This paper presents a web application for visualizing the tonality of a piece of musicthe organization of its chords and scalesat 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 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.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Harasim2022_MidiVERTOWebApplication
%A Harasim, Daniel
%A Affatato, Giovanni
%A Moss, Fabian C.
%B Mathematics and Computation in Music
%C Cham
%D 2022
%E Montiel, Mariana
%E Agustín-Aquino, Octavio A.
%E Gómez, Francisco
%E Kastine, Jeremy
%E Lluis-Puebla, Emilio
%E Milam, Brent
%I Springer International Publishing
%K Discrete Fourier application transform,MIDI,Tonality,Visualization,Web
%P 363--368
%R 10.1007/978-3-031-07015-0_31
%T midiVERTO: A Web Application to Visualize Tonality in Real Time
%X This paper presents a web application for visualizing the tonality of a piece of musicthe organization of its chords and scalesat 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 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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