{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-minor-fall-the-major-lift-inferring","title":"The Minor Fall, the Major Lift: Inferring Emotional Valence of Musical Chords through Lyrics","arxiv_id":"1706.08609","date":"2017-06-26","proceeding":null,"authors":["Artemy Kolchinsky","Nakul Dhande","Kengjeun Park","Yong-Yeol Ahn"],"abstract":"We investigate the association between musical chords and lyrics by analyzing\na large dataset of user-contributed guitar tablatures. Motivated by the idea\nthat the emotional content of chords is reflected in the words used in\ncorresponding lyrics, we analyze associations between lyrics and chord\ncategories. We also examine the usage patterns of chords and lyrics in\ndifferent musical genres, historical eras, and geographical regions. Our\noverall results confirms a previously known association between Major chords\nand positive valence. We also report a wide variation in this association\nacross regions, genres, and eras. Our results suggest possible existence of\ndifferent emotional associations for other types of chords.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08609v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08609v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-minor-fall-the-major-lift-inferring","repo_url":"https://github.com/artemyk/chordsentiment","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}