Recent & Upcoming Talks

Taking a Byzantine music dataset with 400 music pieces from three music sources, we perform computational classifications into echos using three content features: pitches, intervals, and Byzantine signs (called voiced units, which represent melodic movement)

Our themed session presents three projects with this ambition in mind. We showcase examples of computational modeling for chant analysis and report the gains and losses obtained during our interdisciplinary discussions.

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 dataset.

In this tutorial-essay I will consider how we can use machine learning, specifically dimensionality reduction and embedding methods, with the CRIM corpus.

Die Debatte um den harmonischen Dualismus gehört zu den zentralen Themenfeldern der Musiktheorie des 19. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Spätestens seit Moritz Hauptmanns Die Natur der Harmonik und der Metrik (1853) war die Frage nach der Beziehung der beiden Tongeschlechter Dur und Moll ein Kernthema des Leipziger Musiktheoriediskurses und bildete in ihrer dialektischen Grundkonzeption das Fundament für daran anschließende dualistische Theorien der Harmonie. In den darauf folgenden Jahrzehnten bildete sich darüber hinaus, und womöglich nicht gänzlich unabhängig davon, zunehmend ein akademisches Selbstverständnis einer Musiktheorie heraus, welche sich anstelle von rein kompositionstechnisch-didaktischen Vorgaben durch eine stärkere Rückbindung an philosophische und naturwissenschaftliche Ansätze zu fundieren sucht. Insbesondere die Begründung der Mollkonsonanz wurde durch Bezugnahme auf physikalische Obertönen einerseits und musikästhetische Intuitionen andererseits zu einem wichtigen Austragungsfeld dieses Selbstverortungsprozesses.

In the present study, we adapt and apply numerical methods from computational literary studies and natural language processing, such as text classification and topic modeling, to the Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, a corpus of more than thirty Renaissance and Baroque Italian music theory treatises. We discuss the extent to which distant and close reading are mutually beneficial by critically evaluating the results of our analyses.

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.

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.

We present the first musicological analysis of a Lelegesan performance, a form of musical expression of the Totoli people in Central Sulawesi.

This paper disentangles the interrelations of three fundamental concepts in Chinese music theory, namely, 均 (Yun), 宫 (Gong), and 调 (Diao), and examines which scales can be derived from them. This paradigm is then applied to the analysis of a Chinese folk song corpus.

In my presentation, I will briefly introduce the underlying theoretical work followed by a tutorial on how to use the app for music analysis.

What can we infer about tonality from distributions of notes in musical pieces?

On the usefulness of pitch-class distributions for Digital Musicology

Poster presented by Fabian C. Moss