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The relationship between sensory consonance and Western harmony is animportant topic in music theory and psychology. We introduce new methods foranalysing this relationship, and apply them to large corpora representing threeprominent genres of Western music: classical, popular, and jazz music. Thesemethods centre on a generative sequence model with an exponential-familyenergy-based form that predicts chord sequences from continuous features. Weuse this model to investigate one aspect of instantaneous consonance(harmonicity) and two aspects of sequential consonance (spectral distance andvoice-leading distance). Applied to our three musical genres, the resultsgenerally support the relationship between sensory consonance and harmony, butlead us to question the high importance attributed to spectral distance in thepsychological literature. We anticipate that our methods will provide a usefulplatform for future work linking music psychology to music theory.

An energy-based generative sequence model for testing sensory theories of Western harmony