A Computational Study of Choruses in Early Dutch Popular Music
Josip Balen, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp · Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) · 2013
Recorded popular music in the Netherlands first appeared in the beginning of the 20th Century. This research studies a particular element of musical form that emerged as popular music came about: the chorus. A case-study dataset of Dutch music from before the Second World War has been assembled, annotated and analyzed using melody extraction and comparison of pitch characteristics between different segment [Bartsch & Wakefield, 2001].