Dance Forms Cadence Corpus

A dataset of musical cadences from three dance forms---mazurkas, waltzes, and minutes.

The corpus is formatted as a spreadsheet (CSV) where and each row represents a particular cadence, containing its respective information. The dataset can be downloaded as a "composite" ([ncluding all dance forms, or separated by genre (mazurkas, minuets, and waltzes). Columns contain different categories of information: every cadence (row) includes its respective composer, year of composition, opus and number, key signature, meter, global form (e.g., compound ternary, rounded binary), number of measures, frequency of occurrence (if the cadence appears in a number of written-out repeats), location(s) by measure in the piece, global section of occurrence (e.g., the B section of a ternary form), local section of occurrence (if applicable, e.g., the b section of a rounded binary nested within a global compound ternary), cadence type (PAC, IAC, HC, or PC), Roman numerals (reckoned according to global key), and counterpoint (cadential slices with their outer-voice scale degrees). The number of counterpoint columns for each cadence is dependent on the number of slices.