Fabian C. Moss

Fabian C. Moss

Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Welcome!

I am a tenure-track assistant professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory in the Institut für Musikforschung at Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU), Germany, and I am also affiliated with the Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität (ZPD) and the Graduate School Humanities (GSH).

In my research, I bridge concepts and methodologies from the humanities and the sciences, and aim to understand music and its structure from an inherently interdisciplinary perspective, involving fields such as musicology and music theory, mathematics, music information retrieval, data science and machine learning, music cognition, and the digital humanities. One of my central interests lies in analysing large digital corpora in order to better understand musical styles, especially from a historical viewpoint. More specifically, I work with large symbolic datasets of musical scores and harmonic annotations. I am also interested in computational modeling of music and its perception, and am fascinated by quantitative approaches to model historical processes.

I teach courses covering a wide range of topics in music theory, computational musicology, and digital tools, and provide professional service as an advisory board member for Computational Humanities Research and Analitica - Revista Online di Studi Musicali as well as reviewing service for several conferences and journals (see CV).

Before my appointment to JMU, I have worked as a Research Fellow in Cultural Analytics at University of Amsterdam (Media Studies Department & Data Science Centre), and before that as doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)’s Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab. Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), I visited the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a research PhD student and spent a semester at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) funded by the ERASMUS program of the European Union.

Research Interests

Computational Musicology · Corpus Studies · Music Theory & Analysis · Digital Humanities · Artificial Intelligence · Cultural Evolution

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Research & Projects

Present and past

Publications

Journal Articles, Conference Papers, Datasets

Recent & upcoming talks

Modeling the evolution of harmony in different cultural contexts
Musik und Mathematik - Wie passt das eigentlich zusammen?
Digital Paths Through History: Phylogenetic Analysis of Medieval Chants based on the Graduale Synopticum Dataset
Digitale Korpusbildung in der Musikforschung: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze für die quantitative Analyse von Musikeditionsvarianten
„Zeitgemäß polyphon“. Zur Kodierung und Modellierung von Polymetrik und metrischer Irregularität in Hugo Distlers Vokalwerken

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
[Institut für Musikforschung](http://musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/) | [Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg](https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/)
Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory
Dec 2022 – Present Würzburg, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Media Studies Department | [ILLC]([www.illc.com](https://www.illc.uva.nl/)) | [Data Science Centre](https://dsc.uva.nl/) | [Universeit van Amsterdam](https://uva.nl/)
Research Fellow in Cultural Analytics
Media Studies Department | ILLC | Data Science Centre | Universeit van Amsterdam
Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 
Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Postdoctoral Researcher
Feb 2020 – Dec 2021 Lausanne, Switzerland
 
 
 
 
 
Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Doctoral Assistant
Sep 2017 – Feb 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland
 
 
 
 
 
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting PhD Student
Feb 2016 – Apr 2016 Cambridge, MA, USA
 
 
 
 
 
Dresden Music Cognition Lab | Technische Universität Dresden
Doctoral Assistant
Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 Dresden, Germany