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An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century

Hentschel, Johannes  
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Rammos, Yannis
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Moss, Fabian C.
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January 1, 2023
Empirical Musicology Review

We present a dataset of 264 annotated piano pieces of nine composers, composed in the long 19th century (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7483349). Annotations adhere to the DCML harmony annotation standard and include Roman numerals, phrase boundaries, and cadence types. The scores are encoded in the XML-based MuseScore 3 format. Annotations are embedded within the MuseScore files. In addition, all harmony information, alongside key features of the encoded measure and note objects, is provided in the form of plaintext TSV-formatted tables for increased interoperability with other datasets and analysis tools. Annotations were collaboratively created and reviewed by a pool of trained music theorists. Collaboration took place asynchronously online via a semi-automated GitHub-based workflow designed for quality assurance, allowing cycles of revisions and reviews until consensus is reached. The full revision history is retained, providing data for further empirical research on inter-annotator agreement and related topics. We also present descriptive statistics about the nine corpora and the dataset as a whole, including comparisons of pitch-class contents, phrase lengths, modulations, and cadence types. We conclude with a discussion of our musicological principles for corpus building and considerations of representability.

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research article
DOI
10.18061/emr.v18i1.8903
Web of Science ID

WOS:001195575000011

Author(s)
Hentschel, Johannes  
Rammos, Yannis
Moss, Fabian C.
Neuwirth, Markus
Rohrmeier, Martin Alois  
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

Ohio State Univ, Sch Music

Published in
Empirical Musicology Review
Volume

18

Issue

1

Start page

84

End page

95

Subjects

Corpora

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Harmony

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Phrase

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Cadence

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Piano

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19Th Century

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REVIEWED

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DCML  
FunderGrant Number

Swiss National Science Foundation

1700-2000

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