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title: "The Claude Debussy Solo Piano Corpus"
abstract: "The scores of Claude Debussy's entire oeuvre for piano solo, in uncompressed MuseScore 3 format (.mscx)."
type: dataset
authors:
    - given-names: Sabrina
      family-names: Laneve
      email: sisbet@outlook.it
      affiliation: "State Music Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi”, Turin"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2629-5169"
    - given-names: Ludovica
      family-names: Schaerf
      email: ludovica.schaerf@gmail.com
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9460-702X"
    - given-names: Gabriele
      family-names: Cecchetti
      email: gabriele.cecchetti@epfl.ch
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1486-1886"
    - given-names: Johannes
      family-names: Hentschel
      email: johannes.hentschel@epfl.ch
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-9545"
    - given-names: Martin
      family-names: Rohrmeier
      email: martin.rohrmeier@epfl.ch
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4323-7257"
version: 0.9.1
date-released: 2023-05-23
keywords:
  - "music research"
  - "music theory"
  - "music history"
  - "corpus studies"
  - corpora
  - "symbolic datasets"
  - "scores"
  - "piano music"
  - "claude debussy"
  - "extended tonality"
  - modernism
  - impressionism
  - "discrete fourier transform"
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
repository: https://github.com/DCMLab/debussy_piano
preferred-citation:
  authors:
    - given-names: Sabrina
      family-names: Laneve
      email: sisbet@outlook.it
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2629-5169"
    - given-names: Ludovica
      family-names: Schaerf
      email: ludovica.schaerf@gmail.com
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9460-702X"
    - given-names: Gabriele
      family-names: Cecchetti
      email: gabriele.cecchetti@epfl.ch
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1486-1886"
    - given-names: Johannes
      family-names: Hentschel
      email: johannes.hentschel@epfl.ch
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-9545"
    - given-names: Martin
      family-names: Rohrmeier
      email: martin.rohrmeier@epfl.ch
      affiliation: "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4323-7257"
  title: "The diachronic development of Debussy’s musical style: a corpus study with Discrete Fourier Transform"
  doi: 10.1057/s41599-023-01796-7
  type: article
  journal: "Humanities and Social Sciences Communications"
  volume: 10
  issue: 1
  year: 2023
  abstract: "Claude Debussy’s personal style is typically characterised as a departure from earlier diatonic tonality, including a greater variety of pitch-class materials organised in fragmented yet coherent compositions. Exploiting the music-theoretical interpretability of Discrete Fourier Transforms over pitch-class distributions, we performed a corpus study over Debussy’s solo-piano works in order to investigate the diachronic development of such stylistic features across the composer’s lifespan. We propose quantitative heuristics for the prevalence of different pitch-class prototypes, the fragmentation of a piece across different prototypes, as well as some aspect of the overall coherence of a piece. We found strong evidence for a decrease of diatonicity in favour of octatonicity, as well as for an increase of fragmentation accompanied by non-decreasing coherence. These results contribute to the understanding of the historical development of extended-tonal harmony, while representing a fertile testing ground for the interaction of computational corpus-based methods with traditional music analytical approaches."