Computational Musicology

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

Towards a generative model of medieval chant

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?

A Bayesian Approach to Modality and Regionality in Medieval Chant

Diao Annotations for Heptatonic Pieces in the Chinese Collection of the Essen Folksong Database

Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro

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

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

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.

Arcangelo Corelli – Trio Sonatas (A corpus of annotated scores)

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

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’.

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.

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

Towards a Unified Model of Chords in Western Harmony

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

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

A computational model for note distributions in musical pieces

The Tonal Diffusion Model

Tracing historical changes in the exploration of tonal space

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

Pitchplots

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

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