Modelling Keys and Modulation with Scales and Harmonic Progressions

Laurent Feisthauer (1, 2) , Louis Bigo (1, 2) , Mathieu Giraud (1, 2) , Florence Levé (3, 1, 2)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189
2 Algomus
3 MIS - Modélisation, Information et Systèmes - UR UPJV 4290

Key changes, also called modulations, are common in tonal music. With cadences, they contribute to what can be called a tonal path, and generally to the structure of music. To better model key modulations throughout a piece, we propose to take into account scales, strong harmonic progressions as well as key relationships. We test these proposals on a corpus of Mozart String Quartets movements.

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Son [cs.SD]

Laurent Feisthauer, Louis Bigo, Mathieu Giraud, Florence Levé. Modelling Keys and Modulation with Scales and Harmonic Progressions. Digital Music Research Network Workshop (DMRN+14), 2019, London, France. ⟨hal-02392389⟩