Publications

Corinna Keupp, Jana Klinger, Torsten Roeder, Fabian C. Moss (2026). DigiMusTh: Using pre-built tools for a static, multimodal text collection. Code4lib Journal.

Xinyi Guan, Johannes Hentschel, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2026). Studying the diachronic development of chromaticism and dissonance in western music over three centuries. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

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Adrian Nachtwey, Fabian C. Moss, Anna Viktoria Katrin Plaksin (2026). Beyond Bars: Distribution of Edit Operations in Historical Prints. Music & Science.

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Mauro Orsini Windholz, David Sears, Fabian C. Moss (2026). Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro, Western classical, and Anglophone popular music: a data-driven comparison. Brazilian Journal of Music and Mathematics.

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Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss (2026). Towards a generative model of medieval chant. COMHUM 2026.

R. Ahrendt, A. Arjmand, M. Bebak, A. Bellia, A. Caussé, C. Cavicchi, B. Dolce, D. V. Filippi, S. Gasch, M. Guido, S. Hamhuis, S. Holland, C. Levaux, E. MoredaRodriguez, Fabian C. Moss, J. Neumann, L. Pugin, G. Rossi Rognoni, C. Scuderi, P. Vendrix (2026). Musicology and European Partnerships: Resilient Cultural Heritage and Virtual Worlds. Zenodo.

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Lucas Hofmann, Craig S. Sapp, Fabian C. Moss (2026). Encoding polymeter: A corpus of Hugo Distler's «Der Jahrkreis» op. 5 in different symbolic formats. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM), 47–55.

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Mauri Orsini Windholz, Fabian C. Moss (2026). Mapping the space of harmonic cadences between Brazilian choro, jazz and Anglophone popular music. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM), 1–9.

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Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss (2026). Inferring Communities of Medieval Music Manuscripts Using Stochastic Block Models. TISMIR.

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A. Ignesti, K. Landerkin, D. Merlin, M. Winter, Fabian C. Moss, K. Voigt (2026). Developing digital preservation, edition, and analysis of sources of medieval monophony and its theory: A Report from the EarlyMuse STS in Würzburg, Germany. Zenodo.

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Shuqi Meng, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2026). Tong yun san gong theory: corpus evidence for the distinctions among three Chinese heptatonic diao. Music & Science.

Mason Youngblood, Fabian C. Moss (2026). The history of music: Approaches from cultural evolution and musicology. The Biology of Music: Interdisciplinary Insights (Oxford University Press), 130–142.

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Benedikt Henzel, Yuxuan Ding, Fabian C. Moss, Christof Weiß (2026). Studying Chord Properties from Audio: A Diachronic Analysis of Root, Bass, and Pitch-Class Content. Computational Humanities Research (CHR).

Mauro Orsini Windholz, David R. W. Sears, Fabian C. Moss (2026). Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro. OSF.

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Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss (2026). From JPEG to Tree: Analysis of Melodic Variants in the Graduale Synopticum Edition. Shaping Early Music Research in the Digital Era: Case Studies on Plainchant (Brepols).

Shuqi Meng, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2026). Diao Annotations for Heptatonic Pieces in the Chinese Collection of the Essen Folksong Database. Zenodo.

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R. Ahrendt, M. Argyriou, A. Arjmand, G. Avocat, G. Balch, F. Baldassari, M. Bebak, A. Bellia, N. Berentsen, V. Besson, V. Borghetti, A. Braud, D. Burn, C. Cavicchi, S. Cerrillo, J. Coleman, J. Cook, E. Corswarem, V. Crogiez, I. Ćurković, B. Dolce, J. Droese, M. U. Ekinci, F. Escriva-Llorca, N. Fabbri, D. Fabris, D. Fiala, R. Freedman, S. Gasch, M. González, K. Grabnar, G. Groll, A. Guevara Alonso, M. Guido, J. Hajič jr, S. Hamhuis, J. I. Haug, S. Holland, J. Iwaszko, I. Jelaca, G. Joachimiak, M. Jochymczyk, M. Kalopana, L. Kastrati, M. Kirnbauer, M. Kokole, S. Kourmpana, O. Lartillot, E. Lazorík, C. Lesemann-Elliott, C. Levaux, D. Lewis, E. Lici, S. Lorenzetti, K. Maňáková, K. Mancey, D. Marinčič, J.C. MartinezSevilla, M.M. Meašić, D. Meredith, M. Mitchell, Fabian C. Moss, J. Neumann, M. Noorduin, O. Okhrimenko, A. Oliveira, A. M. Olmos, K. M. Parke, V. Parrilla, I. Perković, A. Piéjus, E. Pietroni, A. Pister-Gainiene, A. Plaksin, G. Pranis, T. Psychoyou, A. Puentes Blanco, L. Pugin, M. Quais, R. Ridgewell, C. Riedo, K. Roger, E. Ros-Fábregas, G. Rossi Rognoni, S. Rzepka, M. Saccomano, N. Şahin, T. Schmidt, M. Siatkowska, P.A. SousaeSilva, D. Spanoudakis, K. Šter, P. Stergiopoulos, L. Stras, H. Studeničová, M.E.M. ThomaeElías, K. Tomova, M. J. de la Torre Molina, D. Rizo Valero, P. Van Kranenburg, V. Vavoulis, P. Vendrix, E. Veselovská, V. VIRGILI, V. Vrbanic, A. Whittaker, C. Wiesenfeldt, R. Wolf, E. Worthington, M. Woźniak, S. Wronkowska, I. Yordanova, J. Adler-McKean, T. Cressy, Z. YıldızAbbasoğlu, A. Caussé, E. MoredaRodriguez, C. Scuderi, D. V. Filippi, J. Lupianez (2026). COST Action EarlyMuse 2022–2026: Six Reports on Musicology in Europe. CESR–Ricercar Lab / Zenodo.

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Tim Eipert, Christoph Finkensiep, Fabian C. Moss (2026). A Bayesian Approach to Modality and Regionality in Medieval Chant. Computational Humanities Research (CHR).

Fabian C. Moss, T. Roeder, J. Klinger, C. Keupp, J. M. Roth (2025). 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. Zenodo.

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A. Arjmand, M. Bebak, A. Bellia, N. Berentsen, V. Borghetti, A. Braud, C. Cavicchi, E. Corswarem, J. Droese, M. U. Ekinci, R. Freedman, K. Grabnar, A. Guevara Alonso, S. Hamhuis, J. I. Haug, I. Jelaca, M. Jochymczyk, L. Kastrati, M. Kokole, O. Lartillot, E. Lazorík, C. Lesemann-Elliott, C. Levaux, D. Lewis, M.M. Meašić, D. Meredith, Fabian C. Moss, M. Noorduin, A. Oliveira, A.M. Olmos Saez, K. Parke, V. Parilla Lopez, A. Piéjus, G. Pranis, L. Pugin, C. Riedo, E. Ros-Fábregas, G. Rossi Rognoni, S. Rzepka, M. Saccomano, T. Schmidt, L. Stras, H. Studeničová, M. Thomae Elias, E. Veselovská, V. Vrbanic, R. Wolf, E. Worthington, S. Wronkowska, J. Coleman, B. Dolce, G. Joachimiak, A. Puentes Blanco (2025). Musicology as data science and heritage science. Zenodo.

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Fabian C. Moss, Adrian Nachtwey, Laurent Pugin (2025). The Rest is Silence: Leveraging Unseen Species Models for Computational Musicology. Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 3, 557–574.

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Jan Hajič jr., Fabian C. Moss (2025). Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology.

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A. Arjmand, C. Elliot, Fabian C. Moss, L. Hunter-Bradley, L. Catalán Báguena, L. Pugin, A. Hankinson, R. Zitellini (2025). STSM-2025: Exploring AI-Assisted Techniques for Importing and Querying RISM Data. RISM Digital Centre, Bern, Switzerland / Zenodo.

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Tim Eipert, Corinna Bongartz, Fabian C. Moss (2025). Corpus Troporum Dataset: A Digital Catalog of Trope Elements in Medieval Chant. JOHD.

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Johannes Hentschel, Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier (2025). Arcangelo Corelli – Trio Sonatas (A corpus of annotated scores). Zenodo.

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Adrian Nachtwey, Fabian C. Moss (2024). Big Data = Großes Wissen? Herausforderungen der digital-vergleichenden Korpusforschung. kontrovers – Debatten zur Musikwissenschaft.

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Fabian C. Moss, Eita Nakamura (2024). Modeling the Evolution of Harmony in Popular Music from Different Cultural Contexts. CHR 2024.

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Samuel Pereira, Giovanni Affatato, Gilberto Bernardes, Fabian C. Moss (2024). Fourier Qualia Wavescapes: Hierarchical Analyses of Set Class Quality and Ambiguity. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM2024).

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Fabian C. Moss, Robert Lieck, Martin Rohrmeier (2024). Computational modeling of interval distributions in tonal space reveals paradigmatic stylistic changes in Western music history. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

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Tim Eipert, A. Hartelt, F. Puppe, Fabian C. Moss (2024). Graduale Synopctium Dataset. OSF.

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Fabian C. Moss (2024). Transatlantic Transformations: On Neo-Riemannian Theories. Kreative Missverständnisse oder universale Kunstgesetze?.

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Fabian C. Moss (2024). Computational and digital approaches to music scholarship. PubPub (CODAMUS).

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Johannes Hentschel, Yannis Rammos, Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier (2023). An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century. EMR.

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Eita Nakamura, Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss (2023). Historical Changes of Modes and their Substructure Modeled as Pitch Distributions in Plainchant from the 1100s to the 1500s. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR 2023) , Tokyo, Japan, 13th-17th November 2023, pp. 450-461.

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Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss (2023). MonodiKit: A data model and toolkit for medieval monophonic chant. DLfM ‘23.

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Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss (2023). Corpus Troporum Dataset. OSF.

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Fabian C. Moss (2023). Vorsicht, Sackgasse! Ein Plädoyer für mehr Intradisziplinarität. musiconn.kontrovers.

Source Document English version

Fabian C. Moss, Néstor Nápoles López, Maik Köster, David Rizo (2022). Challenging sources: a new dataset for OMR of diverse 19th-century music theory examples. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS 2022).

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Fabian C. Moss, Néstor Nápoles López, Maik Köster, David Rizo (2022). 19MT-OMR: A dataset for multimodal Optical Music Recognition. OSF.

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Fabian C. Moss, Giovanni Affatato, Daniel Harasim (2022). Phantom Curves: Scientific Discovery through Interactive Music Visualization. DLfM2022.

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Daniel Harasim, Gabriele Affatato, Fabian C. Moss (2022). midiVERTO: A Web Application to Visualize Tonality in Real Time. Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM 2022), 363–368.

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Clara Bracks, Fabian C. Moss (2022). Totoli's Art of Lelegesan: Analyzing Sociocultural Context and Musical Content. FMA2022: International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, 1–5.

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Johannes Hentschel, Fabian C. Moss, Andrew McLeod, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier (2022). Towards a Unified Model of Chords in Western Harmony. MEC Proceedings 2021.

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Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier (2022). The line of fifths and the co-evolution of tonal pitch-classes. JMM.

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Cédric Viaccoz, Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2022). Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform. Musicae Scientiae.

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Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2021). Discovering Tonal Profiles with Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Music & Science, 4, 1-15.

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Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth (2021). FAIR, Open, Linked: Introducing the Special Issue on Open Science in Musicology. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1), 1-4.

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Martin Rohrmeier, Fabian C. Moss (2021). A Formal Model of Extended Tonal Harmony. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.

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Johannes Hentschel, Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier (2021). A semi-automated workflow paradigm for the distributed creation and curation of expert annotations. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference.

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Fabian C. Moss, Maik Köster, Melinda Femminis, Coline Métrailler, François Bavaud (2021). Digitizing a 19th-Century Music Theory Debate for Computational Analysis. CHR 2021: Computational Humanities Research Conference, November 17–19, 2021, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Elia Anzuoni, Sinan Ayhan, Federico Dutto, Andrew McLeod, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2021). A Historical Analysis of Harmonic Progressions Using Chord Embeddings. Proceedings of the 18th Sound and Music Computing Conference.

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Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Matthias Ramirez, Martin Rohrmeier (2021). Exploring the foundations of tonality: statistical cognitive modeling of modes in the history of Western classical music. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(5), 1-11.

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Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth (2021). Special Issue on Open Science in Musicology. Empirical Musicology Review, 16(1).

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Fabian C. Moss (2020). A computational model for note distributions in musical pieces. Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab News Blog.

Blog post

Robert Lieck, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2020). The Tonal Diffusion Model. Transactions of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval, 3(1), 153-164.

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Fabian C. Moss (2020). Tracing historical changes in the exploration of tonal space. Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab News Blog.

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Fabian C. Moss, Willian Fernandes de Souza, Martin Rohrmeier (2020). Harmony and Form in Brazilian Choro: A Corpus-Driven Approach to Musical Style Analysis. Journal of New Music Research 49(5).

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Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier (2020). TP3C. Zenodo.

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Fabian C. Moss (2019). Transitions of Tonality: A Model-Based Corpus Study. Doctoral Dissertation. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Tudor Popescu, Monja Pascale Neuser, Markus Neuwirth, Fernando Bravo, Wolfgang Mende, Oren Boneh, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2019). The pleasantness of sensory dissonance is mediated by musical style and expertise. Scientific Reports, 9(1).

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Kristoffer Landnes, Liana Mehrabyan, Victor Wiklund, Robert Lieck, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2019). A Model Comparison for Chord Prediction on the Annotated Beethoven Corpus. Proceedings of the 16th Sound & Music Computing Conference (SMC 2019).

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Fabian C. Moss, T. Loayza, Martin Rohrmeier (2019). Pitchplots. Zenodo.

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Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Martin Rohrmeier (2019). Statistical characteristics of tonal harmony: A corpus study of Beethoven’s string quartets. PLOS ONE, 14(6).

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Fabian C. Moss, Willian Fernandes Souza, Martin Rohrmeier (2018). Choro Songbook Corpus. Zenodo.

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Markus Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier (2018). The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets. Frontiers in Digital Humanities.

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Fabian C. Moss (2017). [Review of David Huron. Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art]. Music Theory & Analysis.

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Fabian C. Moss (2014). Tonality and functional equivalence: A multi-level model for the cognition of triadic progressions in 19th century music. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology - Proceedings.

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Fabian C. Moss (2012). Theorie der Tonfelder und Neo-Riemannian Theory. Master’s thesis, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

Fabian C. Moss (2011). Albert Simons Theorie der Tonfelder und John Cloughs Flip-Flop Circles im Vergleich. Zenodo.

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