Corpus Studies

The project “Digtial Choro: Exploring the potential of digitization and computational models for Brazil’s musical cultural heritage” aims to utilize digitization and data-driven methods to develop computational models of the complex genesis of Choro, a Brazilian instrumental music genre.

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

Harmony is an essential component of Western music at least since the middle ages up to the present day. In recent decades, musicologists have engaged more and more with computational methods and created machine-readable datasets in order to study harmony on a larger scale.

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.