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Visual hierarchical key analysis

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Craig Stuart SappAuthors Info & Claims

Computers in Entertainment (CIE), Volume 3, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/1095534.1095544

Published: 01 October 2005 Publication History

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Tonal music is often conceived of as progressing through a sequence of key regions, usually starting and ending in the tonic key, with a journey away from the tonic key somewhere in the middle of the piece. This article presents a visual method of displaying the musical key structure of a composition in a single picture. The hierarchical plots can also show the relative strength of these key regions and how they develop out of the chordal substrate of the music.

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Visual hierarchical key analysis
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Sound and music computing
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Specialized information retrieval
      1. Multimedia and multimodal retrieval
        Music retrieval

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Computers in Entertainment Volume 3, Issue 4

Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in Entertainment

October 2005

116 pages

EISSN:1544-3574

DOI:10.1145/1095534

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