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Improvisation musicale
Publications associées (20)
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 ...
EPFL2024The 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 ...
EPFL2023Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study on music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti, Christoph Finkensiep
Functional harmony is an integral part of many repertoires in the Western musical practices, including both diatonic and extended tonality. In the latter context, music-theoretical accounts suggest that the three octatonic equivalence classes (OECs) consis ...
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022Discovering 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 ...
2021Exploring the foundations of tonality: statistical cognitive modeling of modes in the history of Western classical music
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Daniel Harasim
Tonality is one of the most central theoretical concepts for the analysis of Western classical music. This study presents a novel approach for the study of its historical development, exploring in particular the concept of mode. Based on a large dataset of ...
SPRINGERNATURE2021Music 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 ...
2021Harmony and form in Brazilian Choro: A corpus-driven approach to musical style analysis
Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss
This corpus study constitutes the first quantitative style analysis of Choro, a primarily instrumental music genre that emerged in Brazil at the end of the 19th century. We evaluate its description in a recent comprehensive textbook by transcribing the cho ...
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