String-based methods for tonal harmony: A corpus study of Haydn's string quartets

06/27/2020

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by   David R. W. Sears, et al.

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This chapter considers how string-based methods might be adapted to address music-analytic questions related to the discovery of musical organization, with particular attention devoted to the analysis of tonal harmony. I begin by applying the taxonomy of mental organization proposed by Mandler (1979) to the concept of musical organization. Using this taxonomy as a guide, I then present evidence for three principles of tonal harmony – recurrence, syntax, and recursion – using a corpus of Haydn string quartets.