Is Melody “Dead?”: A Large-scale Analysis of Pop Music Melodies from 1960 through 2019
In this paper we theorize that there are specific musical features that contribute to a melody’s character which we define as melodiousness and conduct a large-scale corpus analysis to examine whether there are differences in the melodiousness of popular hit songs from the 1960s compared with presen...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://emusicology.org/index.php/EMR/article/view/8746 |