music theory

Tonal organization in monophonic jazz solos: Putting Chord Scale Theory to the test
Sep 21, 2026 — Sep 23, 2026 Würzburg, Germany
Fabian C. Moss, Tim Eipert, Klaus Frieler
Musico Pratico: translation, digital evaluation and critical reception of Pietro Pontio’s dialogues
Sep 7, 2026 — Sep 10, 2026 Barcelona, Spain
Fabian C. Moss, J. Menke, G. Capecchi, B. Cipriani, L. Collarile, A. Nagel, T. Roeder, E. Rotem
Studying the diachronic development of chromaticism and dissonance in western music over three centuries
Xinyi Guan, Johannes Hentschel, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier
Studying the diachronic development of chromaticism and dissonance in western music over three centuries
Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro, Western classical, and Anglophone popular music: a data-driven comparison
Mauro Orsini Windholz, David Sears, Fabian C. Moss
Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro, Western classical, and Anglophone popular music: a data-driven comparison
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.
Lucas Hofmann, Craig S. Sapp, Fabian C. Moss
Encoding polymeter: A corpus of Hugo Distler's «Der Jahrkreis» op. 5 in different symbolic formats
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.
Mauri Orsini Windholz, Fabian C. Moss
Mapping the space of harmonic cadences between Brazilian choro, jazz and Anglophone popular music
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
Fabian C. Moss, T. Roeder, J. Klinger, C. Keupp, J. M. Roth
DigiMusTh
Aufbau einer offenen digitalen Sammlung historischer musiktheoretischer Texte aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum anhand von Beispielen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
Fabian C. Moss
DigiMusTh
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.
Fabian C. Moss, Eita Nakamura
Modeling the Evolution of Harmony in Popular Music from Different Cultural Contexts
Digital Choro
Exploring the potential of digitization and computational models for Brazil’s musical cultural heritage
Fabian C. Moss
Digital Choro