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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 5 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 61705 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 66 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 music 4 Mozart 3 Wagner 3 Symphony 3 Schumann 3 Liszt 3 Haydn 3 Berlioz 3 Beethoven 3 Bach 2 work 2 italian 2 instrument 2 french 2 Sonata 2 Schubert 2 Mr. 2 English 2 Chopin 1 theme 1 sidenote 1 russian 1 romantic 1 pianoforte 1 musical 1 illustration 1 great 1 german 1 form 1 composer 1 York 1 Tchaikowsky 1 Supplement 1 Suite 1 Strauss 1 Scherzo 1 Richard 1 Plain 1 Pianoforte 1 Palestrina 1 Paderewski 1 Overture 1 Opera 1 New 1 Handel 1 Franck 1 Form 1 Footnote 1 Finale 1 Fifth Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2023 music 739 work 659 theme 590 form 574 composer 545 sidenote 538 movement 510 instrument 396 part 381 measure 375 time 375 melody 358 tone 351 pianoforte 323 effect 320 art 313 song 308 orchestra 303 composition 284 symphony 282 example 277 voice 277 style 267 sonata 238 piece 236 opera 229 expression 220 life 218 string 217 fact 208 development 203 note 197 key 192 rhythm 188 day 176 genius 169 year 168 passage 165 phrase 162 violin 162 power 161 word 161 nature 158 man 151 way 151 hand 148 use 147 musician 144 one 143 bass Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6105 _ 583 Beethoven 321 Bach 284 Footnote 280 Wagner 280 Symphony 228 Schumann 224 Mozart 221 | 216 pianoforte 205 Liszt 202 Brahms 196 Chopin 183 Sonata 178 Music 175 Haydn 168 Berlioz 147 Schubert 137 Strauss 107 Franck 105 Finale 98 C 93 Pianoforte 88 Richard 83 et 83 Mendelssohn 80 Debussy 77 Overture 76 Tchaikowsky 76 New 73 Scherzo 73 English 71 F 68 Mr. 61 de 61 G 58 Fifth 56 Suite 54 French 54 Coda 53 York 52 Opera 51 Handel 50 Church 49 Weber 48 Scarlatti 47 Orchestra 47 Form 46 Paderewski 45 d''Indy Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2263 it 1375 he 891 we 612 they 473 i 329 them 267 him 211 us 161 itself 152 himself 150 you 75 me 66 themselves 63 she 53 one 30 her 15 ourselves 14 myself 7 herself 6 his 3 yourself 2 ye 2 thyself 2 thee 2 ours 1 yours 1 oneself 1 hör Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 9458 be 2038 have 474 make 421 do 376 say 351 give 351 find 309 play 300 call 298 see 286 write 236 know 233 begin 227 hear 217 become 206 follow 204 come 202 seem 200 use 180 show 174 take 145 produce 139 compose 136 go 128 speak 126 bring 125 work 122 lead 118 consider 110 think 110 develop 103 employ 100 express 99 sing 97 feel 94 mean 90 set 88 understand 87 listen 85 base 84 bear 82 sound 78 reach 78 present 77 stand 77 indicate 76 note 76 introduce 76 add 72 represent Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1018 not 686 first 619 so 570 more 559 great 485 most 442 musical 348 well 348 only 344 modern 341 other 302 second 286 as 279 such 273 many 249 also 246 even 237 often 233 much 227 out 226 however 225 very 218 same 209 own 203 dramatic 201 e.g. 198 now 185 then 184 minor 180 orchestral 177 long 173 always 171 up 162 good 156 too 155 last 151 high 147 major 147 far 146 early 139 old 138 thus 138 certain 137 still 135 instrumental 133 just 131 free 127 third 126 never 122 little Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 93 great 89 good 57 high 44 least 42 most 23 fine 22 early 12 simple 12 low 10 late 6 slight 6 old 5 strong 5 small 5 noble 5 free 5 deep 4 wide 4 true 4 lofty 4 happy 3 young 3 lovely 3 loud 3 long 3 large 3 broad 3 Most 2 pure 2 proud 2 near 2 manif 2 grave 2 grand 2 full 2 fair 2 e 2 clear 2 bold 2 bare 1 vulgar 1 vile 1 topmost 1 sweet 1 strict 1 soft 1 slow 1 sincere 1 short 1 sad Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 443 most 24 well 5 least 1 highest 1 goethe Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 music does not 3 _ is also 3 melody is not 3 music is as 3 music is so 2 bach is so 2 beethoven did not 2 composer is always 2 compositions are not 2 form is free 2 forms were still 2 instrument is capable 2 measure is systematically 2 movement is frequently 2 music has always 2 music is due 2 music is more 2 music is not 2 music is readily 2 music is still 2 music is thoroughly 2 music was not 2 music was so 2 part is more 2 pianoforte do not 2 pianoforte is not 2 songs are not 2 style is possible 2 theme is merely 2 theme is not 2 voice became prominent 2 works are quite 2 works are so 1 _ are _ 1 _ are beautiful 1 _ are more 1 _ are purely 1 _ are remarkable 1 _ are so 1 _ are universally 1 _ are words 1 _ begins _ 1 _ being perhaps 1 _ does not 1 _ give stamitz 1 _ has _ 1 _ has as 1 _ is _ 1 _ is here 1 _ is properly Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ does not quite 1 art is not more 1 beethoven being no reckless 1 composer were not able 1 composers make no strong 1 effects have no opportunity 1 example is not only 1 instruments are no longer 1 melody is no melody 1 melody is not harmony 1 movement being not so 1 movement has no theme 1 music has no place 1 music has no such 1 music has not yet 1 orchestra are not as 1 pianoforte has no business 1 songs are not german 1 time had not yet 1 tones are not merely 1 voice is not mere 1 voices are not always 1 wagner are not due 1 work is not beautiful 1 works are not altogether 1 works shows no evidence 1 works were not only A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 34610 author = Kobbé, Gustav title = How to Appreciate Music date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Bülow; Chopin; Haydn; Liszt; Mozart; Mr.; Paderewski; Richard; Schubert; Schumann; Sonata; Strauss; Symphony; Wagner; composer; great; instrument; italian; music; pianoforte; work summary = epoch--A Bach fugue more elaborate than a music-drama or tone modern music--Wagner unites the harmony of Beethoven with the music--Wagner, greatest of orchestral composers--Employs large the Mozart opera and the Beethoven symphony in the evolution of music, his baton as a pianoforte is to the fingers of a musical poet like go through the pianoforte score of a Wagner music-drama and, as you of the composer and the woman who inspired his great music-drama, to A Wagner music-drama, a Richard Strauss tone poem, seem form as developed by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven), Bach composed pianoforte scores of the Wagner music-dramas, which actually sound this day in orchestra, opera and music-drama as well as in pianoforte this greater genius, and he said of Chopin that he composed music for of instrumental music in the tone poem of Richard Strauss. Strauss''s works form the latest great utterance in music. id = 17474 author = Krehbiel, Henry Edward title = How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Church; English; Handel; Haydn; Liszt; Mozart; Mr.; New; Opera; Schumann; Symphony; Wagner; York; form; french; german; illustration; instrument; italian; music; musical; romantic; sidenote summary = music--Development of the instrument--The Pedal and its use--Liszt and [Sidenote: _Popular ignorance of music._] [Sidenote: _The nature of music._] [Sidenote: _Tones and musical material._] [Sidenote: _Origin of musical elements._] [Sidenote: _How composers hear music._] [Sidenote: _Beethoven''s Chamber music._] [Sidenote: _The characteristics of Chamber music._] [Sidenote: _Kinds of Programme music._] [Sidenote: _Music and movement._] instrumental because it is a mixed art; in it the purpose of music is [Sidenote: _Beethoven''s notes on descriptive music._] [Sidenote: _A definition of "Classical" in music._] conditioned the character of the music composed for the instrument, wind instruments, are obliged to form the musical tone--which, in the [Sidenote: _Periods in pianoforte music._] music composed for these instruments to a great extent. [Sidenote: _Music and emotion._] [Sidenote: _Words and music united._] [Sidenote: _Music and action._] [Sidenote: _Music and dramatic expression._] [Sidenote: _Five-part music._] [Sidenote: _Characteristics of his music._] [Sidenote: _Palestrina''s music not dramatic._] id = 30412 author = Saint-Saëns, Camille title = On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music date = keywords = Mozart; Palestrina; Plain; music summary = his treatise on music, speaking of how Plain Song should be interpreted, the grievous practice of adapting popular songs to church music. century admirable music was written, though deprived of melody, properly attempts to execute the music of Palestrina were made in the time of me, differs completely from our musical conceptions; and it is a great Such a way of playing this music is simply out of the question. It was decided that in piano playing unless indicated to the Finally, in ancient times notes were not defined as they are to-day and written note indicating a long or short duration. A great obstacle to executing ancient works from the eighteenth century revolutionized the performance of music on the piano, but also the way A question of the greatest importance in playing the music of Chopin is Another plague in the modern execution of music is the abuse of the id = 30560 author = Spalding, Walter Raymond title = Music: An Art and a Language date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Berlioz; Brahms; Chopin; Coda; Debussy; English; Fifth; Finale; Footnote; Form; Franck; Haydn; Liszt; Mozart; Overture; Pianoforte; Scherzo; Schubert; Schumann; Sonata; Suite; Supplement; Symphony; Tchaikowsky; Wagner; french; music; russian; theme; work summary = foundation of any large work of music, be it symphony, symphonic poem part in the music of Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Grieg, movement of Brahms''s _C minor Symphony_, the second phrase of which is theme of the Slow movement of Schumann''s Second Symphony (measures instrumental music gradually worked out a structure of its own,[64] Invention, the Two and Three-part forms, the Rondo and the Varied Air. Through the perfecting of these means of expression music became a two living musical personalities, the first and second themes. For actual musical examples it seems best to begin with the works of invent pure instrumental melody, _i.e._, musical expression suited to Bach''s work, we feel that his musical sense operated abstractly like a than the mere development of musical themes. working principles of musical composition, they are as much subject to use made of themes in modern music, in the works of Strauss,