A better translation of the **harm annotations in Haydn Op.20

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A better translation of the **harm annotations in Haydn Op.20 #29

Closed napulen closed 3 years ago

napulen commented 3 years ago

Generally, many annotations were omitted in the first translation because they were annotated in part != parts[0].

This set should have more annotations (and all the previous ones preserved), plus annotations at the pickup measures, which are helpful for alignment.

MarkGotham commented 3 years ago

Great!

Accepting right away, though I see a couple of (potential) issues to review:

Ger7: Fine if you mean that inversion, but I see lots of them and none of the more usual Ger65 so these might need a review.
It should specify an inversion, usually It6. It's starting to look like all the Augmented sixths need a simple find/replace.
-VII: generally, replace - with b, but actually in so far as these chords appear in minor context, simply VII will get you a major triad on the lower seventh due to music21 quality (default) option for handling 6th and 7th degrees in minor. If this proves a more-than-trivial task then the code/anthology.py script here can help find all and only these cases.

napulen commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the review @MarkGotham!

I remember encoding "root position" German Aug6 chords. Some of these should be correct. However, you are right that the number is off. I think I will have to manually inspect all Ger7 chords.

As for It ones, those are probably incorrect translations of the inversion. Have to look into those.

About the -VII. Yes, I think most of these could be translated as VII in When-in-Rome. I have to admit that this one is trickier. **harm is technically always referring to a harmonic minor scale. When I do the translation, I enforce a harmonic minor interpretation using the arguments in music21.RomanNumeral. Here I am inclined to say that -VII should always be translated as bVII because that is the unambiguous translation from **harm. If I understand correctly, this should still refer to the same harmony as VII in RomanText, correct?

MarkGotham commented 3 years ago

Thanks, great!

And that's right re bVII -- it should be fine thanks to the cautionary default that reads this b and the upper case in the same way.