What is a "Lament," Really?: A Commentary on Nicholas Shea's "Descending Bass Schemata and Negative Emotion in Western Song"
This commentary focuses on Shea (2019) and its relationship to much of the literature on popular and rock music. The commentary offers some methodological considerations on the construction of corpora for this type of analysis. The commentary questions the operational definition of 'lament,...
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| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://emusicology.org/article/view/7570 |