3.4 Source of the study_______________________________________________________32
3.5 Music Database__________________________________________________________34
3.6 Data Format_____________________________________________________________37
3.6.1 Digital music standard_______________________________________________37
3.6.2 The problem of key determination_____________________________________38
3.6.3 The algorithm______________________________________________________46
4. Details of the work carried out _______________________________53
4.1 MusicXML_____________________________________________________________53
4.2 Key determination________________________________________________________56
4.3 The width of the sliding window_____________________________________________73
4.4 Measure of tonalness______________________________________________________75
4.5 The labelling of chords____________________________________________________82
4.6 The key profile revisited___________________________________________________88
5. Results___________________________________________________91
5.1 Data about scale degrees___________________________________________________93
5.2 Data about chords________________________________________________________99
6. Discussion_______________________________________________103
6.1 Comparison with Budge’s results___________________________________________103
6.2 Limitations of the programs________________________________________________106
6.2.1 The collection procedure____________________________________________106
6.2.2 The test for tonalness______________________________________________110
6.3 Conclusions____________________________________________________________112
References_________________________________________________113
Appendix I – Listing of the database____________________________116
Appendix II – Tables _________________________________________ 128
Appendix III – Musical notation basics __________________________ 147
Appendix IV – Format example ________________________________ 160
Appendix V – Application example _____________________________ 176
Appendix VI – Scores_________________________________________ 183