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Record W2900374961 · doi:10.1093/mts/mty021

Chord Context and Harmonic Function in Tonal Music

2018· article· en· W2900374961 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Christopher W. White, Ian Quinn

Bibliographic record

VenueMusic Theory Spectrum · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMusic and Audio Processing
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChord (peer-to-peer)Computer scienceUniversality (dynamical systems)UniquenessGeneralizability theoryChoirFunction (biology)LinguisticsGeneralitySpeech recognitionSchema (genetic algorithms)HierarchyNatural language processingArtificial intelligenceMathematicsSociologyMachine learningPsychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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This article investigates several questions of harmonic function using aggressively data-driven approaches. We apply Hidden Markov Modeling—a technique used to identify contextual regularities within streams of data—to the Kostka-Payne, McGill Billboard, and Bach chorale corpora. The resulting models question the generalizability of the traditional three-function model, illustrating the syntactic uniqueness of various corpora while also highlighting recurrent characteristics of tonal repertories. Finally, this article offers some general observations, including questioning the role that tonal hierarchy plays in theories of function and discussing the cultural politics inherent in assuming the universality of one functional system.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2018
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