This commentary focuses on Shea (2019) and its relationship to much of the literature on popular and rock music. The commentary offers some methodological considerations on the construction of corpora for this type of analysis. The commentary questions the operational definition of 'lament,' and laud's Shea's work in attempting to create a more thorough, objective definition. Ultimately, the commentary concludes that, while Shea's approach is worthwhile, a much larger corpus must be generated in order to draw meaningful conclusions from it.

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什么是“哀歌”，究竟是什么？：评尼古拉斯·谢伊的“西方歌曲中的低音图式和负面情绪”

本评论侧重于 Shea（2019 年）及其与许多流行音乐和摇滚音乐文献的关系。评论提供了一些关于构建此类分析的语料库的方法论考虑。评论质疑“哀叹”的操作定义，以及劳德的谢伊试图创建一个更彻底、更客观的定义的工作。最终，评论的结论是，虽然 Shea 的方法是值得的，但必须生成更大的语料库才能从中得出有意义的结论。