Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”?
Most current approaches to key-finding, either from symbolic data such as MIDI or from digital audio data, rely on pitch-class profiles. Our alternative approach is based on two ideas: first, that chord progressions, understood rather loosely as pairs of neighboring harmonic states demarcated by not...
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| description | Most current approaches to key-finding, either from symbolic data such as MIDI or from digital audio data, rely on pitch-class profiles. Our alternative approach is based on two ideas: first, that chord progressions, understood rather loosely as pairs of neighboring harmonic states demarcated by note onsets, are sufficient as windows for key-finding, at least in the chorale context; and second, that the encapsulated identity of a chord progression (modulo pitch-class transposition and revoicing) is sufficient – that is, that reduction of progressions to pitch-class distributions is not necessary for key-finding. The system has no access to explicit information about a chord progression other than its transpositional distribution in the training corpus, yet it is able to reach an almost stunning degree of subtlety in its harmonic analysis of chorales it’s never heard before. This suggests that reductionist approaches to tonality may be off the mark, or at least that pitch-class reductionism might not be necessary for a principled account of key. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-04485495c41641948015a6a613da8f452025-02-02T09:31:53ZdeuGesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH)Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie1862-67422010-01-017215116310.31751/513513Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”?Ian QuinnMost current approaches to key-finding, either from symbolic data such as MIDI or from digital audio data, rely on pitch-class profiles. Our alternative approach is based on two ideas: first, that chord progressions, understood rather loosely as pairs of neighboring harmonic states demarcated by note onsets, are sufficient as windows for key-finding, at least in the chorale context; and second, that the encapsulated identity of a chord progression (modulo pitch-class transposition and revoicing) is sufficient – that is, that reduction of progressions to pitch-class distributions is not necessary for key-finding. The system has no access to explicit information about a chord progression other than its transpositional distribution in the training corpus, yet it is able to reach an almost stunning degree of subtlety in its harmonic analysis of chorales it’s never heard before. This suggests that reductionist approaches to tonality may be off the mark, or at least that pitch-class reductionism might not be necessary for a principled account of key.https://storage.gmth.de/zgmth/pdf/513Jean-Philippe RameauchoralJohann Sebastian BachalgorithmAlgorithmuscadenceKadenzpitch classchordZusammenklangchoralephrygianphrygischMehrdeutigkeitambiguityStollenholismHolismus |
| spellingShingle | Ian Quinn Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Jean-Philippe Rameau choral Johann Sebastian Bach algorithm Algorithmus cadence Kadenz pitch class chord Zusammenklang chorale phrygian phrygisch Mehrdeutigkeit ambiguity Stollen holism Holismus |
| title | Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? |
| title_full | Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? |
| title_fullStr | Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? |
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| title_short | Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? |
| title_sort | are pitch class profiles really key for key |
| topic | Jean-Philippe Rameau choral Johann Sebastian Bach algorithm Algorithmus cadence Kadenz pitch class chord Zusammenklang chorale phrygian phrygisch Mehrdeutigkeit ambiguity Stollen holism Holismus |
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