Musicology Colloquium: Professor Megan Lavengood (George Mason University)
The Common Cold: Using Data Science to Define the Winter Topic in Video Game Music. This presentation draws on my collaborative work with Evan Williams, a music-theorist-turned-data-scientist. It models a new approach to theorizing topics via music informatics. Whereas other topic theory research typically relies on the author to recognize connections among musical features (Agawu 1991, Monelle 2006, Atkinson 2019), we allow the data to suggest its own groupings, revealing relationships that may not otherwise be apparent. Our case study is the winter topic. We chose to focus specifically on wi...
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