The New German Nature Lyric

Discourse Analysis of Lyric and Lyric-Based Classification of Music

Lyrics play an important role in the semantics and the structure of many pieces of music. However, while many existing lyric analysis systems consider each sentence of a given set of lyrics separately, lyrics are more naturally understood as multi-sentence units, where the relations between sentences is a key factor. Here we describe a series of experiments using discourse-based features, which...

Lyric-Based Rhythm Suggestion

Which comes first—the lyrics or the music? Here we consider the lyrics-first approach to songwriting and seek to augment the process by developing a creativity-support tool which uses lyrics as a creative constraint for rhythm generation. We describe a novel algorithm for suggesting possible melodic rhythms to complement the accent structure of a given set of lyrics. The algorithm is composed o...

Lyric Compression in the Stories

This paper begins by stressing the need f'or a more critical approach to the work of Katherine Mansfield, accounts of which tend often to rely on purely biographical material. After discussing the relative failure of In a Germán Pensión, which is attributed to a want of focus in the narrative point of view, the essay goes on to suggest that, in the iater work, the twin techniques of highlightin...

Lyric-Based Music Recommendation

Traditional music recommendation systems rely on collaborative filtering to recommend songs or artists. This is computationally efficient and performs well method but is not effective when there is limited or no user input. For these cases, it may be useful to consider content-based recommendation. This paper considers a content-based recommendation system based on lyrical data. We compare a co...

Lyric Poetry as Society