Kolchinsky Artemy, Dhande Nakul, Park Kengjeun, Ahn Yong-Yeol
Department of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA.
Amazon, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
R Soc Open Sci. 2017 Nov 15;4(11):170952. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170952. eCollection 2017 Nov.
We investigate the association between musical chords and lyrics by analysing a large dataset of user-contributed guitar tablatures. Motivated by the idea that the emotional content of chords is reflected in the words used in corresponding lyrics, we analyse associations between lyrics and chord categories. We also examine the usage patterns of chords and lyrics in different musical genres, historical eras and geographical regions. Our overall results confirm a previously known association between Major chords and positive valence. We also report a wide variation in this association across regions, genres and eras. Our results suggest possible existence of different emotional associations for other types of chords.
我们通过分析用户提供的大量吉他指法谱数据集，研究音乐和弦与歌词之间的关联。受和弦的情感内容体现在相应歌词所用词汇这一观点的启发，我们分析歌词与和弦类别之间的关联。我们还考察了不同音乐流派、历史时期和地理区域中和弦与歌词的使用模式。我们的总体结果证实了之前已知的大三和弦与正价之间的关联。我们还报告了这种关联在不同地区、流派和时期存在广泛差异。我们的结果表明其他类型的和弦可能存在不同的情感关联。
