Visualization of Tonal Harmony for Jazz Lead Sheets

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2022
Authors
Bunks, Carey
Weyde, Tillman
Slingsby, Aidan
Wood, Jo
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Jazz improvisation is the extemporaneous expression of melody, and musicians commonly base their performances on chord progressions given by lead sheets. It is standard practice to commit a progression to memory by analyzing it for common patterns. This paper presents a visualization design intended to help reduce the amount of cognitive work needed to assimilate a song's chords and harmonic patterns. It does this using color, shapes, and glyphs as visual variables to convey meaning about tonal centers, chord functions, and harmonic structure.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:evs.20221102
,
booktitle = {
EuroVis 2022 - Short Papers
},
editor = {
Agus, Marco
 and 
Aigner, Wolfgang
 and 
Hoellt, Thomas
},
title = {{
Visualization of Tonal Harmony for Jazz Lead Sheets
}},
author = {
Bunks, Carey
 and 
Weyde, Tillman
 and 
Slingsby, Aidan
 and 
Wood, Jo
},
year = {
2022
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {
978-3-03868-184-7
},
DOI = {
10.2312/evs.20221102
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/evs.20221102
 https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/evs20221102
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EuroVisShort2022