The Timbre in Popular Song (TiPS) Corpus
Project Reports Nicole Biamonte, Lindsey Reymore, Ben Duinker, Leigh VanHandel, Nicholas Shea, Matthew Zeller, Christopher William White, Jeremy Tatar, Jade Roth, and Kelsey Lussier Project Reports Nicole Biamonte, Lindsey Reymore, Ben Duinker, Leigh VanHandel, Nicholas Shea, Matthew Zeller, Christopher William White, Jeremy Tatar, Jade Roth, and Kelsey Lussier

The Timbre in Popular Song (TiPS) Corpus

This project analyzes the understudied parameters of timbre and texture and their interactions with musical form in a new popular-music corpus, Timbre in Popular Song (TiPS). This study addresses two problems in popular-music scholarship: lack of research on timbre and texture, and underrepresentation of non-male and non-white artists in both popular music and its scholarship.

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