midiVERTO: a web application to visualize tonality in real time

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-07015-0_31MaRDI QIDQ2165191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Harasim, Giovanni Affatato, Fabian C. Moss

Publication date 18 August 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13158

zbMATH Keywords

discrete Fourier transformMIDItonalityvisualizationweb application

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and music (00A65) Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50)

Abstract: This paper presents a web application for visualizing the tonality of a piece of music -- the organization of its chords and scales -- at a high level of abstraction and with coordinated playback. The application applies the discrete Fourier transform to the pitch-class domain of a user-specified segmentation of a MIDI file and visualizes the Fourier coefficients' trajectories. Since the coefficients indicate different musical properties, such as harmonic function, triadicity, and diatonicity, the application isolates aspects of a piece's tonality and shows their development in time. The aim of the application is to bridge a gap between mathematical music theory, musicology, and the general public by making the discrete Fourier transform as applied to the pitch-class domain accessible without requiring advanced mathematical knowledge or programming skills up front.

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