cultural evolution

Comparing harmony across diverse datasets: characteristic cadences in Brazilian choro, jazz, popular and Western classical music
Sep 21, 2026 — Sep 23, 2026 Würzburg, Germany
Fabian C. Moss, M. Orsini Windholz, D. W. Sears
Conventional and characteristic cadential harmonic patterns across Brazilian choro, Anglophone pop and Jazz: a data driven comparison
Sep 7, 2026 — Sep 10, 2026 Barcelona, Spain
Fabian C. Moss, M. Orsini Windholz
Mapping the space of harmonic cadences between Brazilian choro, jazz and Anglophone popular music
Jul 2, 2026 Thessaloniki, Greece
Fabian C. Moss, M. Windholz
The history of music: Approaches from cultural evolution and musicology
Mason Youngblood, Fabian C. Moss
Conventional and characteristic harmonic sequences across Brazilian choro, Western classical music and rock: tonal harmony in a Global South context
Oct 8, 2025 12:00 AM — Oct 10, 2025 12:00 AM Aalborg, Denmark
Mauro Orsini Windholz, David Sears, Fabian C. Moss
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
Modeling the evolution of harmony in different cultural contexts
Dec 4, 2024 — Dec 6, 2024 Aarhus, Denmark
Fabian C. Moss, Eita Nakamura
Digital Paths Through History: Phylogenetic Analysis of Medieval Chants based on the Graduale Synopticum Dataset
Sep 11, 2024 8:02 AM — Sep 14, 2024 8:02 AM Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln und Universität zu Köln
Tim Eipert, Fabian C. Moss
Cross-cultural modeling of the evolution of harmony in popular music
Sep 9, 2024 8:02 AM — Sep 11, 2024 8:02 AM Durham University
Fabian C. Moss, Eita Nakamura
Medieval Chant Lineages Unlocked: Leveraging Optical Music Recognition for Phylogenetic Analysis of Gregorian Proper
Jun 28, 2024 9:30 AM — 10:00 AM Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Tim Eipert, Alexander Hartelt, Fabian C. Moss, Frank Puppe