BeatlesFC: Harmonic function annotations of Isophonics' The Beatles dataset

Jiyeoung Sim (The CUNY Graduate Center), Rebecca Moranis (CUNY Graduate Center), Johanna Devaney (Brooklyn College)*

lbd-486-beatlesfc-harmonic-function

This paper will be presented virtually at the 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM PST session

Abstract:

This paper presents a set of harmonic function annotations for Isophonics' The Beatles datasets. Harmonic function annotations characterize chord labels as stable (tonic) or unstable (predominant, dominant). They operate at the level of musical phrases and thus serve as a link between chord labels and higher-level formal structures.