DigiMusTh: Using pre-built tools for a static, multimodal text collection

Studying the diachronic development of chromaticism and dissonance in western music over three centuries

Beyond Bars: Distribution of Edit Operations in Historical Prints

Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro, Western classical, and Anglophone popular music: a data-driven comparison

Towards a generative model of medieval chant

Musicology and European Partnerships: Resilient Cultural Heritage and Virtual Worlds

Encoding polymeter: A corpus of Hugo Distler's «Der Jahrkreis» op. 5 in different symbolic formats

We present DistlerCorpus, a corpus of Hugo Distler’s Der Jahrkreis op. 5.

Mapping the space of harmonic cadences between Brazilian choro, jazz and Anglophone popular music

This paper reports on an experiment extends a methodology to analyze and compare harmonic progressions at moments of formal segmentation in different styles based on corpora of Roman numeral annotations, and deploys it to the styles of Brazilian choro, Anglophone popular and jazz music.

Inferring Communities of Medieval Music Manuscripts Using Stochastic Block Models

What can we learn from the content of surviving medieval music manuscripts about their cultural context?

Developing digital preservation, edition, and analysis of sources of medieval monophony and its theory: A Report from the EarlyMuse STS in Würzburg, Germany

A Bayesian Approach to Modality and Regionality in Medieval Chant

Accepted for publication.

COST Action EarlyMuse 2022–2026: Six Reports on Musicology in Europe

From JPEG to Tree: Analysis of Melodic Variants in the Graduale Synopticum Edition

Accepted for publication.

Studying Chord Properties from Audio: A Diachronic Analysis of Root, Bass, and Pitch-Class Content

Accepted for publication.

The history of music: Approaches from cultural evolution and musicology

Tong yun san gong theory: corpus evidence for the distinctions among three Chinese heptatonic diao

Accepted for publication.

Establishment of an open digital collection of historical music theory texts from German-speaking countries based on 19th-century examples (DigiMusTh) – Project Documentation and Guidelines

The Rest is Silence: Leveraging Unseen Species Models for Computational Musicology

How many composers are we missing in RISM? What percentage of medieval sources of Gregorian chant have we already cataloged? How many differences in music prints do we expect to find between editions? How large is the coverage of songs from genres of a folk music tradition? And how close are we in estimating the size of the harmonic vocabulary of a large number of composers?

Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora

How much are we still missing?

Corpus Troporum Dataset: A Digital Catalog of Trope Elements in Medieval Chant

We present a dataset of occurrences of so-called trope elements in manuscripts of European medieval chant.

Big Data = Großes Wissen? Herausforderungen der digital-vergleichenden Korpusforschung

Modeling the Evolution of Harmony in Popular Music from Different Cultural Contexts

Here, we introduce music-theoretically sensible notions of harmonic distance between chords, that allows us to arrive at more fine-grained results regarding relative influences of different kinds of harmonic relations on diachronic changes.

Fourier Qualia Wavescapes: Hierarchical Analyses of Set Class Quality and Ambiguity

We introduce a novel perspective on set-class analysis combining the DFT magnitudes with the music visualisation technique of wavescapes.

Computational modeling of interval distributions in tonal space reveals paradigmatic stylistic changes in Western music history

In this study, we employ a computational model that formalizes music-theoretic conceptualizations of tonal space, and use it to infer the most likely interval distributions for pieces in a large corpus of music, represented as so-called ‘bags of tonal pitch classes’.

Transatlantic Transformations: On Neo-Riemannian Theories

Hugo Riemann never set foot on American soil. His harmonic theories, however, did cross the Atlantic and fell on fertile grounds, inspiring a rich repertoire of methods for music analysis that is nowadays usually subsumed under the name of neo-Riemannian theories (NRTs)—decidedly in the plural form. In this essay, I will review the central characteristics of NRTs and will relate how they connect with Hugo Riemann’s original works.

Computational and digital approaches to music scholarship

An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century

We present a dataset of 264 annotated piano pieces of nine composers, composed in the long 19th century.

Historical Changes of Modes and their Substructure Modeled as Pitch Distributions in Plainchant from the 1100s to the 1500s

Here, we analyze more than 40 000 pieces of plainchant to better understand the evolution of modes and pitch distributions in a period of five centuries that saw the development of the Western modal practice.

MonodiKit: A data model and toolkit for medieval monophonic chant

We present MonodiKit, a Python library for the analysis and processing of medieval chant documents.

Vorsicht, Sackgasse! Ein Plädoyer für mehr Intradisziplinarität

Es ist eine Tradition in Texten zu „Digitalität” in der Musikforschung, gleich zu Beginn festzustellen, dass diese bereits seit vielen Jahren zum festen Bestandteil des musikwissenschaftlichen Methodenrepertoires gehört. Ebenso ist es üblich, darauf hinzuweisen, dass diese „neuartigen Methoden“ ein ungeahntes Potential für unsere Disziplin freilegen können/sollen/werden, und dass es sich deshalb lohnt, in sie zu investieren. Eine andere Texttradition hingegen verweist darauf, dass der bisherige Ertrag von computergestützten Methoden allenfalls als mäßig beschrieben werden könne. Der Nachweis erstens der Neuheit und zweitens des qualitativen Zugewinns algorithmisch oder statistisch erzeugter Resultate gegenüber händisch in Eigen- und Einzelarbeit erzeugten Erkenntnissen stehe noch aus.

Challenging sources: a new dataset for OMR of diverse 19th-century music theory examples

This paper introduces the 19MT-OMR corpus that can be used to test OMR models on a diverse set of sources. We illustrate this challenge by discussing several examples from this data set.

Phantom Curves: Scientific Discovery through Interactive Music Visualization

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

midiVERTO: A Web Application to Visualize Tonality in Real Time

Totoli's Art of Lelegesan: Analyzing Sociocultural Context and Musical Content

Towards a Unified Model of Chords in Western Harmony

The line of fifths and the co-evolution of tonal pitch-classes

In this study, we determine the fundamental role of the line of fifths for the organization of tonal material by applying dimensionality reduction to a large historical corpus of pitch-class counts (ca. 1360–1940). We observe a historically growing trend in the exploitation of the fifths range, i.e. the size of segments that pitch-class distributions cover on the line of fifths. Moreover, we introduce the novel concept of pitch-class (co-)evolution.

Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform

We introduce wavescapes, a novel visualization method for tonal hierarchies that combines the visual representation of keyscapes with music analysis based on the discrete Fourier transformation (DFT) and illustrate it by analyzing compositions by Josquin, Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin, Webern, Coltrane, and Ligeti.

Discovering Tonal Profiles with Latent Dirichlet Allocation

In this study, we use the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model to discover tonal structures in a corpus of more than 2000 musical pieces from large historical range (ca. 600 years). and that the inferred topics have music-theoretically meaningful interpretations.

FAIR, Open, Linked: Introducing the Special Issue on Open Science in Musicology

A Formal Model of Extended Tonal Harmony

A semi-automated workflow paradigm for the distributed creation and curation of expert annotations

Digitizing a 19th-Century Music Theory Debate for Computational Analysis

Evidence for cognitive tonal hierarchies in cadential but not scalar contexts

A Historical Analysis of Harmonic Progressions Using Chord Embeddings

Exploring the foundations of tonality: statistical cognitive modeling of modes in the history of Western classical music

Special Issue on Open Science in Musicology

The Tonal Diffusion Model

Harmony and Form in Brazilian Choro: A Corpus-Driven Approach to Musical Style Analysis

TP3C

Transitions of Tonality: A Model-Based Corpus Study

The pleasantness of sensory dissonance is mediated by musical style and expertise

A Model Comparison for Chord Prediction on the Annotated Beethoven Corpus

Statistical characteristics of tonal harmony: A corpus study of Beethoven’s string quartets

Choro Songbook Corpus

The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets

[Review of David Huron. Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art]

Tonality and functional equivalence: A multi-level model for the cognition of triadic progressions in 19th century music

Theorie der Tonfelder und Neo-Riemannian Theory

Albert Simons Theorie der Tonfelder und John Cloughs Flip-Flop Circles im Vergleich