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Data-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 ...
EPFL2024Computational modeling of interval distributions in tonal space reveals paradigmatic stylistic changes in Western music history
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Robert Lieck
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 ...
Springernature2024Fishing for complements with chord, scale, and rhythm nets
The aim of this paper is to argue that complementation is an operation similarly fundamental to music theory as transposition and inversion. We focus on studying the chromatic complement mapping that translates diatonic seventh chords into 8-note scales wh ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023midiVERTO: A Web Application to Visualize Tonality in Real Time
Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim
This paper presents a web application for visualizing the tonality of a piece of music-the organization of its chords and scales-at a high level of abstraction and with coordinated playback. The application applies the discrete Fourier transform to the pit ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022Phantom Curves: Scientific Discovery through Interactive Music Visualization
Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim
We introduce phantom curves, a novel music-theoretical concept based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), and document the creative process that led to their discovery. In particular, we emphasize the importance of interactive web applications for musi ...
ACM2022Music Cognition: The Complexity of Musical Structure
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Mathieu Giraud
Music is highly complex and provides a rich variety of insights into the human mind, its mental structures, and processes. Experienced musicians are able to create complex structures in real time effortlessly, yet there is at present no successful model of ...
2021Discovering Tonal Profiles with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss
Music analysis, in particular harmonic analysis, is concerned with the way pitches are organized in pieces of music, and a range of empirical applications have been developed, for example, for chord recognition or key finding. Naturally, these approaches r ...
2021The Tonal Diffusion Model
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Robert Lieck
Pitch-class distributions are of central relevance in music information retrieval, computational musicology and various other fields, such as music perception and cognition. However, despite their structure being closely related to the cognitively and musi ...
2020Transitions of Tonality: A Model-Based Corpus Study
Tonality has been the cornerstone of Western music-theoretical discourse for centuries. This study addresses the subject, using traditional music analysis, data-driven corpus methods, and computational models, concentrating on historical changes of tonalit ...
EPFL2019Distant Neighbors and Interscalar Contiguities
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim
This paper studies the "integration" problem of nineteenth- century harmony the question whether the novel chromatic chord transitions in this time are a radical break from or a natural extension of the conventional diatonic system. We examine the connecti ...
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019