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A Clustering-Based Approach to Automatic Harmonic Analysis: An Exploratory Study of Harmony and Form in Mozart’s Piano Sonatas Cover

A Clustering-Based Approach to Automatic Harmonic Analysis: An Exploratory Study of Harmony and Form in Mozart’s Piano Sonatas

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Volume 5 (2022): Issue 1
By: Jason Yust,  Jaeseong Lee and  Eugene Pinsky  
Open Access
|Oct 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.114 | Journal eISSN: 2514-3298
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 6, 2021
Accepted on: Jun 7, 2022
Published on: Oct 13, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Harmonic function,
clustering,
Mozart,
harmonic spaces,
sonata form,
keys

© 2022 Jason Yust, Jaeseong Lee, Eugene Pinsky, published by Ubiquity Press
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