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Computational modeling of interval distributions in tonal space reveals paradigmatic stylistic changes in Western music history
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Diachronic stylistic changes in music are to a large extent affected by composers' different choices, for example regarding the usage of tones, intervals, and harmonies. Analyzing the tonal content of pieces of music and observing them over time is thus in ...
Springernature2024Data-Driven Music Theory: Curating and Investigating Large Corpora of Digitally Encoded Music Analyses
This dissertation on data-driven music theory is centered around curatorial practices concerning the creation, publication, and evaluation of large, expert-annotated symbolic datasets. With its primary interest in the harmony of European tonal music from i ...
EPFL2024The diachronic development of Debussy’s musical style: a corpus study with Discrete Fourier Transform
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel, Gabriele Cecchetti, Sabrina Laneve, Ludovica Schaerf
Claude Debussy’s personal style is typically characterised as a departure from earlier diatonic tonality, including a greater variety of pitch-class materials organised in fragmented yet coherent compositions. Exploiting the music-theoretical interpretabil ...
2023An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel
We present a dataset of 264 annotated piano pieces of nine composers, composed in the long 19th century (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7483349). Annotations adhere to the DCML harmony annotation standard and include Roman numerals, phrase boundaries, and ...
Ohio State Univ, Sch Music2023The Structure of Free Polyphony
The human ability to perceive and understand music is remarkable. From an unstructured stream of acoustic input it creates a wide range of experiences, from psycho-acoustic effects to emotional and aesthetic responses. One such set of phenomena is the expe ...
EPFL2023Musical Garden Paths: Evidence for Syntactic Revision Beyond the Linguistic Domain
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti
While theoretical and empirical insights suggest that the capacity to represent and process complex syntax is crucial in language as well as other domains, it is still unclear whether specific parsing mechanisms are also shared across domains. Focusing on ...
Wiley2022Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas (A corpus of annotated scores)
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel
This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It is one out of nine similar corpora that have been grouped together to An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music ...
Zenodo2022Frédéric Chopin - Mazurkas (A corpus of annotated scores)
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel
This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It is one out of nine similar corpora that have been grouped together to An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music ...
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